INTEGRATING EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR EFFECTIVE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION: THE PREDICTIVE POWER OF TECH AWARENESS AND TECH PROFICIENCIES ON TEACHERS’ JOB SATISFACTION.

The study explored integrating the emerging technologies for effective school administration in Nsukka Education Zone, Enugu State. Two research questions and two hypotheses were raised to guide the study. The study adopted the correlational survey research design. The population of the study consisted all the 7989 teachers in public-owned secondary schools in Nsukka Education Zone. The sample size consisted of 400 teachers selected using simple random sampling. Two instruments were used to collect data for the study. A researcher-made questionnaire titled “Teacher Tech Awareness and Proficiency Questionnaire, TTAPQ” were used to collect data for tech awareness and tech proficiency respectively, and an adapted version of National Association of County and City Health Officials JSS was used to collect data for teachers’ job satisfaction. The reliability of the instruments were computed using Cronbach Alpha Reliability Method. The reliability coefficient yielded for the Tech Awareness components of the TTAPQ was 0.91, while the reliability index for the Tech Proficiency cluster was 0.89. The adapted NACCHO JSS also yielded a reliability of 0.88. Face and content validation of the questionnaires were done by 3 experts from the Department of Educational Foundation, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka. While 2 of the experts specialized in measurement and evaluation, the other expert is specialized in Educational Psychology. Data collected were analysed using SPSS version 26. Pearson’s correlation was used to answer the research question, while simple linear regression was used to test the hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that tech awareness had weak positive correlation with teachers’ job satisfaction, while tech proficiency had strong positive relationships with teachers’ job satisfaction. Additionally, tech awareness and tech proficiency had strong predictive power with teachers’ job satisfaction in Nsukka Education Zone. There is need to train teachers on the use of emerging technologies for curricular and administrative solutions.

Tech awareness, Tech proficiency, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain technology, Job Satisfaction,

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