The Role of Information Communication Technology Integration in Instructional Supervision of Secondary School Teachers in Nzaui Sub County, Makueni County, Kenya

Abstract

Information Communication Technology can have immense benefits in the running of school administration functions. The purpose of this paper therefore is to present the findings of a study whose objective was to determine the role of ICT integration in instructional supervision of teachers in Nzaui Sub-County, Makueni County, Kenya. The study adopted a descriptive study design and sampled 105 respondents using stratified random sampling technique. The respondents were principals, deputy principals deans of studies, ICT officers/ teachers, bursars, librarians and secretaries. Data were collected using questionnaires, observation and interview schedules and analyzed by descriptive and correlational statistics using Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 27. The findings of the study showed that ICT integration influences instructional supervision of teachers to a great extent (57.2% of the respondents). The Pearson’s correlation analysis model was computed and the value was 0.983 implying that there was a very strong positive relationship between ICT and the instructional supervision of teachers. The paper concludes that there is a statistically significance relationship between ICT integration and the running of school administrative functions such as the instructional supervision of teachers This paper recommends that the school principals should train the teachers on how to integrate ICT in the delivery of the curriculum and in the preparation of professional documents.