Investigation Of The Uses Of Technology Adoption For Promoting Effective Leadership In Addis Ketema Secondary Schools Of Addis Ababa City Adminstration

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the uses of Technology adoption for promoting effective leadership in Addis Ketema Secondary Schools. In order to attain the objective of the study descriptive survey design was used. For quantitative study, 24 principals, 80 ICT teachers, and 79 ICTCMS a total of 183 respondents were employed for the study. For qualitative study 8 participants from the school were used. In selecting samples from the study simple random sampling were used for principals, ICTT and ICTCMS but for SICTO and SPT Purposive sampling were used. Both questionnaire and interview were used for data gathering instruments. The finding of the study were teaching learning were moderately supported by information communication devices such as plasma TV,LCD, ICT laboratory but students couldn’t operate different devices as teaching materials. On the other hand the benefit of technology adoption in promoting effective leadership was not adequate. The major roles school principals played in technology integration was training teachers in use of ICT, offering teaching materials such as plasma TV, LCD, facilitating plantation of Computer and internet room, facilitating maintenance of computer. The major challenges faced for effective adoption of technology in teaching activities were absence of ICT technicians in the school, inadequate training on ICT use, interruption of internet connection and high cost of technology devices were observable challenges. Based on the study the researcher recommend that the central government, Addis Ababa City administration ,Addis ketema Sub City and Schools collaboratively work in promoting ICT for effectiveness of principals and teaching learning in the school. To alleviate the problems related to technology adoption in promoting effective leadership in schools, adequate budget should be allocated to schools and basic training on ICT skills should be timely given for secondary schools and hiring ICT technicians for school.