Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Competency as an Integral Factor in the Improvement of the Head Teachers` Effectiveness in Record Keeping and School Management

School records are veritable tools that aid the smooth management of the day to day activities of the school. Records give direction to the prompt derivation and computation of all education indicators for evidence based planning, monitoring, evaluation, and administration as well as national and global reporting competitiveness. School records are essential part of school administration as it generates a range of statistics on the entire school activities. These records can also be used to inform the parents and the communities about the school performance, enable school generate information for the monitoring of the education system and also, help in planning and decision making process at the policy level. Despite its enormous importance however, records are poorly kept and managed in most of the Nigerian schools. Poor school records weaken effective school administration which leads to inefficiencies in education management and policy implementation at all levels of education. It is in attempt to address this existing problem of poor record keeping habit by school administrators that this paper haven reviewed researches on same/similar topic conducted elsewhere and the writer’s personal experiences and observations examined how ICT competency of head teachers and school managers will tend to improve their efficiency and effectiveness towards record keeping. The paper also revealed certain factors militating against effective use of ICT by those school heads and managers. Recommendations on how to make the head teachers and school managers become more competent in the use of ICT for effective record keeping and school management was then proffered.