ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to use computer assisted instructions to improve the performance of second year science students of St. John Bosco’s College of Education, Navrongo, in the teaching and learning of cell division. The research design used for this study is action research design. The main research instrument used for the study is test (objective and essay type test) The researcher employed random sampling to sample fifty (50) students out of a population of one h...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the impact of activities on teaching and learning of Biology at the Birim Central Municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The sample population was made up of one hundred students and twenty five (25) biology teachers from the five (5) selected Senior High Schools. Data collected were analysed using SPSS version 20.0 and analysed data were converted into frequency counts and percentages. Findings of the study revealed that, biology teachers in th...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to find out the types of instructional materials available, the frequencyof use, the effective utilization as well as perceptions of teachers and students on the use ofinstructional materials in the teaching and learning of Biology in the Senior High Schools in theSekondi-Takoradi Metropolis of the Western region of Ghana.The research design used was descriptive. In all, one hundredand twenty respondents made upof a hundred biology students and twenty biology ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of instruction based on constructivist approach on students‘ achievement and views of students towards constructivist instructional approach in teaching chemical bonding. The study was a mixed-method (quantitative and qualitative) within the Action Research Paradigm. A diagnostic pre-intervention and post-intervention test questions and a questionnaire were used to collect data. The questionnaire was on a 5-point L...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate Junior High Schools Integrated Science teachers’ perceptions of classroom assessment practices. The study employed a descriptive survey research design to collect data from a sample of 22 integrated science teachers’ and 40 students’ in the district. A questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data on teachers and students perception of classroom assessment in integrated science. Lesson observations and interview schedule...
ABSTRACT The study focused on enhancing Senior High School students‟ performance in biology using the multi-media approach. The research was a quasi –experimental design involving Three General Science classes. The sample was one hundred and five (105) students of Techiman Senior High School in the Techiman municipality in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana. Purposive sampling technique was adopted for selecting the sample for the study. The experimental group Form Two Science student...
ABSTRACT The study sought to improve Senior High School students‟ performance in genetics using cooperative instructional approach in the Keta Senior High Technical School in the Volta Region of Ghana. Sixty final year students of were purposively sampled for the study. The major objectives of the study were: to find out specific genetics concepts students don‟t understand; to identify the causes of students‟ inability to understand genetic concepts; use Mathematical expressions ...
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 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 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 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. ...