This research investigated the impact of management information system adoption, managerial skills and managerial effectiveness in secondary schools in Jos East Local Government Area of Plateau State. The study was prompted by the lack of managerial effectiveness among public secondary school principals in Jos East LGA of Plateau State. Five research questions and five hypotheses were formulated to facilitate the study. The study was anchored on the Technology Adoption Model propounded by Davies (1986). The correlational survey research design was adopted in the study. A total of 215 questionnaires were administered and 200 were returned giving a return rate of 93%. The researcher utilized three questionnaires namely: Management Information System Adoption Questionnaire (MISAQ), Managerial Effectiveness Questionnaire (MEQ) and Managerial Skill Questionnaire.
The importance of information management in the educational system cannot be over-emphasized. This is because information is lifeline of any educational organization. The extent to which a school is able to process, store and manage data determines the level of administrative effectiveness in such a school. Casual observation by the researcher has revealed that essential school records manually kept sometimes disappeared; others falsified which portrayed non-challant attitude of record officers towards their responsibility. It has also been observed that principals most often do not provide accurate number of students on enrolment during Parent Teacher Association levy account, among others. This has often threatens effective planning and administration of education for the realization of the goal of secondary level of education.
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- Anonymous,, 2023, Management Information System Adoption, Managerial Skills and Managerial Effectiveness of Public Secondary Schools in Jos East Local Government Area, Plateau State, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/1607882
