The Role of School Administration in Spreading the Culture of Information and Communicate Technology Usage in Jordanian Secondary Schools

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate the role of school administration in spreading the culture of information and communicate technology in the Jordanian secondary schools from the teachers' point of view, To achieve this goal the researchers developed a questionnaire composed of (42) items, distributed into five domains: the deployment of cultural digital literacy, in the school environment, principals of the school and information and communicative technology, and providing technical support and maintenance, and the provision of appropriate infrastructure, and encourage teachers to use information and communication technology. It has been confirmed the validity and reliability. The study sample consisted of 1,000 teachers, the study discoverd the following results revealed that the role of school administration in spreading the use of information and communicative technology was medium at the macro level and in all domains with the exception of the domains of principals of the school and information and communicative technology were high, the presence of statistically significant differences due to the variable of sex at the macro level and at the level domains on an individual basis with the exception of the domain of the provision of technical support and maintenance.