EDUCATION MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN IMO STATE

Abstract

This study investigated education management information system and administration of public senior secondary schools in Imo State. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted correlational survey design. The population of the study comprised all the 395 principals in 395 public senior secondary schools in Imo State. The sample of 395 respondents was drawn through census sampling technique. The instruments used for data collection were titled Education Management Information System Questionnaire and Administration of Secondary Schools Questionnaire. The instruments were validated by two experts in test and measurement. Cronbach alpha statistic was used to determine the reliability of Education Management Information System at 0.81 and Administration of Secondary Schools at
0.82 index. The research questions were answered using simple regression and the hypotheses were tested using t-test associated with simple regression at 0.05 level of significance. The findings showed that network system and file transfer protocol predicted administration of public senior secondary schools by 34% and 38% respectively while the hypotheses showed that network system and file transfer protocol independently significantly predicted administration of public senior secondary schools in Imo State. It was recommended that Government should provide network system to non-teaching and teaching staff for the administration of public senior secondary schools.