ABSTRACT Maternal health literacy has been identified as key predictor of maternal healthcare service utilization. The purpose of this study was to determine the difference in maternal health literacy between women residing in rural and urban areas of the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem district. The study employed a cross-section correlational design. Respondents included 448 women of childbearing ages residing in rural and urban areas selected through compact segment sampling. Information on res...
ABSTRACT The study assessed the use of Life-Approach method of teaching Christian Religious Studies in Senior High Schools in the Brong Ahafo Region. To be specific, the study looked at the use of the method, problems associated with its use, instructional resources available to support its use and how teachers’ instructional practices conform to the Life-Approach method. The descriptive survey design was employed to carry out the study. The purposive and simple random sampling techniques ...
ABSTRACT The underlying objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the School Guidance and Counselling services in second cycle schools in the Kwaebibirem District of the Eastern Region of Ghana. Data for the study was obtained through a survey using a questionnaire designed to elicit information on variables of interest. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used to select the student respondents while purposive sampling technique was used to select the couns...
ABSTRACT The study‟s main purpose was to investigate the fair testing practices of a test developer and teachers in a district-mandated testing programme in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The research design adopted for this study was the multilevel mixed methods triangulation design. Critical case sampling technique was utilized in selecting 3 key informants and 9 test questions. Also, the two-stage cluster sampling technique was adopted in selecting 251 teachers from 162 public JHSs. The ma...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study was to find out the critical factors influencing drug abuse among student clients of Ankaful psychiatric hospital in the Cape Coast Metropolis. Specifically, it to sought find out the causes of drug abuse, types of drugs students’ abuse, effects of drug abuse as well as measures to prevent drug abuse. The study was non-experimental in nature and the descriptive survey design was used to carry out the study. The population comprised all student clients...
ABSTRACT Multicultural issues are undeniably part of counselling. The growing ethnic inclusion in Ghanaian public universities highlight counsellors’ need to be trained to deliver proficient and appropriate service area to accommodate the needs of clients in the future. The main aim of this study was to assess counsellor multicultural competencies and find cultural-contextual factors influencing counselling as well as investigate possible association(s) among counsellors’ cultural compete...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the technological pedagogical content knowledge of Social Studies teachers in the Senior High Schools in the Kumasi Metropolis in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The study used “Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)” by Mishra and Koehler (2006) as the theoretical framework. The study was descriptive in nature. The population comprised all the 136 Social Studies teachers in the nineteen public Senior High Schools in the Kuma...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the challenges in the administration of selected rural senior high schools in the Ga-West District of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The descriptive survey design was employed to unearth the challenges there in. The purposive, census and convenient sampling techniques were used to select the district and respondents for the study. In all, the sample for the study consisted of 87 respondents, comprising 9 administrators and assistants, 36 heads of department...
ABSTRACT Poverty can be described as the lack of common things like food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water all of which determine the quality of life. Elmina, which is an ancient fishing community in the Central Region of Ghana, has fishing as a major occupation in the area. It was realized that in as much as fisher folks were doing everything possible to have good standard of living, they still found themselves in poverty. Although some were able to take care of their family’s bas...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to design and develop assessment instruments (tasks) to assess laboratory planning, performing and reasoning skills of physics students in selected senior high school topics in mechanics and optics. The accessible population was 551 SHS 3 physics students in seven schools within Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis. Two hundred and eighty nine students were sampled for the main study. Simple and stratified random sampling methods were employed in selecting the stu...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate reported influences on Ghanaian Basic School band pupil’s instrument choices, to gain an understanding of reasons expressed by students for preferring certain instruments and not others, in addition, to explore whether Ghanaian children are gender-stereotyped in their musical instrument choices. A questionnaire was developed to gather information concerning students’ instrumental music experience, family participation in band, reported...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the attitudes of girls towards science and mathematics. Two categories of girls were involved in the study, thus those who attended the STME clinic in 2004 and those who did not attend the clinic. The simple random sampling technique was employed to select a total of 223 girls from 34 JSS in the Bawku East Municipality, Bawku West and Garu-Tempane Districts. The average age of the girls was 16.4 years with a standard deviation of 1.7. Three instruments were us...
ABSTRACT In spite of the overwhelming academic performance associated with private schools especially in Ghana, they are faced with series of challenges which affect the administration of these schools. This study investigated the challenges in the administration of private Senior High Schools (SHS) in the Kumasi District of the Ashanti Region. The study employed the descriptive survey design and drew samples from all the educational circuits of the district. Questionnaire was the main instru...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to investigate female participation in secondary education in the Berekum District. Purposive and random sampling techniques were used to select a total of 136 respondents involved in the study. The instruments used were questionnaire and documentation. The results from the data collected indicated one critical fact. It was found that parents would opt to educate their boy children even though they considered that there were numerous benefits in relation to th...
ABSTRACT This research is about challenges hindering effective Technical Vocational .j Education and Training in the GES. It examines how TVET programs impact on the Ghanaian society as well as students' career. The research calls for support of stakeholders to do away with rhetoric and seek to promote quality career environment for training those who choose TVET. The study identified problems of too many students not being prepared for specific career, beside clerical duties. Most of the cha...