A Proposed Evaluation Framework for School Management Information Systems (SMIS) in secondary schools

Abstract

Many organizations decide to implement information systems in order to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their organizations, however, lack of awareness of numerous and varied challenging issues surrounding the implementation process could be problematic for the whole process. In particular lack of key success issues seems to be a serious obstacle for the management information system implementation process.The use and application of ICT is on the rise impacting positively on educational institutions and their programs, a number of secondary schools have also adopted information technology fully thus recording improved efficiency in their operations. However, the situation is not the same in all schools because others have been dissatisfied with their investments. For a school to optimally use and benefit from use of IT then it should subject its MIS to the evaluation framework proposed here, by first, addressing the following organization issues; Personnel issues, Technical system issues, Leadership issues, Organization environmental issues and Management Process issues. Furthermore, for successful MIS implementation; all the stakeholders should undergo some training on system use and that the top management should provide enough funding for infrastructure improvement and management of the system.