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This article reports on personality types and their influence on lecturers’ information systems utilization in pedagogy in Makerere University. Findings are drawn from analyses of data that was collected from 244 lecturers who were purposively selected from six faculties. A self administered questionnaire, standardized tests, analytical interviews and inferential analyses were done by using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Student –t test techniques. Findings indicate that as lecturers’ personality type preferences change, their attitudes and actual utilisation of information systems also change. Reasons that explain significant variation in both attitude and actual utilisation of specific MISs basing on particular bi-polar personalty type dimensions are given, as the article also suggests appropiate Information system tools and integration strategies that should be adopted in pedagogy by this oldest and biggest university in Uganda.
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Kabugo, D. (2011). Does Personality Type Affect Teachers’ Information Systems Utilization in Pedagogy? The Makerere University Lecturers’ Experience. In: Tatnall, A., Kereteletswe, O.C., Visscher, A. (eds) Information Technology and Managing Quality Education. ITEM 2010. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 348. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19715-4_17
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