Selected Factors and Adoption of Electronic Performance in Public Secondary School Teachers in Bomet Central Sub-County

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to establish factors hindering teachers’ acceptance of electronic performance system used as an appraisal tool. The study was guided by the following specific research objectives: To establish effects of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence and facilitating condition on teachers’ acceptance of electronic performance system. The study adopted a survey research design subjecting public secondary school teachers in Bomet Central sub-county. Krejcie and Morgan's table and a formula of sample size determination was used to select 196 respondents for the study. Purposive sampling technique was used to target principal, stratified sampling technique with be used to sample from each strata; Languages, Sciences, Humanities, and Creative Arts. Simple random sampling technique was used to sample respondents from each strata. The quantitative data collected was coded and analyzed using the Pearson’s (r) Correlation, regression analysis (R) and ANOVA, SPSS, tables and graphs. Regressing analysis revealed R squared of 0.702, implying that the variables used in this study; resource-based conditions, performance expectancy, effort expectancy and social influence jointly explained 70.2 percent of the variation in the adoption of electronic performance by public secondary school teachers in Bomet Central Sub-County. The study concludes that the selected factors adopted by this study which included resource-based conditions, performance expectancy, effort expectancy and social influence have positive and significant effect on the adoption and implementation of electronic performance by public secondary school teachers in Bomet Central Sub-county. The study thus recommends that the managements of public secondary schools in Bomet central sub county and the country at large should strive to embrace resource-based conditions, performance expectancy, effort expectancy and social influence, since they have been found to have positive effect on the adoption of electronic performance by public secondary school teachers in Bomet Central Sub-county. Keywords: Selected Factors, Performance expectancy, Effort expectancy, Social influence, Resource-based conditions, Adoption of Electronic performance system.