Developing an Information and Communication Technology Infrastructure Management Archetype for Effective Integration of ICT in Secondary Schools in Kakamega, Kenya

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to develop an ICT infrastructure management archetype for ICT integration in public secondary schools. The study was guided by one main research question whose objective was to establish if there were significant differences between the status of management framework for ICT integration of public secondary schools which successfully integrated ICT and those which did not succeed in terms of ICT infrastructure, Implementation of school ICT policy, School leadership and Teachers' ICT competence. The study was predicated on Appropriate Technology Theory advanced by Reijs would in 2005. A concurrent mixed methods design was used in the study which had a sample of 22 public secondary schools in Kakamega County and 356 respondents drawn from the senior management teams in the schools. A questionnaire was used to collect data, an interview carried out among the ICT champions and a sub county director of education. Observation and documentary analysis were used to triangulate the responses from the questionnaire and interviews. Study findings indicated that there was a significant difference between schools that integrated ICT as compared to those that did not in terms of ICT infrastructure, Implementation of school ICT policy, School leadership and Teachers' ICT competence. The study recommends that school leadership should formulate ICT policy to guide the implementation process of ICT integration. School leaders should provide ICT leadership in the school.