ABSTRACT Adolescents’ stage is usually characterized by a lot of influence in action taken. What to eat, how to eat, when to eat are mostly influence by several factors by the adolescent. Adolescents select and practice a particular eating behaviour base on certain influences when they leave normal environment for places like school. Therefore, the study is aimed at assessing the influences of adolescents’ food selection practices and its impact on their health.The target population...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to determine the roles of teachers and head teachers in the supervision of teaching practice students in the Kumasi Metropolis. The study utilized descriptive survey design. Quantitative research approach was used for the study. The study employed purposive sampling technique to recruit 160 head teachers and teachers at the selected basic schools. The instruments used for this research was questionnaires. Statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) ve...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine the time wasters among students in Okuapeman Senior High School. The research design employed was descriptive survey design. The target population comprised 1400 students. Purposive sampling was used in selecting students from the School. A sample of 306 students were used for the study. Questionnaire was used to collect data. The study was based on three main research questions. Result of the data analysis gave an acceptable Cronbach’...
ABSTRACT The research work looked into the teaching of oral English in S.D.A Senior High School, Akyem Sekyere. It discussed related works and the topic, the importance of oral English and motivation for the teaching of oral English, the number of times teachers teach the subject and how familiar they are with the topics under oral English. The work also discussed among other things students’ reasons for not taking this aspect of the English language seriously. They attributed this l...
ABSTRACT This study is about students’ indiscipline in basic schools with a case study of Prempeh Basic School in the Kwadaso Sub-Metro in Kumasi. The purpose of the study was to find out and describe the role of the teacher in managing students’ indiscipline. To achieve this purpose, factors relating to teachers that lead to students’ indiscipline were determined by addressing the following research questions; (1) what are the teacher factors that can help in managing students�...
ABSTRACT This research focuses on the language of alcoholic advertisement texts in Ghana. The purpose was to investigate the linguistic features embedded in alcoholic advertisement texts as well as their communicative functions. Picture taking, interviews and snapshots of televised alcoholic advertising texts were used for data collection. In all, ten pictures and three people were interviewed. The Layered meaning theory (Clarks, 1996) was used for the qualitative analysis. The findings reve...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of idiomatic expressions by the youth of Ho in the Volta Region of Ghana. Methodologically, the study was a descriptive survey that involved the use of interview and observation to collect primary data from the youth and adults in the various communities of Ho. A sample of thirty-two (32) individuals (youth and adults) and four (4) youth groups were used for this study. Purposive sampling technique was used by this researche...
ABSTRACT The objective of the study was to examine conflict management strategies of senior high school heads in the Kwabre East Municipality. Four research questions were raised to guide the study. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. Mixed-method approach was employed. The study involved head teachers and teachers. Purposive sampling was used to select head teachers. Teachers were selected through simple random sampling technique. Data were collected using question...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of female head teachers’ leadership behaviour on teacher efficacy in selected public basic schools in Sagnerigu District in the Northern Region. The study used descriptive research design. Questionnaire with closed-ended items were used to obtain information for the study. The targeted population for this study comprised all the 17 female head teachers and 170 teachers who have females as their heads in the public ba...
ABSTRACT The survey focused on the perceptions of the people in the Winneba Municipality about same-sex relationships in Ghana. The major issues the research investigated were the general views or perceptions the people have about homosexuality, the people’s support for the promotion or curtailment of same-sex relationships in Ghana, the people’s support for or against the legalization of homosexuality in the country and the influence of religion on the people’s attitude towards ...
ABSTRACT Socio-cultural beliefs and practices affect pregnancy outcomes in most societies in African communities. The association of severe malnutrition to pregnant women is inadequate intake of nutrients due to taboos/superstition, lack of knowledge and practice of pregnant women on appropriate feeding practices. The study aimed at assessing the socio-cultural practices on nutritional health of pregnant women in Ejisu Municipality. The specific objectives were to identify the exten...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate the reading difficulties among Class 6 pupils of Kolbure Primary School in the Tempane District of the Upper East Region of Ghana. It followed the qualitative research design approach. To obtain a sample of the population for the study, the researcher adopted the simple random sampling technique, selecting 15 participants for the study. He adopted this technique because of the similar characteristics exhibited by the pupils. Three research instrumen...
ABSTRACT The study investigated supervisory practices of heads of senior high schools at Savelugu Municipal in the northern region of Ghana. The purpose of the study was to find out supervisory practices of the heads. The study focused on areas such as personal support, workshops, in-service training and engagement in school practices, provision of assistance in teaching, problems in supervision and factors to improve supervision. Descriptive survey was used in the study. Mixed-method�...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of head teachers’ leadership style on the academic performance of public junior high schools in the Atwima Nwabiagya District of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The objectives of the study were to determine the leadership styles of head teachers in Junior High Schools, find out the perceived impact of leadership style of head teachers on teachers in the teaching and learning outcome in Junior High Schools and to examine the per...
ABSTRACT The ultimate aim of the study was to explore the causes and its influence of truancy on the academic achievement of JHS students at the Sanguli circuit of schools in Saboba district of the Northern Region of Ghana. After the review of the related literature, the statement of the problem and the purpose of the study were properly looked at. The objectives and research questions were also properly formulated for the study. The descriptive survey design was adopted. The target...