ABSTRACT This study investigated the use of animations and models to enhance the teaching and learning of biology at St Mary‟s Boys Senior High School, Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana. It explored the views of students on biology as a subject as well as the views of students on the role of animations in learning. The population consisted of 60 students from two intact classes of Saint Mary‟s Boys Senior High School in the Western Region of Ghana. Based on the results of ...
ABSTRACT This research sought to improve science concept formation of Senior High School students by bringing to light the factors that inhibit science concept formation in Keta Senior High Technical School students and proposing solutions to the factors. The research was conducted using one hundred and ninety three students, four science teachers and two science laboratory technicians all of Keta Senior High Technical School. Questionnaire was administered to the one hundred and ni...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of using visual aids as an instructional tool in the teaching of circulatory systems in humans on the performance of Junior High School students. It further investigated the students‟ perception of motivation about their integrated science classroom learning environment under the visual aids and traditional teaching approaches. The study employed quasi experimental design. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the two ...
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 th...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the challenges of ICT integration in the teaching and learning of science in public senior high schools in the Akuapem North Municipality. The study was guided by four objectives: to determine the availability of ICT infrastructure in public senior high schools in the teaching of science, to determine ICT skills level of Science teachers, to establish the frequency of ICT use in the teaching of science and to identify strategies used by senior high schools t...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to determine the effectiveness of problem-based learning (PBL) approach to mole concept among students of Techiman Senior High School. The study was quasi-experimental research and nonrandomized control group pre-test – post-test design. The total population considered for the study was 243 second year students of Techiman Senior High School. The sample size was 74 second year students offering the General Science Programme. The selection procedure was...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to investigate the instructional approaches utilized in selected seniorhigh schools during integrated science lessons. The persistent poor performance of senior highschool (S H S) students in the research area in integrated science prompted this study. Thetarget population comprised senior high schools in the Gomoa East and West District of thecentral region. The accessible population however consisted of senior high school in the GomoaEast District. Of the ei...
ABSRTACT The concern of this study was to investigate the effect of guided-discovery learning strategy on the performance of students on mode of heat transfer. Students from two selected public senior high schools were used. The research was a quasi-experimental one and the main instruments for data collection were a 20-item multiple choice Physics Achievement Test drawn from West African Examination Council past questions on mode of Heat Transfer and a questionnaire. The questionnaire...
ABSTRACT This study explored some of the difficulties students face when learning Chemistry in the Science Colleges of Education. The study was prompted by the students‟ poor performance in their first and second semester examinations. The main purpose of the study therefore, was to identify some of the difficulties the students face when studying Chemistry and also look at the practices that would enhance their study of the subject. The study was also aimed at finding out whether th...
ABSTRACT This study evaluated the effect of using plots and graphs to teach the concept motion. The study established the effects of plots and graphs to teach motion. In this study the Researcher taught using charts, diagrams, plots and graphs and the students were taken through a lot of activities. The progress of students was monitored by the Researcher through the use of the activities and the evaluation questions. The study identified students feedback to the questions asked du...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find out the role of practical work in senior high school physics teaching. Action Research design was adopted. Form two, 30 science students from Ngleshie Amafro Senior High School Kasoa randomly selected were involved in the study. Five physics topics were taught over a period of four weeks. Five lessons were therefore held in which practical work was used as the main teaching strategy. Findings from the students’ practical activities ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated teachers’ perceptions of classroom assessment and their current classroom assessment practices in science. A total of 22 teachers comprising of 9 males and 13 females drawn from four primary schools in the Anyako/Afiadenyigba circuit of Keta Municipal Assembly (KeMA) were involved in the study. Questionnaire was used as the main source of data collection instrument. The data collected helped to establish the teachers’ perceptions of classroom assess...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate Senior High School students’ conception of the sickle cell disease (SCD). The study was conducted in two schools from the Adentan Municipality in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The total population of sample consisting of four hundred and twenty (420) was selected from two different Senior High Schools forms one and two students. The accessible population included ninety-six (96) from Delcam and Two hundred and thirty-five (235) stud...
ABSTRACT This research was primarily designed to help improve students’ academic performance in naming organic compounds using molecular model set in Effiduase Senior High School in the Sekyere East district of the Ashanti Region. Experimental design was used for this study where the form three science classes were put into two groups. Science one students formed the control group and were taught using traditional approach while the science two students comprised the experimental group a...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of the study was to give suggestions to improve the process skills of selected senior high school students in Osei Kyeretwei Senior High School, Kumasi through the use of cooperative instructional approaches. The study was an action research that used fifty, third year elective science students out of the total of two thousand students in the school based on purposive sampling procedure. The sampled students were further divided into ten groups with five members ea...