ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate the effects of using cooperative learning on female teacher trainees of the Colleges of Education in learning some selected topics in Integrated Science. The investigation also sought to determine whether the Cooperative Learning Approach enhances the attitude and motivation of the trainees towards learning of Integrated Science. The study was carried out at the St. Monica’s College of Education in the Mampong Municipality of the Ashanti Region. In a...
ABSTRACT The principal focus of the study was to investigate the comparative effect of the extent to which analogy-based and animation-based instructional approaches influence senior high school students’ cognitive achievement (academic performance and retention) in biological molecular concepts especially in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) structure and replication, transcription and translation concepts. Four research questions with two hypotheses guided the study and tested at 0.05 level of ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the problems SHS Chemistry students faced in naming organic compounds especially hydrocarbons by IUPAC rules at Zion College Senior High School in the Keta Municipality. The research work established if there was a significant difference between the performance of students taught by the traditional method and those taught using molecular models. It also considered whether if there was significant difference between the performance of boys and girls in t...
ABSTRACT This study investigated chemistry topic difficulty perceived by SHS students and how the available textual materials and teachers help in addressing the difficulties. Five research questions guided the study. The study employed the descriptive survey design. The population comprised all SHS 3 chemistry students in eight schools selected from five administrative districts in Western Region. The sample size was 280 SHS 3 chemistry students and sixteen teachers. It was established that...
ABSTRACT The study sought to use practical work in the teaching of Integrated Science to improve students’ attitude and their performance in the subject. In respect of this, the action research approach was used as the research methodology. A sample of 150 Form 2 Arts individuals who demonstrated poor attitude and poor performance in class were used for the study. Three main instruments were used to collect data namely questionnaire, practical test and interview schedule. The questionnaire...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the impact of using multimedia (computer simulation) in improving students' performance in genetics in Senior High School in Brong Ahafo. The main objective of the study was to establish if there is significant difference in academic performance in genetics between students' who were taught with multimedia method and students' who were not taught with multimedia method. The specific objectives were to find out whether there will be significant difference in t...
ABSTRACT The study focused on finding out the science teaching efficacy beliefs, science content knowledge and attitudes of preservice teachers in Colleges of Education in Ghana. A survey was used to gather data from a sample of 100 preservice teachers in two colleges of education in Ghana. A questionnaire consisting of a science teaching efficacy belief instrument (STEBI-B) science teaching attitude scale and a test were used to collect quantitative data respectively. The data wer...
ABSTRACT The research investigated the influence of concept mapping on basic students’ performance in the concept of digestion. The study was a case study in Junior High School using concept mapping as an intervention teaching strategy. The study used 25 Junior High students at Danbesco Firm Foundation School in the Ashaiman Municipality, Ghana. The students were tested with teacher–constructed pre-intervention tests consisting of twenty (20) multiple–choice and five (5) detailed...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to investigate the factors that affect the effective teaching and learning of integrated science at the Junior High School level in Juaboso district. The study stemmed from the Researcher’s involvement in teaching integrated science, conduct, supervision and marking of district mock examination in integrated science organized by Juaboso district education directorate. A total of 240 out of 987 students from 10 selected junior high schools in the distr...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the status and quality of science teaching and learning in some selected Junior High Schools of the Sunyani Municipality. The research involved 10 randomly selected schools within the Sunyani Municipality. A total of 100 pupils were selected in addition to 20 Integrated Science teachers. The study was a descriptive survey. A self -constructed questionnaire (SCQ), structured observation checklists and interviews were the main instruments for the data coll...
ABSTRACT The study sought to improve the achievements and attitude of students in qualitative analysis through the cooperative teaching and learning approach. The study used action research design. A total of 71 S H S science Students (participants) were selected from Tumu Senior High Technical School and Kanton Senior High School for the study. Data for the study were collected using achievement tests and the Treatment Verification Checklist. The Treatment Verification Checklist sought res...
ABSTRACT The study is sought to improve the performance and interest of form two students’ of Chereponi senior high school in selected topics in biology using computer assisted instruction. The study was carried out in Chereponi in the northern region of Ghana. Action research design with mixed method approach was used in the study. A purposive sampling technique was used to select a sample of 198 students from the total population of form two biology students in the northern region....
ABSTRACT This study evaluated the effect of teacher interventions on students‟ science concept development. The study established the role of teacher interventions in students‟ science concept development using class-wide peer tutoring and the extent of students‟ science concept development after the intervention. In this study the Researcher taught using analogy, predict observe and explain where students‟ behaviour were observed and feedbacks provided by the peer tutors to their t...
ABSTRACT The study investigated how to improve the teaching and learning of Integrated Science practical in selected Senior High Schools in the Afadjato South District. The survey design was used for this study. The simple random sampling technique was used to obtain the sample size of 90 students and 6 Integrated Science teachers from the three selected Senior High schools, (Jibmass, Ve SHS, Leklebi SHS). The main instrument used for the study was questionnaire, interview and observation. ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the levels of pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs, competence and readiness toward ICT integration in science teaching. Data was collected in two phases. The first phase consisted of a structured questionnaire, which was given to one hundred and seventy-two (172) pre-service science teachers at Wesley and Akrokerri Colleges of Education in Ashanti Region of Ghana to gather their opinions. The second phase involved structured face-t...