ABSTRACT Research has shown that social studies teachers have been apprehensive about modifying instruction to incorporate technology. The study focused on Social Studies teachers’ knowledge and usage of ICT in teaching Social Studies in Junior High Schools in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region of Ghana. The study was hinged on Technology Acceptance Model developed and used concurrent triangulation design within the mixed method approach. Census sampling was used to select all ...
ABSTRACT Support for media literacy education has grown significantly in recent years with teachers and students advocating for its inclusion in the curricula. However, there are manifest differences in the ways people use media in teaching and learning of school subjects as well as in the level of their competence. This study assessed media literacy in teaching and learning of English Language in Basic Schools in the NsawamAdoagyiri Municipality. In order to achieve the purpose of the study...
ABSTRACT In every aspect of human life, language is an important form of communication and that is one of the skills that the school system seeks to develop. Ghana as multilingual country has a challenge to meet due to the numerous languages that students are exposed to. This makes it difficult to effectively learn the target language. In order to communicate well with students in the English language classroom (L 2), teachers code-switch for several pedagogic reasons. This study sought to ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to ascertain primary school teachers’ knowledge of differentiation, assess teachers’ pedagogical practices of differentiation, teachers’ assessment practices of DI and to determine how supportive the primary schools’ learning environments are of differentiation. A mixed method survey research design was employed to investigate Ghanaian primary school teachers’ knowledge and practices of Differentiated Instruction. A sample of 100 primary school teachers f...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the headteachers instructional supervisory styles and job performance of Social Studies teachers in some Public Junior High Schools in Kassena-Nankana Municipality in the Upper East Region of Ghana. The study was grounded in Glickman, Gordon and Ross-Gordon‟s (1998) developmental supervisory theory. The study adopted the cross-sectional design. The population covered all headteachers in public Junior High Schools in KassenaNankana Munic...
ABSTRACT The scourge of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has almost overwhelmed mankind of late and given a lot of sleepless nights to almost everybody. For over thirty years after the first case was diagnosed, scientists have not been able to find an antidote to help halt its spread. This dissertation sought to examine the attitudes of students of second cycle institutions towards HIV and AIDS prevention. The research work was carried out in K...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of instructional technology on student comprehension and retention levels for traditional and non-traditional student populations. The subjects in this study consisted of two teacher colleges of education and three senior high school students who had been exposed to instructional technology during at least one of the courses taken at their secondary/postsecondary institution. The sample consisted of 90 males and 56 females. The s...
ABSTRACT This piece of work sought to find out the incidence and impact of bullying on students in the two second cycle schools in the Bawku Municipality namely; Bawku Senior High School and Bawku Technical Institute. The researcher looked at the physical, psychological, personal-social, and academic impact of bullying on students. A mixed study design was used. It comprises partly quantitative and partly qualitative aspects. A questionnaire was first administered on students and was follow...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of the study was to explore the major problems faced and the support received by students studying in Ho Polytechnic in Ghana. The design for the study is primarily descriptive in nature and so the descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. Years 2 and 3 students of Ho Polytechnic formed the population of the study. The number of students used for the study was 300. The instrument used for the study was a questionnaire. In selecting the students the strat...
ABSTRACT This qualitative study, using the grounded theory method in data collection and analysis, explored the socio-cultural context of child labour in fishing communities of Cape Coast Metropolis based on the lived experiences reported by 10 purposively and theoretically selected basic school students who engaged in child labour activities from two schools in fishing communities of the Cape Coast Metropolis. Six research questions guided the study. The trustworthiness of the data was gro...
ABSTRACT The study assesses the competency base of the teacher trainee in the writing of composition in Ghanaian language. Data were collected from sampled elective Ghanaian language teacher trainees from four Colleges of Education in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The descriptive survey design was used for the study. Questionnaire, teacher trainees’ class exercises and structured interviews were the instruments used to collect the data. Frequencies and percentages were used to analyse the d...
ABSTRACT This study explored students’ and teachers’ perceptions of integrated science topics in the JHS (1-3)integrated science syllabus. It compared the perception of students’ with that of their teachers’ with the hope of ascertaining whether the perceptions do exist.The study also explore if gender and school location had any bearing on the performance of the students in relation to integrated science topics. The survey method was employed where questionnaires was administered to ...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to find out the perception of tutors in technical institutions on leadership roles that enhance the effectiveness of the Principal. One hundred and thirty-eight (138) tutors from four technical institutions from four regions in Ghana (Ashanti, Central, greater Accra and Western Regions), running full – time and apprenticeship model training programmes, were chosen. The descriptive survey approach was adopted with a purposive sampling method employed in the...
ABSTRACT This study was a descriptive survey designed to assess the guidance programme being offered in Wesley College of Education and suggest ways of improving it. The specific guidance services under study were Information and Counselling Services. The views of 200 students and the college counsellor were gathered by means of a self-designed questionnaire consisting of thirty Likerttype items. The data was then subjected to frequency and percentage analysis to answer the research question...
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...