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 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 ...
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 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 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 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 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 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 The study sought to investigate which Local Area Network (LAN) equipment were affordable to Senior High Schools in Ghana and if some of these equipment were already available for LAN formation. The study also attempted to establish how knowledgeable were users of the LAN with respect to the cost of setting up, the annual cost of operation, and amount of money provided by stakeholders and donor agencies for funding the local area network. The descriptive survey design was used for th...
ABSTRACT The study sought to explore natural science teachers’ curriculum knowledge, selfefficacy beliefs and their classroom instructional and assessment practices in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region of Ghana. A mixed method sequential explanatory research design was used for the study. Data were collected by administering natural science teachers’ curriculum knowledge (NSTCK) and the science teaching self-efficacy beliefs (STEBI) questionnaires to 232 natural science�...
ABSTRACT This study is a descriptive survey, which sought to find out the perception of teachers about the leadership styles of male and female school heads of basic schools of the Suame Circuit of the Kumasi Metropolitan Education Directorate. It also sought to find out lessons that could be learnt from each other (male/female heads). The study further sought to find out the preference of teachers for a male or female school head, and the reasons for their preferences as well as suggestions...