COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PRINCIPALS’ ICT COMPETENCIES FOR MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEM IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study ascertained the level of Principals’ ICT competencies for management of information system in public and private secondary schools in Anambra state. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided this study. The design for the study is descriptive survey. The population comprised of 682 principals from public and private secondary schools in the state. The sample size 434 was selected using proportionate stratified random technique. The instrument for data collection was Principals’ ICT Competency Test (PICTCT). The instrument was validated by experts and reliability was established using Kuder-Richardson 21 formula which yielded a value of 0.71. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions and t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of this study were that, in web based/networking private school principals were very competent while principals of public school were not, in data base management, public school principals were not competent while private school principals were moderately competent. It was also found out that there was significant difference in mean competency scores of public and private secondary school principals in web base/ networking competency. Based on the findings, it was recommended that the educational management board in the state should organize seminars, workshops and in-service training for principals of public and private secondary schools in order to improve their ICT competencies for the management of their school information system.