ABSTRACT Adequacy Of Movement Education As A Programme For Physical Education In Some Primary Schools In The City Of Lagos sought to investigate the extent to which movement education can adequately lead to the realisation of physical education objectives
ABSTRACT This study investigated the impact of Activity Schedule and Anticipation Training as counselling strategies in managing mild depression among Nigerian adolescents. Six Senior Secondary Schools were randomly selected from three Education Districts in Lagos State. The total population of SS 2 students, available for the study in the six schools, was 2,982. To select the participants for the study, The Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) was administered to assess the cognitive, affecti...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of testwiseness training on test anxiety and achievement in Mathematics among selected secondary school students in Ekiti State. The moderating effect of gender and cognitive ability was also investigated. The study employed the pre test-post test control group, quasi experimental research design. A total of four hundred and twenty five (425) participants consisting of two hundred and nineteen (219) male and two hundred and six (206) female Senior...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to gain insights into institutional policies and commitment for supporting Distance Education (DE) learners in public dual mode universities in Ghana. The study was underpinned by Simonson’s theory of equivalency and a Policy analysis framework (PAF) for studying distance education institutions. The study used the convergent parallel design of the mixed methods in which qualitative and quantitative approaches were adopted. Six principal officers and 632 DE...
INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Entrepreneurship is widely acknowledged as a key factor in promoting employment, fighting poverty and stimulating sustained economic growth (Adrangi et al. 2003; Botha et al., 2006). Furthermore, Garavan and O’Cinneade (1994: 3) noted that entrepreneurship is “a possible solution to rising unemployment rates and a recipe for economic prosperity.” This recent upsurge of interest has led to a host of supportive interventions aimed at promoting entr...
ABSTRACT Due to the massive size of the school enterprise resulting from democratization of education effort of the government
ABSTRACT Agricultural development is contingent upon the dissemination of useful and utilizable research findings to farmers in the form of language that can be easily understood and internalized by them.
ABSTRACT This thesis looks at the socio-economic and psychological factors mediating marital commitment among married couples in the Taifa Circuit of the Methodist Church Ghana, in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Attention was paid to the nature of the socioeconomic and psychological factors that influence marital commitment in the Ghanaian context. Many marriages have suffered difficult situations such as deep regrets by spouses, depression, divorce etc all due to low level of marital com...
ABSTRACT The study examines user changes and challenges of academic libraries with emphasis on Central University College Library, Ghana. The study used multiple data sources from both the staff and patrons of the library, semi-structured questionnaire and analysed, using exploratory and descriptive statistics. The study found that the library provides traditional services in the area of circulating of materials, reservation of materials, provision of seating accommodation and information li...
ABSTRACT This study examined the prevalence of psychosocial problems among persons living with glaucoma and also examined whether their socio-demographic characteristics significantly affect their levels of psychosocial distress. One hundred (100) patients with glaucoma were selected from two eye clinic in Accra as the sample for the study. The patients were administered questionnaires that measured their levels of depression, anxiety, stress and social distress associated with living glauco...
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers play a vital role in food production in Ghana. However, their households are major casualties of food insecurity despite their efforts in food production. This study sought to identify the determinants of food security status and describe the coping strategies used among smallholder farming households in the Upper West Region of Ghana. The study calculated a food security index (FSI) to determine the food security status of households in the study area. The logit ...
ABSTRACT Little attention has been paid to literacy assessment in developing countries including Ghana. The objective of the research work was to conduct an assessment of literacy training activities by the Literacy and Development through Partnership (LADP) including assessment of the performance of learners in numeracy, reading and writing, the application of literacy skills in the lives of adult learners and the facilitation method used by the LADP. The study was basically a case that empl...
ABSTRACT This is a case study of Adabraka on the perception of female vulnerability and risk factors to HTV/AIDS Adabraka was chosen because of its heavy night activity such as nightclubs and drinking spots, which have generated into high incidence of prostitution. At the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic men were most infected persons as the mode of transmissions was mostly by exchange of syringe and homosexual activity. As the disease began to spread heterosexual intercourse became the maj...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of the study was to investigate pupils’ experiences when working on non-routine mathematics problems. This was deemed imperative to discover learners’ reactions to problems of this kind, investigate their competencies and skills necessary for successfully working out nonroutine exercises and also delving deeper into how pupils felt whenever they were tasked to work on complex type problems. Again, the study sought to unearth how pupils were benefitting from usef...
Abstract This studyinvestigated and found the influence of drug abuse on the academic performance of secondary school students. The purpose of the study was to find out how drug abuse has influenced the academic performance of secondary school students. The study adopted a descriptive survey design in which three research questions were posed. The population of the study was 1000 while the sample size of 200 was selected randomly out of the total population of Government secondary sc...