An Investigation of Contextual Factors for ICT Adoption and Utilization by Administrators and Managers of Basic Schools

Abstract

This quantitative study was carried out to find out the contextual factors that relate to ICT adoption and utilization by school administrators in a school district in Ghana. The study adopted the cross-sectional survey design, and used the census sampling technique to collect data from 69 participants, and analyzed using multiple linear regression. The study found that five out of the six factors – Attitude towards ICT; Perceived Usefulness of ICT tools; Access and Availability of ICT tools; Training and Technical Support; and Motivation and Incentives for using ICT tools – were the major contextual factors that relate to ICT adoption and utilization. Also, Motivation and Incentives for using ICT tools made the strongest unique contribution (Beta = .496) to predicting ICT adoption and utilization, when the variance explained by all other factors is controlled for. The study also found that Perceived Ease of Use was not a significant factor for predicting ICT adoption and utilization by school and administrators. It was recommended that school administrators should be given the necessary training and support, and particularly be adequately motivated, in order to concretize their ICT adoption and utilization decisions.