ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Perceived Role of Circuit Supervisors in Managing Conflicts in Basic Schools in the Kumasi Metropolis. It also examines the intensity of conflict in the circuits and the extent to which conflict management behaviours demonstrated by the Circuit Supervisors contribute to or reduce the amount of conflicts that arise in Basic Schools in the Metropolis. Information was obtained from both head teachers and teachers numbering 664 made up of 6...
ABSTRACT The study sought to explore Upper Primary and Junior High School mathematics teachers’ perceptions and practices of classroom assessment in the Gomoa East District in the Central Region of Ghana. A mixed method sequential explanatory study was undertaken using Mohamad’s (2009) conceptual framework (Classroom Assessment Process). A survey was first conducted using the Classroom Assessment Conception Instrument to gather quantitative data on the respondents (n = 289). Quanti...
ABSTRACT One of the basic grammatical rules often abused by basic school students is that regarding the use of grammatical concord. Thus, many JHS learners are challenged in the appropriate use of grammatical concord which obstructs communication. In this regard, the study explored students’ use of grammatical concord and the associated semantic effects among JHS students in the Cape Coast Metropolis. The theoretical arguments of this study are grounded in the syntactic theory, the referen...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted to assess the extent to which the practice of environmental education conforms to the theory and the influence of some background variables (gender, type of senior secondary school (SSS) attended, office held in the college and residential location) on the environmental knowledge and attitudes of teacher trainees in Nusrat Jahan Ahmadiyya (NJA) Teacher Training College, Wa, in the Upper West Region of Ghana. It was a case study conducted using questionnaire ...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of the study was to examine the nature of guidance and counselling administration, to find out the types of guidance and counselling services administered in the colleges, the role of tutors as well as the challenges associated with the administration of guidance and counselling services in colleges. The research design adopted for the study was a descriptive research design. A total of 269 respondents made up of 224 students, 45 tutors including the guidance and co...
ABSTRACT The study examined the relationship between students’ class attendance and their academic performance. To this end, four research hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Descriptive surveys were employed for the study. A special form was designed to collect data on class attendance and academic performance from 1800 students who formed the unit of analyses. Relevant data gathered were used to test 4 hypotheses. Frequencies, percentages, means, and standard deviation were us...
ABSTRACT The researcher sought to find out the extent to which the Muslim Community of the Techiman Municipality participates in the development of basic education. The population for the study comprised heads and teachers of basic schools, chiefs and elders, parents, as well as education officers of the Techiman Municipality. The distribution of the sample for the study included 100 parents, 40 basic school teachers and heads, 5 municipal education officers, and 30 chiefs and elders, makin...
ABSTRACT This study was undertaken to investigate the factors affecting the academic performance of students of Dzolo Senior High School in the Volta Region of Ghana. The lottery method of simple random technique was used to select students while snowball and purposive sampling techniques were used to select old students and parents/guardians respectively. In all 178 respondents were selected for the research. They were made up of 44 students, 35 parents/guardians and 78 old students drawn ...
ABSTRACT This study was carried out to find out the general marital satisfaction level of The Church of Pentecost leaders in the Cape Coast Area. A descriptive survey design was used for the study. A sample size of 340 was selected for the study through the stratified and simple random (lottery method) sampling procedures from a population of 1975 church of Pentecost leaders in the Cape Coast Area. Three research questions and four hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Data from res...
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study The incidence of interpersonal violence continues to occur in our society. Generally, it tends to have some cognitive, emotional and behavioural impacts on the victims. An aspect of interpersonal violence is domestic violence. Domestic violence refers to any attitude or behaviour that results in harm, injury or damage to the victim within the domestic setting. It ultimately causes the victim to live in fear of the perpetrator. Domestic vi...
ABSTRACT The study set out to investigate into the perceptions of senior staff on communication practices of University of Cape Coast administrators, considering such practices as channels of communication used by University administrators, directions of communication and barriers relating to the communication practices of administrators. The study traced the history and development of " communication in organizations. Purposive and simple random sampling methods were used in selecting the r...
Abstract A quasi-experimental study was carried out with 309 Form 3 students across 9 public Junior High Schools in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The effect of Practical Education Network (PEN)’s approach of training STEM teachers to employ hands-on activities using low-cost, locally-available resources was studied in terms of student learning outcomes, attitudes towards learning science, and interest in STEM majors/ careers. Over a 2.5-month period, the science teacher at each experim...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to find out the Jaman South District Senior High School Students’ perception of school rules and regulations. It adopted the descriptive sample survey design that involved the collection and test of hypothesis concerning the status of subject of the study. The questionnaire was the set of survey instrument that was designed by the researcher to collect data from a sampled size of 200 students drawn from a total population of 1700 from two schools; Drobo Sen...
Abstract The study examines the provisions of library facilities in Oyo state secondary schools. The population of the study consists of secondary schools in five Local Governments, that is, Ogbomoso North, Ogbomoso South, Surulere, Oriire, and OgoOluwa Local Government areas of Oyo state while 45 secondary schools were taken as the study sample. Out of the 45 questionnaires that were administered, 75.6% (34) were returned and analyzed. Simple percentage scores were employed in analyzing th...
ABSTRACT The Ministry of Education (MoE)/Ghana Education Service (GES) requires all mathematics teachers to use manipulative materials to teach mathematics in Junior High Schools (JHSs) because they have the potential to demystify learning of the subject. The study was designed to examine the use of manipulative materials in teaching mathematics among junior high school teachers in the Wa municipality of the Upper West Region of Ghana. Three instruments, namely,questionnaire, interview guide...