APPRAISAL OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGICAL SKILLS COMPLIANCE NEEDED BY PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS INNSUKKA URBAN FOR EFFICIENT CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

Abstract

The study set to determine the appraisal of digital skills compliance by public primary schoolteachers in Nsukka Urban for efficient classroom management.  The study employed survey design. Two research questions and one null hypothesis guided the study.  The population of the study comprised all the 1058 teachers and IT staff in public primary schools.   A sampling size of 75 management teaching and 30 IT staff were drawn using purposive sampling technique.  The researchers developed instrument titled “Digital Technological Skills Compliance by Public Primary School Teachers Questionnaire (DTSCPPSTQ)”, was used for the study.  The instrument had face validity, with reliability established through a pilot test conducted using Cronbach Alpha statistics with a reliability coefficient of 0.85 for appraisal of digital technological skills compliance by public primary school teachers for efficient management; indicating an acceptable level of reliability indices. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer research questions and an independent t-test to test the hypothesis.  Some of the findings include that the ability to provide pupils with task management tools to organize their works, exploit computer games for pedagogical purposes, create screen capture tutorials. This suggests that digital technological skills compliance needed by their teachers may be effective in improving classroom management practices among primary school teachers.  Based on these findings of the study, it was recommended that integrated digital technological skills compliance in the management of primary school teachers will improve management standard of primary schools.