ABSTRACT The study explored both school and community-based factors that influence implementation of the Basic school Religious and Moral Education curriculum in the Cape Coast Metropolis of Ghana. It was an exploratory survey study that adopted the sequential explanatory mixed method as a model. Six research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The population consisted of 515 people (446 teachers and 61 head teachers) with a sample size of 288. Data were gathered ...
ABSTRACT This study specifically attempted to find out whether academic performance among J.H.S 3 students, teachers and parents could be attributed to some home environmental factors such as parental encouragement, parental education, parental occupation, family size and learning facilities at home. The researcher employed the use of questionnaire and focus group discussion to gather data for this work. Out of the four hundred (400) respondents that were sampled from the five strata, three h...
ABSTRACT In the Cape Coast Municipality, there are single sex senior high schools and co-educational senior high schools. The study set out to investigate how students in the single sex senior high schools perceived the administrative functions of the heads. The purpose was to examine how the heads of the schools played their administrative roles. The research employed a descriptive survey. Purposive and random sampling techniques were used to draw a sample size of 640 from five single sex se...
ABSTRACT The prevalence of job stress among academic and general staff of universities across the globe is increasing as a result of remarkable organizational changes taking place in recent times. The University of Cape Coast, in its quest to strive for academic excellence has made performance expectations higher which the staff must contend with. It was alerted by the University management that, some staff hardly go on leave and so, casual leave had become rampant among them. This study was ...
ABSTRACT This study assessed family and marriage counselling services in Pentecostal and Charismatic churches in the Cape Coast Metropolis. The study employed the descriptive research design. Through the simple random sampling procedure, 40 churches were selected for the study. A counsellor, with the longest number of years in counselling was selected from each church. The data for the study were gathered with the use of questionnaires and analysed through the computation of descriptive stati...
ABSTRACT Many Ghanaian public tertiary institutional structures are often inadequately maintained and windows and doors and other building elements and facilities frequently show evidence of lack of maintenance and repair. Some lecture halls and office buildings of public tertiary institutions have not seen any significant maintenance or show little signs of maintenance since they were constructed, some dating back to the colonial era. Based on this, the study aimed at examining the maintenan...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to determine the self-efficacy perceptions of Social Studies teachers in relation to the teaching of Social Studies in Senior High Schools in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Descriptive survey was adopted for the study. Multistage sampling procedure was employed to select a sample of 153Senior High School Social Studies teachers. Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to analysethe data. In addition an independent t-test was employed to test f...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the comparative efficiency of computer-based instruction (CBI) and traditional teaching method in physics among pure science students of Agona Nyakrom Senior High Technical School.The experimental design was used for this study. The research population for this study comprised of teachers and students of Agona Nyakrom Senior Technical High School .Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used to select a sample of 62 respondents for the study. Both...
ABSTRACT The relatively low achievement of students in mathematics has been of concern to many parents and educators for some time now. Most research concentrated more on the cognitive factors, while the affective factors are ignored. Regrettably in Ghana, little attention is paid to the effect that students’ self-concept and intrinsic motivation have on mathematics achievement. Questionnaires were administered to a convenience sample of 89 students together with the end of first semester r...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to use model to teach double indicator titration at the SHS. Five research questions were formed to guide this study. This study used action research design using quantitative approach. Purposive and simple random sampling procedures were employed to select one hundred and seventy-five (175) participants for the study. Classroom observational checklist and questionnaire were the instruments used to collect data in the study. Descriptive statistics tools ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to explore parental involvement in the education of their children with hearing impairments at Mampong Demonstration School for the Deaf in the Eastern Region of Ghana. A case study design was adopted for the study. Seventy-five participants were purposively selected for the study. A five-point Likert scale questionnaire was used to gather data for the study. Data was analyzed using tables, simple percentages and frequency counts. Findings of the study r...
ABSTRACT The administration of Secondary Schools today, according to Alani (2000), can no longer be reduced to rule-of-thumb since schools are becoming increasingly complex. The purpose of the study was to identify the challenges faced by administrators in the administration of Senior High Schools in the Kpeshie Sub Metropolitan Education Directorate of the Accra Metropolitan area. In all, 5 day and boarding public Senior High Schools were used in the study. The schools were purposively selec...
ABSTRACT The objective of the research was to examine the factors that contributed to the few number of women leaders in educational management in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region. The research was a descriptive survey and data was gathered by means of questionnaires and documentary sources. The population from which the sample was taken was made up of the entire population of teachers and educational administrators in the District. A total of 150 respondents were drawn from Prima...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find out the state of teachers’ participation in senior high school decision-making in the Kadjebi District. Questionnaires were used to collect data from 84 randomly selected professional teachers on the level of teacher participation in school decision-making, the school decision-making areas of teachers’ participation, the ways of involving teachers in school decision-making, the teachers’ demographic characteristics associated with their par...
ABSTRACT The major objective of this study was to find out the challenges facing the transitional vocational placement and training of visually impaired students at Akropong School for the Blind in the Akuapem – North District of the Eastern Region. Descriptive research design was used for the study. One hundred and fifteen (115) students were selected using simple random sampling technique. All the forty- five (45) teachers of the school were purposively chosen and twenty (20) parents were...