An Exploration of College Principals’ Technology Leadership Competency Assessment

Abstract

This paper explores leadership technology competence of college principals in six domains, (1) vision and leadership, (2) teaching learning, (3) professional practice and productivity, (4) operations and support management, (5) evaluation and assessment, and (6) legal, ethical and social issues. Competence of the principals for using technology gadgets in the domains of teaching -learning was found high whereas his/her social, legal and ethical considerations for technology use were found to be low. Most respondents valued technology competence but focused incorporating its administrative use. Furthermore, leadership training programmes may contain modules related to professional use of databases, content and data management systems in order to enhance principals use of these for day-to-day administrative purposes.

Gadgets and Messenger Applications as an Instrument for Secondary School Administration

“…A survey conducted among college principals also confirms that it is becoming more and more essential for the educational administrators to use ICT technologies for "educational assessment, support and management, ethical, social and legal issues for supporting and enriching instructional environment" [16].…”