EXTENT OF ADOPTION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR EFFECTIVE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION BY PRINCIPALS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ENUGU STATE

Abstract

This study examined the extent of adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for effective school administration by principals of secondary schools in Enugu State. The study was guided by three research questions and three hypotheses. The researchers adopted descriptive survey research design for this study. The population for the study consisted of the two hundred and ninety-five (295) principals of public secondary schools in Enugu State. Since the population of study was manageable, the researchers adopted census sampling. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire developed by the researchers and titled: “Extent of Adoption of Artificial Intelligence for Effective School Administration by Principals Questionnaire (EAAIESAPQ).” The validity of the instrument was determined using Cronbach Alpha, with a reliability index of 0.89 and 0.76, and overall reliability of 0.83, and it was face-validated by three research experts. The research questions were answered with mean and standard deviation while the hypotheses were tested with z-test at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study amongst others were that AI has been adopted by principals of secondary schools in Enugu State for streamlined communication to a great extent; however, the extent of adoption of AI for data analysis/decision making and resource optimization is low. It was recommended amongst others that effort should ensure training and retraining of principals on the use of AI for resource optimization and data analysis/decision making.