Influence of Electronic Record Keeping on Planning and Decision Making of Secondary School Administrators in Lagos State

Administrative functions are becoming increasingly complex and requires powerful administrative tools such as ICT for record keeping. The paper studied the perceived influence of electronic record keeping on planning and decision making of secondary school administrators in Lagos State. Quantitative research design was adopted. The target population consisted of 3,564 administrative team in the 324 public senior secondary schools in Lagos State while purposive sampling technique was used to select 285 participants. Influence of Electronic Record Keeping on Planning and Decision-Making Questionnaire (IERKPDMQ) was the instrument for data collection. Responses were analyzed descriptively using mean and standard deviation for research questions. T-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significant. The finding of the study revealed among others that secondary school administrators in Lagos State have little knowledge of electronic record keeping. Recommendations were made on the basis of this findings that secondary school administrators should consistently be trained and re-train on the benefits of keeping records electronically and how to doit.