ABSTRACT The study was to determine how the decentralisation policy is being implemented in the Senior high schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis in the context of Decentralisation in Ghana. Specifically the study assessed the structures put in place to decentralise administration in the senior high schools. The descriptive survey design was employed to shape the study, while the purposive and stratified sampling methods were used to select a sample of 232 respondents from the ten senior hig...
ABSTRACT This study was carried out to investigate the performance of senior high school students in biology practical work in the Ledzokuku Municipality of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The mixed method approach was used and the design used was sequential explanatory design. A sample of 90 senior high school form 2 (SHS2) elective biology students randomly drawn from three public senior high schools were used for the study. The study was guided by three research questions and two resea...
ABSTRACT This project work sets out to identify and discuss issues of equivalence in legal terminology. Our goal was to identify possible methodologies of finding equivalence in French-English legal translation. We used a source text in French and the corresponding English translation which we have done as a case study. The source text is an extract from a report on the post electoral conflict in Ivory Coast entitled. “Rapport alternatif de la FIACAT et de l’ACAT Cote d’Ivoire en répon...
ABSTRACT Malaria is still a public health burden. With the recent reports of artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum coupled with the low efficacy of the RTS, S vaccine currently under a WHO-recommended pilot malaria vaccine implementation programme (MVIP), there is the need to continue identifying new targets by functionally characterizing some of the ~60% of the parasite’s genes with unknown functions. This will foster the identification of viable vaccine and possible drug targets...
ABSTRACT The study investigated public school junior high mathematics teachers’ conceptions of assessment and their practices of it. It intended to find the extent to which the teachers’ conceptions of the assessment practices reflect assessment for learning, assessment as learning and assessment of learning. It also put to bear the assessment tools that the teachers use in assessing mathematics learning outcomes. The study employed the concurrent triangulation mixed research design with...
ABSTRACT Gross motor skills have been shown to influence motor development during childhood stage. The purpose of this study is to assess the gross motor development of kindergarten pupils at Akyemansa district in the Eastern Region, Ghana. Experimental design of pretest-posttest non-equivalent groups’ method was adopted. The sample consists of eighty participants between ages 4 to7years.The participants were selected using simple random, purposive and stratified sampling techniques. Test ...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted in Aowin District in the Western Region of the Republic of Ghana. It investigated the socio-economic background of parents in relation to the academic performance of pupils. A descriptive survey design using mixedmethods sequential explanatory approach was employed for this study. A combination of simple random, stratified and convenience sampling methods were used to select 126 study participants. Questionnaire (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.82) and semi-structure...
ABSTRACT Technical efficiency of resource-use, particularly in salt production is a major concern for the level of productivity and profitability of salt miners depend on it. Thus, the study was conducted to estimate the level of technical efficiency among small scale salt producers in Elmina. The study used the entire population of 96 salt producers in Elmina. The study reveals that, Cobb-Douglas stochastic production frontier best fits small scale salt producers in Elmina. The results of th...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the role of maintenance culture of public buildings using selected institutions within the Sunyani Municipality. Simple random sampling technique was used to sample 100 staffs of the institutions that were administered with questionnaires and their top managers also interviewed. Out of the sample size of 100 respondents, 96 of them responded to the questionnaire constituting a response rate of 96%. On the maintenance culture and state of respondent’s buildings,...
ABSTRACT The judicious control and management of construction waste has been a clarion call for stakeholders in the construction industry of Ghana. Construction materials reuse and recycling has not gained popularity in the Ghanaian construction industry. The study sought to examine sustainable construction practices in Ghana, focusing on recycle and reuse potentials of waste materials using Ashanti and Greater Accra Regions as the study areas. A sample size of 184 contractors were selected f...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the use of computer simulation to improve the teaching and learning of photosynthesis in two selected Junior High Schools in Prestea Huni-Valley. The research was quasi experimental involving a pre-test and post-test. The total population of the third year Junior High School Students‟ was 2018 students. The sample for the study comprised 136 third year Junior High School students sampled from two public junior high schools in the Western Region of ...
ABSTRACT To fully participate in the Methodist Church’s singing tradition, the Singing Band in the Methodist Church Ghana was created purposely to specifically enable non-literates of the Fante community to sing in their local language—Fante. In present times, the church’s liturgy still mandates the Singing Band to perform during church service. Over the years however, the Singing Band in the Methodist Church has been greatly populated by literates. This thesis undertakes a historical a...
ABSTRACT Dagara constitute an ethnic group who occupy and span two neighbouring countries in West Africa: Ghana and Burkina Faso. They are located in the South-Western region of Burkina Faso and in the Upper-West region of Ghana. Although the Dagara live in different countries, they still share the same socio-cultural practices that define them culturally among other ethnic groups. Dagara cultural identity is their collective and dynamic cultural values held and cherished over the years. Musi...
ABSTRACT The objective of the study was to look at self-help development in relation to the role that has been played by The District Assembly in that direction. Seven research questions and three hypotheses were studied. Descriptive statistics and the Chi-Square (X2) statistic were used to analyse the data. The study took into consideration the independent and dependent variables of interest in this study. The study found out that one way of empowering the people to engage in self-help...
ABSTRACT The quality of building materials has been documented to be one of the causes of building collapse all over the world. An experimental study was conducted to determine the effect of fines (clay/silt) content in sand and water-to-cement ratio on the workability, compressive strength, tensile strength and flexural strength of concrete. A total of 270 specimens were cast and tested with varying fines content in sand of 2%, 4%, 6%, 8%, 10% and 12%; and variable water-to-cement rat...