ABSTRACT In the context of increasing rural-urban migration, real estate development is becoming fast-emerging as the desire for shelter and individual abode increases. This development has given rise to a high volume of developmental activities. Development project have a few attributes, for example, time limit, budgetary imperatives and financial necessities, individual authoritative and legitimate conditions, intricacy and orderly qualities, so every project in itself is an interesting fra...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of code-switching as a pedagogical strategy by tutors and students of Dambai College of Education, Dambai. The study looks at the reasons behind the code-switching in the English Language classroom, when code-switching occurs in the English Language classroom and the functions of code-switching in the English Language classroom in Dambai College of Education. The study mainly employed qualitative approach in data collection, analysi...
ABSTRACT English as a Second Language (ESL) writing is a challenge to most of the learners in the Ghanaian schools. This study was carried out to investigate the concord problems among students of Gwriman Senior High School, Bamiankor in the Nzema East District. The purpose was to find out the nature and causes of these concord errors which involved subject- verb agreement in students' use of English language especially in writing. The students who participated in the study were students of G...
ABSTRACT This is a qualitative study that analyzed common concord errors in the written essays of Basic 7 pupils of Bulinga Basic School in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region of Ghana. The data used for the analysis comprised pupils’ written essays. From this, a total of 153 errors were identified. Seven error types were identified and they include: Subject verb concord errors, Determiner nouns concord errors, coordinated subject concord errors, Noun pronoun concord errors, In...
ABSTRACT Reading is an essential skill that every child of school age should acquire. The reason is that students who are able to read very well and understand what is read often perform better academically than their counterparts who struggle to read. This clearly demonstrates that there is a very close relationship between reading and academic performance. Hence the researcher’s interest to investigate how reading influences the academic performance of students, especially some first year...
ABSTRACT Takoradi Market Circle is currently experiencing poor environmental sanitation. Open spaces and gutters around the market place are littered with garbage, which in most cases clogs drains thereby creating conditions for disease vectors and posing health risks to traders. The main objective of the study was to assess the sanitation practices of traders in the Takoradi Market Circle. The convenient sampling technique was used to select 90 respondents to whom questionnaire were administ...
ABSTRACT Pension scheme providers in Ghana adopt different asset allocation (the proportion of pension funds that need to be invested into different assets like equities and bonds) as an investment strategy. For instance, SSNIT seems to adopt a 60% bond allocation (fixed income investment) and 30% equity allocation (non-fixed income investment) as an investment strategy over the last decade. This study investigates the role of fixed income in pension schemes investment in Ghana by specificall...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to analyze the school system in the Sekyere Central District of Ghana to reveal the various types of leadership styles being practiced by head teachers of primary schools and relationship between these leadership styles teachers’ level of job satisfaction. This was to determine the extent to which Democratic, Autocratic and Laissez faire leadership influenced teachers’ job satisfaction. The sample size of the study was 66 teachers. The study adopted ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to provide an understanding on how the issue of low staff remuneration is affecting the job satisfaction of the employees of Bank of Africa-Ghana. Respondents were randomly selected and structured questionnaires were distributed to them to complete over a period of one to two weeks depending on the respondents availability and readiness. At the end of the retrieval all of the questionnaires totaling 50 were used for the research as none of the questionnai...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess the factors that influence the motivation of primary school teachers in the Tamale Metropolis in the Northern Region of Ghana. A descriptive survey design was employed. A questionnaire was used to gather data. A total of 250 primary school teachers in the Tamale Metropolis were selected for the study by using the probability proportional to size and the simple random sampling techniques. The quantitative data gathered in this research was analy...
ABSTRACT Teaching profession needs to be mastered, and teachers need to be developed. Investing in teachers' professional development is important. Hence, this study aims to look into the structure of staff professional development practices in the Ghana Education Service (GES), and determine the relationship that exist between staff professional development and teachers’ performance. To achieve this, the study sought the perception of teachers towards the staff professional development pra...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find out the leadership behaviours of school heads of public and private junior high school head teachers in Tafo–Pankrono circuit Sub in Kumasi Metropolis and its impact of the students’ academic performance. The sample for the study consisted of 120 teachers comprising of 60 from public schools and 60 from private schools, together with 9 public school head masters and other 9 private school head masters. Questionnaire in the form of likert form...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted on the acoustic analysis of nasal consonant sounds in the Ewe language spoken in Ghana. Three major dialects were selected; Tɔŋu, Aŋlɔ and Eʋedome, with the purposes of investigating the acoustic properties of the Ewe nasal consonants, how the nasal consonants occurred at word positions in these dialects and identify similarities and differences existing at the dialectal levels. The analysis was made with the structure NV, VNV, NVN, CVN and NCV using mon...
ABSTRACT Recent educational reform efforts have focused on creating effective school environment as a means of improving students’ achievement. Against this backdrop, there have been a surge in concerns that claim that success of educational reforms cannot be guaranteed without paying attention to school leadership. The main objective of the study was to examine the effects of head teachers’ leadership practices on school culture using Senior High Schools in the Kwahu-West municipality in...
Contrary to the traditional modernist theories that development and progress can only be achieved through the western secular modernizing project