AVAILABILITY AND EFFECTIVE USE OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (MIS) BY SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS FOR TASK PERFORMANCE IN ANAMBRA STATE

Abstract

The study investigated the availability and effective use of Management Information System (MIS) by secondary school teachers for their task performance in Anambra State public secondary schools. Four research purposes, four research questions and four null hypotheses guided the conduct of the study. Related and relevant literatures were reviewed in building the study which laid adequate foundation for the study. Descriptive research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised 6,185teachers in all the 261 public secondary schools in Anambra State. The sample of 450 teachers as respondents was used for the study. Proportionate stratified and simple random sampling was used to select the sample of the study. The instruments for data collection were a self-developed questionnaire titled: “Availability and Effective Use of Management Information Systems Questionnaire (AEUMISQ)” and “Teachers’ Task Performance Questionnaire (TTPQ)”. The instrument was validated by three experts. The reliability of the instruments was determined using Cronbach Alpha which yielded coefficient of internal consistency of 76 for effective use of MIS facilities and .91 for teachers’ task performance and was considered reliable for the study. Data was collected by administering the instrument with the help of five briefed research assistants. Data collected were analyzed using mean analysis for research questions and the hypotheses that guided the study were tested using paired sample t-test statistics at .05 level of significance. The findings showed that the available computer based MIS facilities are moderately utilized while the available non-computer based MIS facilities are highly utilized by secondary school teachers for their task performance in Anambra State public secondary schools. The study also revealed that the utilization of computer based and non-computer based MIS facilities by secondary school teachers significantly enhanced their task performance in Anambra State public secondary schools. The study concluded that MIS facilities are so many, thus, must be acquired in order to render wide varieties of services and they must be operational to accommodate the choices and needs of the teacher and students in the school for balanced development in the modern society. Based on the findings, the study recommended among others that more MIS resources should be made available and accessible to teachers and students. This will make teaching and learning more exciting with opportunities for developmental research for functional society.