Impact of Emerging Technologies on the Administration of Colleges of Education in the Management of Records in Enugu State

Abstract

The study examined the impact of Emerging Technologies on the administration of Colleges of Education in the management of records in Enugu State. This study was guided by two research questions and two hypotheses. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population for the study was 874 respondents which comprised 231 College administrators and 643 non-academic staff. There was no sampling because the population was manageable. The instrument used for data collection was a 13-item self structured questionnaire titled “Impact of Emerging Technologies on the Administration of Colleges of Education in the Management of records Questionnaire (IETsACMSRQ)”. The instrument was validated by three research experts, two in Department of Educational Management and one in Measurement and Evaluation unit of Department of Mathematics and Computer Education, all from Faculty of Education, Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Enugu. To ascertain the internal consistency of the instrument, Cronbach Alpha method was used to compute the internal consistency of the instrument. The computation yielded .79 and .80 for clusters 1 and 2 respectively. The instrument had an overall reliability index of .80 which indicated that the instrument is reliable. The research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation while the hypotheses were tested with t-test statistic at .05 level of significance. The findings of the study showed that emerging technologies have impact on the administration of Colleges of Education in the management of staff and students’ records. Based on the findings of the study, the researcher recommended that the Administrators and other non-academic staff of Colleges of Education should be given orientation on how best to keep records. There should also be refresher courses for the old staff on the emerging technologies needed for keeping either students or staff records.