TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION AS CORRELATE OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS MANAGEMENT IN AFIKPO EDUCATION ZONE, EBONYI STATE

Abstract

This study focused on Technology Integration as Correlate of Secondary Schools Management in Afikpo Education Zone of Ebonyi State. Two purposes, two research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated for the study. Correlational survey research design was adopted for the study. The population for this study consists of all the 817 principals and teachers in all the eighty (80) secondary schools in Afikpo Education Zone of Ebonyi State. The sample for the study consists of 579 teachers and principals from public secondary schools in Afikpo Education Zone. The breakdown has 499 teachers and 80 principals in the zone. Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used as a statistical tool to answer the research questions, while Linear Regression was used to test the hypotheses. The study revealed that there is a positive relationship between technology integration and management of school records in public secondary schools in Afikpo Education Zone of Ebonyi State and that there is a high positive relationship between technology integration and management of finance in public secondary schools in Afikpo Education Zone of Ebonyi State. Based on the findings the researchers recommended among others that principals should intensify the use of technology in school records management and that School principals and bursars should adopt computerized financial-management systems for budgeting, recording income and expenditure, preparing financial statements, monitoring transactions and maintaining financial documents.