ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess perceptions of the image of Home Economics held by teachers, parents and students of Senior High Schools in the North Tongu District. This was achieved through examining their awareness and knowledge of the content of the Home Economics programme and any differences that existed in the perception of both Home Economics and non Home Economics students by gender. A descriptive survey was employed to carry out the study. A total of 691 respondent...
ABSTRACT This study assessed business students’ preference for cooperative learning in the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. The study was a quantitative research which adopted the descriptive cross-sectional survey. In all, 400 Level 300 business students were selected using the multi-stage sampling technique. These students were Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) and Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) students. Data was collected on a 5-point likert scale questionnaire ranging from strongly di...
ABSTRACT The intention of this study is to improve the Christian Religious Studies curriculum. It presented difficulties encountered in order to support implementers with findings from the field. Many of such research have used traditional models for evaluation: Objective based models, Goal free evaluation models, experimental evaluation models and many more. The Context Input Process Product (CIPP) evaluation model was used in this study to evaluate the Christian Religious Studies curriculu...
ABSTRACT This is an evaluative study of the implementation of the programme of instruction developed for social studies in the teacher training colleges (TTCs) of Ghana. Data obtained through interviews with principals, questionnaires administered to and discussions held with tutors and students as well as field observation have been combined with material from documentary sources. A conceptual framework put forward for the project emphasises an 'illumino-process' evaluation of a curriculum w...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to find out whether mathematics ability influences Senior High School students’ academic performance in Financial Accounting in the Central Region of Ghana. Descriptive survey design was employed by using quantitative and qualitative methods in obtaining data. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used to select a sample of 370 Financial Accounting students and 13 Financial Accounting teachers respectively. In-depth interviews, focus gro...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to examine teachers’ and students’ perception of adolescent pregnancy and its relevance to the social studies curriculum in the Komenda- Edina-Eguafo-Abirem Municipality of the Central Region of Ghana. The study was a cross-sectional survey. Simple random sampling procedure was employed to select 40 JHS, 300 third year students and 62 social studies teachers for the study. Questionnaires were used to solicit responses from both students and teachers. The S...
ABSTRACT The investigation assessed the challenges inherent in the implementation of the Religious and Moral Education programme(RME)in some selected teacher training colleges in the Eastern and Volta Regions of Ghana. The descriptive survey design was employed to unearth the challenges there in. The simple random sampling, purposive sampling and the convenient sampling techniques were used to select the regions, colleges and respondents for the study respectively. In all, the sample fo...
ABSTRACT The investigation assessed the challenges inherent in the implementation of the Religious and Moral Education programme(RME)in some selected teacher training colleges in the Eastern and Volta Regions of Ghana. The descriptive survey design was employed to unearth the challenges there in. The simple random sampling, purposive sampling and the convenient sampling techniques were used to select the regions, colleges and respondents for the study respectively. In all, the sample fo...
ABSTRACT Accounting teachers‟ ability to identify the learning difficulties of the ir students is a crucial part of teachers‟ Pedagogical Content Knowledge . Accounting is a subject that most students have difficulty in learning, which is exhibited in their performance. Timely identification of the learning difficulties of accounting students by accounting teachers in order to provide timely intervention measures will be of much importance ...
ABSTRACT Thestudy investigated the oncerns of SHS Social Studies teachers about the implementation of 2010 Social Studies Curriculum in the senior high schools (SHS) in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis of the Western Region of Ghana. Data were gathered from 70 Social Studies teachers in 11 public Senior High Secondary/Technical Schools through the use of questionnaire with a reliability coefficient of .75 and interviews. Analysis of academic background o...
ABSTRACT The study sought to track the concerns of primary school teachers in the Cape Coast Metropolis about the 2007 educational reform in Ghana within the framework of the Stages of Concerns dimension of the Concerns-Based Adoption Model developed by Hall, Wallace and Dossett in 1973. Data were gathered from three hundred and sixteen (316) private and public school teachers in the Cape Coast Metropolis of the Ce...
The study examined the effects of peer tutoring and think-pair-share instructional strategies in improving students’ academic performance in Chemistry. It also compared the effects of peer tutoring and think-pair-share strategies in improving students’ attitude towards Chemistry. These were with a view to highlighting which of the teaching strategies that can improve students’ academic performance in Chemistry. The study adopted a non-equivalent pre-test, post-test control group...
This paper attempts to discuss the role of the Social Studies teacher in the post modern world, a way out of insecurity in Nigeria. The reality of the post modern world is taking its toll on the school system as well as in other segment in Nigeria and else where around the world. The influence of post modernity in society requires an appropriate approach in learning in school subjects and teachers also need to be exposed to the need of preparing pupils to face the challenges impose by post mo...