Implementation Challenge of School Management Information System (SMIS): (the Case of Alem-Gebeya Town Public Secondary School) Thesis submitted to the Department of Information Technology in partial fulfillment of MSc, in Information Technology

Abstract

The study helps to investigated the factors those contributed to the implementation challenge of the School Management Information System (SMIS) technology the case of Alem-Gebeya Town Public Secondary school. The produced & distributed the equipment of the innovative School Management Information Systems’ (SMIS) technological tool has been in-placed at the Alem Gebeya Town Public Secondary school, however it has disservice in the peripheral area, and due to this automating school’s daily activities have been difficulty problem in the peripheral area. The theoretical parts of the study aimed at gaining information about Personal, Internal, and External related socio-economic factors that contributing to the implementation challenges of the automated system, to identify associated effects in the study area. The selected School survey study required in the study area in order answered the following the three research questions:- (1) what are the sources of contributing factors to the implementation challenge of School Management Information System (SMIS)?; (2) How to determine the influences of factors that contributed to the implementation challenge of School Management Information System (SMIS)? and (3) how to investigate the influences of factors to address the challenges in the study area? The study adopted descriptive survey and employed both Quantitative & Qualitative research methods. In the actual research survey in probability sampling selection approach the researcher used simple random and purposive sampling techniques to administer questionnaire to each sampled respondents. Accordingly noted by (Kothari’s) determination of sample size formula 46 respondents were chosen from the total 66 academic and administrative staffs in the selected school. The researcher used questionnaires, interviews and observation as Data collection tools and techniques. The collected data were analyses on the use of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS-27.0.1) application soft ware tool on the descriptive statistics techniques like mean, standard deviation, frequency and percentages. The background of the respondents’ information presented within tabular frequency and percentage. The results of the study shown Personal, Internal, and External related socio-economic factors and the respondents’ demographical factors influenced the implementation of the automated School Management Information System (SMIS) technology in the study area. Due to this, most common mode of the school works on manual-based, which is inefficient and ineffective in the selected school. The study recommended:- the secondary school’ academic and administrative staffs should take concrete corrections on their poor perceptions toward easefulness, usefulness and availableness of the automated SMIS system. Schools should know the produced the SMIS technology surely has not usability issues (problems) on the school works, which means it is trust full for any school’s task management procedures. The automated SMIS technology would have required attempter school. Hence, the school should attempt to implement it in their task management procedures. Schools should take concrete corrections regard reporting data through using the automated SMIS technology will punish our school’s political situation (hint: finance audit, students dropout, pass & fail, bureaucratic). In addition, officials and schools should establish organized the SMIS teams/committees in school level up to officials in the study area