ABSTRACT The study investigated public school junior high mathematics teachers’ conceptions of assessment and their practices of it. It intended to find the extent to which the teachers’ conceptions of the assessment practices reflect assessment for learning, assessment as learning and assessment of learning. It also put to bear the assessment tools that the teachers use in assessing mathematics learning outcomes. The study employed the concurrent triangulation mixed research design with...
ABSTRACT Gross motor skills have been shown to influence motor development during childhood stage. The purpose of this study is to assess the gross motor development of kindergarten pupils at Akyemansa district in the Eastern Region, Ghana. Experimental design of pretest-posttest non-equivalent groups’ method was adopted. The sample consists of eighty participants between ages 4 to7years.The participants were selected using simple random, purposive and stratified sampling techniques. Test ...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted in Aowin District in the Western Region of the Republic of Ghana. It investigated the socio-economic background of parents in relation to the academic performance of pupils. A descriptive survey design using mixedmethods sequential explanatory approach was employed for this study. A combination of simple random, stratified and convenience sampling methods were used to select 126 study participants. Questionnaire (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.82) and semi-structure...
ABSTRACT Technical efficiency of resource-use, particularly in salt production is a major concern for the level of productivity and profitability of salt miners depend on it. Thus, the study was conducted to estimate the level of technical efficiency among small scale salt producers in Elmina. The study used the entire population of 96 salt producers in Elmina. The study reveals that, Cobb-Douglas stochastic production frontier best fits small scale salt producers in Elmina. The results of th...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the role of maintenance culture of public buildings using selected institutions within the Sunyani Municipality. Simple random sampling technique was used to sample 100 staffs of the institutions that were administered with questionnaires and their top managers also interviewed. Out of the sample size of 100 respondents, 96 of them responded to the questionnaire constituting a response rate of 96%. On the maintenance culture and state of respondent’s buildings,...
ABSTRACT The judicious control and management of construction waste has been a clarion call for stakeholders in the construction industry of Ghana. Construction materials reuse and recycling has not gained popularity in the Ghanaian construction industry. The study sought to examine sustainable construction practices in Ghana, focusing on recycle and reuse potentials of waste materials using Ashanti and Greater Accra Regions as the study areas. A sample size of 184 contractors were selected f...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the use of computer simulation to improve the teaching and learning of photosynthesis in two selected Junior High Schools in Prestea Huni-Valley. The research was quasi experimental involving a pre-test and post-test. The total population of the third year Junior High School Students‟ was 2018 students. The sample for the study comprised 136 third year Junior High School students sampled from two public junior high schools in the Western Region of ...
ABSTRACT To fully participate in the Methodist Church’s singing tradition, the Singing Band in the Methodist Church Ghana was created purposely to specifically enable non-literates of the Fante community to sing in their local language—Fante. In present times, the church’s liturgy still mandates the Singing Band to perform during church service. Over the years however, the Singing Band in the Methodist Church has been greatly populated by literates. This thesis undertakes a historical a...
ABSTRACT Dagara constitute an ethnic group who occupy and span two neighbouring countries in West Africa: Ghana and Burkina Faso. They are located in the South-Western region of Burkina Faso and in the Upper-West region of Ghana. Although the Dagara live in different countries, they still share the same socio-cultural practices that define them culturally among other ethnic groups. Dagara cultural identity is their collective and dynamic cultural values held and cherished over the years. Musi...
ABSTRACT The objective of the study was to look at self-help development in relation to the role that has been played by The District Assembly in that direction. Seven research questions and three hypotheses were studied. Descriptive statistics and the Chi-Square (X2) statistic were used to analyse the data. The study took into consideration the independent and dependent variables of interest in this study. The study found out that one way of empowering the people to engage in self-help...
ABSTRACT The quality of building materials has been documented to be one of the causes of building collapse all over the world. An experimental study was conducted to determine the effect of fines (clay/silt) content in sand and water-to-cement ratio on the workability, compressive strength, tensile strength and flexural strength of concrete. A total of 270 specimens were cast and tested with varying fines content in sand of 2%, 4%, 6%, 8%, 10% and 12%; and variable water-to-cement rat...
ABSTRACT Globally, flood disasters increasingly pose severe risk to humanity due to their devastating effects. The built environment is the worst affected sector and often the repercussions of flood events on poorly planned and/or designed settlements leads to crisis situations. In Ghana, floods are major occurrences in the principal cities and towns and settlements along the Volta River Basin. Yearly, the three northern regions of Ghana namely; Northern Region, Upper East Region and Up...
ABSTRACT Credit risk has shown to be one of the main forms of risks financial institutions are exposed to due to the very nature of their business operations. The study investigated how rural and community banks managed their credit risk in Ghana. Accordingly, the main objectives of the study were to determine the main sources of credit risks rural and community banks are exposed to in Ghana, to identify the credit risk management practices of rural and community banks in Ghana, to assess t...
ABSTRACT Approximately 680 tree species have been identified in Ghana’s forest, but only a few of these have been put to commercial use. Of the 1999 timber production, some 60 percent was derived from a small number of species. Actually, 66 species dominated felling in 1999. Since there is an increasing demand for tropical timbers, there is therefore the need to consider less well known but commonly found species such as Gmelina arborea which could be developed for commercial use. The...
ABSTRACT This study was aimed at finding out the importance of mentoring practices on Preservice teachers for developing effective primary science teaching. The main purpose for this study therefore, was to identify and describe the perception of the final year pre-service teachers of Abetifi College of Education (ABETICOE) on their mentoring in primary science education and the extent to which they received the range of mentoring practices that would assist them in developing their pri...