ABSTRACT Teachers in the classroom portray varying degrees of expectation levels in terms of students’ achievement. The way that a teacher feels toward the ability of a student can greatly impact the academic growth of that student. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between teachers’ expectations and students’ achievement in junior high schools in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region of Ghana. The study was a correlational one. The unit of analysis...
ABSTRACT The Financial Administration of Heads of Senior High Schools is an issue that needs critical examination. The study aims at investigating the extent to which effective Financial Administration goes on in the schools. It is hoped that the findings of the study will guide some heads of Senior High Schools who find it difficult to carry out effective financial administration of their schools. The study was carried out in eight schools The sample for study was made up of 104 respondents ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to find out the process of recruitment of teaching staff and the factors that militate against the recruitment and retention of this category of staff in Tamale Polytechnic. The research design considered most appropriate for this study is the descriptive design. This is because it gives an opportunity to the researcher to get the opinion of the population concerning some issues of interest and relevance to the study. A sample size of 28 was used from a t...
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 63...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine conflict management processes of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). It was to find out the sources, types of conflict, in the Central Administration, their intensity, the importance heads of department attached to conflict prevention processes and the extent to which conflict management behaviours shown by heads of department contributed to or reduced the amounts of conflict that arose in the central administration...
ABSTRACT The school realizes its objectives through a complex system involving policies and programmes, and supporting services, building and equipment and interactions with the community. The school organization is a service-providing set up. The teacher being an important agent of education cannot be spared in delivering the teaching services without which the school would be non-existent. The teacher is therefore indispensable in the school organization. When a nation expands its education...
ABSTRACT Indiscipline in schools is a major concern of parents, teachers, students and all those who are involved in the education of the child. The spate of indiscipline in schools, in the home, at work places and on the roads is a concern of everybody in Ghana. The campaign against indiscipline by the vice-president of Ghana goes to confirm that there is indiscipline in the country. The study investigated the perceptions of teachers and students on indiscipline in Senior Secondary Schools w...
ABSTRACT Multigrade schools refer to schools which combine different classes in the same classroom setting. The Asunafo North District in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana has 17 of such schools. Multigrade schools become necessary where teachers are in short supply or where enrolment figures are so low that they cannot justify the appointment of teachers for separate classes especially in the remote and hard-to-reach areas. The study sought to have an in depth assessment of multigrade schools ...
ABSTRACT The purpose ofthe study was to examine the roles past students play in some selected second cycle schools some years after completing school. The study also examined the perception ofschool heads and their assistants on the activities of Past Students' Associations in their schools as :-veil as problems they encountered when dealing with such interest groups. The views of Assistant Directors and Directors of the Municipal and Regional Education Directorate were sought. The study was ...
ABSTRACT Supervision reports from Tarkwa-Nsuaem Education Directorate showed that pupils in basic schools in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality were not sufficiently numerate, literate, nor able to solve problems that children at their grade levels were expected to solve due to unsatisfactory performance of teachers. The situation had resulted from lack of facilities for teaching and learning, inadequate staff motivation, ineffective supervision, lack of stakeholder support and co-operation, and ...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate the social system components of school climate that existed in high and low performing junior high Schools in the Ho Municipality and their relationship to students’ academic performance. A correlational research design research was used. Two sets of self-reporting questionnaires was used for teachers and headteachers with a reliability coefficient of .97 and .92 respectively. Data on student achievement were obtained by using as proxy the Basic Edu...
ABSTRACT This study examined the perceptions of teachers and students of school farm interventions by an agricultural education NOD known as Development Assistance to School Farms (DASFA). The population for the study was students and teachers who have participated in school farm activities supported by DASFA. Students of the Agro-Youth Clubs at Cape Coast School for the Deaf and Jukwa Senior Secondary School and their teachers, patrons, and farm assistants were purposively sampled because of...
ABSTRACT The study which used descriptive survey design was basically to assess parental support to the girl child education in Kwabre District of the Ashanti Region. A sample of 302 girls and their entire parents which formed 22% of the total population from 11 public schools in the Ntonso circuit were used for the study. The girls were randomly selected whereas their parents were purposively sampled. The instrument used for data collection was a set of questionnaires with an average reliabi...
ABSTRACT The study intended to investigate the effects of teachers’ leadership roles on students discipline in Agona Swedru Municipality senior high schools. The research was conducted in Agona Swedru Municipality in Central Region of Ghana. The cross-sectional survey design was adopted for the study. Questionnaire was the main data collection instrument. All the four senior high schools in the Agona Swedru Municipility participated in the study. The sample for the study was 281 respondents...
ABSTRACT Time may be the most valuable thing one deals with, and it can neither be bought nor recaptured. However, significant amount of this valuable resource is wasted by staff of institutions due to the activities of time wasters. The purpose of the study was to find out the existence or otherwise of time wasters and determine their perceived impact on the time management practices among staff of the district education offices in the Central Region. The time management control measures wer...