ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate the impact of leadership styles of heads on academic performance of students in three leading secondary schools in Ho. The method used for the research was the descriptive survey. This method was used because it may reveal the actual perception of students and teachers about their head’s leadership style. The population was the heads, teachers and students of the schools involved in the study. The three heads, sixty teachers and one hundred and fif...
ABSTRACT The research sought to obtain evidence of the factors that were responsible for the academic performance of pupils in the Asawasi Sub – Metro such as family background, pupils’ characteristics, teachers’ influence and the school environmental factors.The research was conducted using observation, interviews and questionnaires. A sample size of 1640 respondents representing a heterogeneous target population was drawn from the Asawasi Sub-Metro. The study revealed that persistent...
Overview The chapter presents the background to the study, the statement of the problem. research questions and the purpose of the study. It further gives the significance of tile study and outlmes lhe delimitation and limitatIons o[ the study. It concludes With the ddiniuons often and the org.misallon of the study.
ABSTRACT Concerns raised by stakeholders in education over the continuous falling standards of education in the country has made the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service put in place such intervention as the performance Monitoring Test. The PMT is organized by the Inspectorate Division of the Ghana Education Service to measure the performance level of teachers and pupils in teaching and learning. The purpose of the study was to find out whether respondents perceived the PMT a...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the factors militating against community participation in public basic schools in Sefwi-Wiawso District of the Western Region. It specifically investigated the roles of community members, the relationship between schools and the communities, challenges to community’s participation, and ways of improving community participation in education. A descriptive survey was adopted and involved a sample size of 175 respondents made up 65 headteachers, teachers and circui...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to find out the types of activities that schools were engaged in to generate funds and how effectively and efficiently these income-generating activities were managed. The study was also interested in eliciting information on the benefits schools derived from these activities. The instrument used to collect data was a closed-ended questionnaire which was personally administered to selected groups of teachers and students, the head of school and the accoun...
ABSTRACT This study was intended to investigate the challenges that confront the administration of Accra College of Education of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. In line with the objective of the study, descriptive survey design was used to conduct the study. The sample size for the study was 56 comprising of 44 tutors, 4 heads of departments and units’, the bursar, 2 members of board of governors, the principal and the metropolitan director of education, SRC president and 2 auxiliary sta...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to find out how motivation of teachers relate to the satisfaction they have on their job. This was done by looking at the strategies that account for teachers likening of their Job and the teachers’ attitude towards motivational schemes. The study adopted a simple survey which was considered in collecting data to facilitate the testing of research questions raised in the study. The sample was drawn from two main Senior High Schools in the Tain District ...
ABSTRACT Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has the ·tools· to facilitate the core tasks of a higher educational institution like a University in the areas of teaching. learning. research. management/administration and for library services. However not much can be gained from the technology in that respect if an assessment is not made into how the technology is currently being used. its adequacy and accessibility. as well identifying the problems hampering the development and us...
ABSTRACT At a time in the nation's history when government policy was in the direction of community participation in the educational delivery process, this research was undertaken to establish the effect the attitudes of School Management Committee members have on the academic performance of their respective basic schools. The study centred on school communities in the ShamaAhanta East Metropolitan area of the Western Region of Ghana. The metropolitan area has quite a good number of basic sch...
ABSTRACT The study focused on female participation in tertiary education in the Tolon-Kumbungu District in the northern region of Ghana. The main objective of the study was to assess factors which affect female access to and participation in tertiary institutions in the district. The descriptive survey design was used for the study. The sample size for the study was made up of 86 respondents. These comprised 23 female school drop outs, 36 teachers and 20 parents. The data collection instrumen...
ABSTRACT This case study of student perception of their participation in decision-making in Dormaa Secondary School was prompted by an observation that the student leaders or prefects of the school do not sometimes perform their prefectural duties as expected. The study explored the perceptions of students of their participation in decision-making, the actual and desired areas of student participation in decision-making, the degree of student satisfaction with their involvement in decision-m...
ABSTRACT The study examined school drop-out among pupils at the Basic Education level in Songor Ramsar Site in the Dangme East District of the Greater Accra Region. The schools in this area were found in settlements called Wekumagbe, Akplabanya, Anyamam, Goi, and Lolonya. A survey was carried out using a combination of cluster, purposive, snowball and simple random sampling techniques. A sample of 110 respondents was selected from Akplabanya and Anyamam Basic Schools. The Study revealed tha...
ABSTRACT Time management is a conscious control of the amount of time spent on work activities in order to maximize personal efficiency. In nearly all institutions, there are many trivial events that waste time that have to be identified and separated from the vital few on which scarce time must really be spent. The study attempted to investigate time wasters which inhibit the amount of planned time spent on work in University of Education, Winneba (UEW) by educational administrators and adm...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effectives of instructional supervision at the Agogo College of Education since instructional supervision is a core principle in teacher education and professional teacher practice. The descriptive research design was adopted for this study and the population comprised students, tutors and administrators. A sample of 108 students covering all year levels and 36 tutors and administrators were used for the data collection. A self-administered questionnaire,...