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Institutional management strategies and upscaling of digital literacy programmes in public primary schools: The moderating role of school leadership quality

Article scientifique 2026 Autre

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The Kenyan education system is going through a radical change with the implementation of the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) and the Digital Literacy Programme (DLP). Full DLP integration has yet to be realised in majority of public primary schools even after government distribution of digital devices, especially in Elgeyo Marakwet County where about 69.3% of the schools have not done so. This study investigates the effect of staff training and provision of digital literacy resources on the upscaling of the DLP in public primary schools in Elgeyo Marakwet County, Kenya and explores how the quality of leadership moderated these relationships. Concurrent triangulation design, a blend of quantitative and qualitative, was adopted. Public primary schools (n = 345) were the target population with a total of 120,929 eligible respondents. A random sample of 28 Head Teachers, 28 BOM Chairpersons, 307 Teachers and 384 Learners with four QASOs being purposely sampled. Thematic analysis was conducted for qualitative data and descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (SPSS. v.23) were used for quantitative data. The findings showed that the staff training (β =0.378; p < 0.05) and the provision of the DLP resources (β =0.595; p < 0.001) were important when upscaling DLP. Importantly, both relationships were significantly mediated by the quality of school leadership: Training × Leadership (β = 0.218; = 0.001) and Resources × Leadership (β = 0.267; = 0.000) with the complete model explaining 81.2% of the variance of DLP upscaling (R 2 = 0.812). Investments in teacher professional development, digital infrastructure, and school leadership development are critical for meaningful DLP upscaling in resource constrained public primary schools and need to be done strategically and persistently.

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Titus, B., Ochieng, P., Gikandi, D. (2026). Institutional management strategies and upscaling of digital literacy programmes in public primary schools: The moderating role of school leadership quality. https://doi.org/10.53378/ijemds.353361

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Barsulai Kipkorir Titus Prof. Pamela Ochieng Dr Joyce Gikandi

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