Critical Success factors for the adoption of e-administration in South African Schools

Sello Nicolas Mokwena

Abstract


School Administration and Management System (SAMS) has the potential to improve school administration and management, however there is still little research and literature on this aspect of ICT in Education. In South Africa, Education Management Information Systems (EMIS), has been developed to assist with education information needs encompassing education planning as well as implementation of relevant education policies at central government level. At school level South African (SA) SAMS is the basic standard for all school data collection to improve and standardize data collection. The aim of this study was to explore and describe the critical success factors for the adoption of SA-SAMS by school personnel in South Africa. The data collected by means of a survey conducted in 51 Star Schools in Limpopo Province of South Africa was analysed by means of Structured Equation Modelling. The results indicated that social factors and facilitating condition are critical in the adoption of SA-SAMS; the training offered to teachers was not tailor-made for this specific group of rural teachers. Although teachers believed SAMS was useful they are not using it as a result of how it was implemented.

Keywords


SAMS, Social Factors, EMIS, School Administration, School Management, ICT in Education, TAM, Facilitating conditions, Social Factors

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