ABSTRACT The study was conducted to investigate the level of job satisfaction among senior staff of the University of Education, Winneba, and find out ways to promote their job satisfaction in the university. The research design used for the study was descriptive survey. A total sample of 155 senior staff was selected for the study. Simple random technique, using the lottery method was used to select the respondents from each campus. The instrument used for gathering data was the questionna...
ABSTRACT The aim of the study was to ascertain the availability and utilisation of local area network in Senior High School in the Central Region of Ghana. The purposive sampling was used to select three hundred and eighty students, ICT teachers and assistant headmasters of selected schools. Data were collected from students, ICT teachers and assistant headmasters for analysis. The study revealed that students, ICT teachers and school administration were dissatisfied with the availability of...
ABSTRACT Considering the fact that teacher turnover rate is very high in the country, this study sought to find out the factors that influence the recruitment and retention of basic school teachers in the Akatsi District ofGhana. Purposive and stratified sampling techniques were employed to select subjects for the study. A questionnaire which was the main instrument was used to collect the data. A documented data which indicated the turnover rates of male and female teachers from 1998/99 to ...
ABSTRACT Discipline among students is an essential tool for effective teaching and learning in an educational institution. However, dealing with responsible social behavior among students in Senior Secondary Schools has been a major challenge for educational administrators in Ghana. The study investigates the courses, nature and levels of indiscipline in Mfantsiman Girls Secondary School, Saltpond, Adisadel College, Cape Coast and Ghana National College, Cape Coast. To achieve this objectiv...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find some of the causes of poor study habits among final year students of the 3 health training institutions in the Bolgatanga Municipality. The target population for the study comprised of all final year students of the health training institutions of the Bolgatanga Municipality totaling 240. The sample size was made up of 42 males and 18 females numbering sixty (60). The research design for the study was the descriptive sampling survey and the ins...
Abstract Children fitted with hearing aid, without appropriate placement on aural rehabilitation always find it difficult to benefit maximally from the use of such assistive listening device as well as experiencing difficulty in producing intelligible speech sounds. Therefore, most of them become discouraged and not interested to undergo aural rehabilitation. Thus, this study examined the effect of auditory training (AT) and aided language stimulation (ALS), moderated on onset and degrees of ...
ABSTRACT The study assessed the quality in education of private senior high schools in the East Akim municipality of Ghana. The research design used for the study was descriptive survey. A total sample of 207 including 9 headmasters, 98 teaching staff and 100 prefects, was selected for the study. All the 9 school heads and 100 students were purposively selected. The simple random sampling technique was used to select the teachers. The instrument used for gathering data was questionnaire. The...
ABSTRACT The purpose for this study was to investigate the strategies adopted by Physical Education (PE) teachers to manage students’ diversity in Mixed Ability Classes (MAC) and also to examine the factors that influence teachers’ choice of teaching strategies for MAC during instruction as well as the challenges teachers encounter in teaching MAC. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The entire population of 135 trained PE teachers was purposively sampled for the study. ...
ABSTRACT The research work took place both in Kumasi and Yamfo in the Ashanti and BrongAhafo Regions of Ghana respectively. It consists ofstudying the AdolVa musical type of the Akan and blends the musical elements drawn from it with scholarly compositional techniques as a way of contributing to African art music The work looks at the repertoire of AdolVa, and critically examines its compositional techniques and utilizes the resources to compose new music. This new music preserves the tradit...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine the level of knowledge and attitudes of chopbar workers towards food safety. The study also examined the food safety practices among chopbar workers in KEEA Municipality and find out the relationship between chopbar workers’ food safety knowledge and food safety practices. Cluster sampling and purposive sampling procedures were employed to sample 147 chopbar workers in the Municipality to respond to a researcher-designed instrument. Pie cha...
ABSTRACT An experiment was designed to find out which of relaxation and systematic desensitization was more effective in the management of speech anxiety in Student teachers. A third measure of remediation - cognitive restructuring - was introduced as a control in this study to monitor the effect of cognition on speech anxiety. Its effectiveness was also compared with the other two management measures. A J4 x 2 factorial design was used in this study, The samples were taken from a group of 10...
ABSTRACT The study evaluated the teaching and learning of history in Senior High Schools in the Central Region of Ghana. Specifically, the study focused on the methods of teaching the subject, learning styles of students, teachinglearning resources, assessment instruments and teachers’ and students’ perceptions of the subject. Data were collected from documents, through the use of questionnaire and observation of classroom lessons. The internal reliability co-efficient of the questionna...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at investigating the attitude of basic school mathematics teachers towards instructional supervision in Cape Coast Metropolis. The population for the study comprised the basic school mathematics teachers, headteachers and circuit supervisors in the Cape Coast Metropolis. A total sample size of one hundred ninety-eight (198) was used. This was made up of 168 teachers, 24 headteachers and 6 circuit supervisors. The sampling techniques employed to select the schools and ...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the contribution of Action Aid International Ghana (AAIG) in the provision of quality basic education in the Upper East Region. The study seeks to identify the extent to which AAIG has contributed to infrastructural development, teachingllearning materials (including textbooks), staffing, in-service training and Girl-Child Education. The study also seeks to identify how Action Aid is promoting the REV and Shepherd school schemes as alternative models in educati...
ABSTRACT This study was carried out to assess the effectiveness of orientation and mobility (O&M) training programme for pupils with visual impairment in basic schools in Ghana with particular reference to Akropong and Wa Schools for the Blind in the Eastern and Upper West Regions respectively. The study employed qualitative approaches in getting the relevant data using the descriptive qualitative design to satisfy the purpose and objectives of the study. In all, 18 respondents were selected ...