Information Communication Technology & Students’ Discipline

Abstract

Discipline management is critically important in learning institutions; hence the research article seeks to assess the influence of Information Communication Technology (hereafter, ICT) in enhancing students’ discipline management in Nyandarua North sub-county. Four objectives guided the research study: to establish the influence of ICT on students’ attendance discipline, prep time discipline, students’ class properties discipline and students’ examination discipline. It is anchored on behavioral theory, as guided by Kounin’s model of 1976 ‘with-it-ness,’ which describes the teacher’s alertness on the class ongoing at all times; and Epstein’s theory of 1991 - on overlapping sphere of influence, and which distinguishes an interdependent view of school-family-community influences - from what could be considered as a separate view of influence. The conceptual framework shows application of ICT indicators and the discipline managed, and the intervening variables. The research article employed a mixed method approach. The data was analyzed using thematic analysis techniques and its findings are presented analytically. School principals who had integrated ICT were key targets of the research; and a sample of ten schools was purposefully selected. Its finding is that ICT integration influenced discipline management positively in Nyandarua North Sub-County. The study recommends a further study to be carried out by using inferential statistics.