ABSTRACT Studies have found labour standard practices among construction companies to be generally low in Ghana. This study therefore sought to assess labour standard practices among building construction companies in the Sunyani Municipality, identify constraints that affect same and also strategies for implementation. The study adopted descriptive research design. The research approach was a mixed method which is a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches. The population co...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to improve key stakeholders’ understanding of the effects of irregular road maintenance on urban road project costs. The study adopted the survey research design. Quantitative research method was used to gather primary data. The population for the study was 23 consisting of Urban Roads Management experts at the Urban Roads Department in Accra specifically Okaikoi –North, Okaikoi –South, East Ayawaso and Osu-krotey. The researcher used purposi...
ABSTRACT It is widely acknowledged that, artists are creative people. They are also key to societal growth and sustenance when it comes to promotion, preservation and protecting societal norms and practices. The study sought to examine the professional or personal philosophies of the selected sculptors that defined their works, challenges faced by the selected sculptors and their major contributions to arts and culture. Through qualitative research, an enquiry was made into the first obje...
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 study examined the factors influencing the project cost for works in Ghanaian public institutions from perspective of building contractors in Kumasi Metropolis. The study was descriptive in nature and involved survey of opinion by means of questionnaires. The target population of the study was registered contractors in Kumasi metropolis within the Ashanti Region. The number of registered construction firms was 80 out of which 50 were sampled for the study. Random sampling t...
ABSTRACT Glass is one of the very used and favored building materials with multiple applications, such as a building construction material, use in construction industries as material, use in containers and vessels, as windows in the automobile industry. Glasses in buildings are the weakest element of a house with regard to prevention of burglaries. The study aimed at assessing the effectiveness of glass in building and its security implication of buildings using Wa Municipality as a cas...
ABSTRACT Construction materials management process is a key to success of a construction project; however, globally, the problem of material management is a critical issue in the construction industry; especially in the developing economies of which Ghana is no exception. This study sought to identify and assess the material management techniques required for construction firms in the Tamale Metropolis of Ghana. The study adopted descriptive quantitative survey approach. Using empiric...
ABSTRACT The Ministry of Education (MoE)/Ghana Education Service (GES) requires all mathematics teachers to use manipulative materials to teach mathematics in Junior High Schools (JHSs) because they have the potential to demystify learning of the subject. The study was designed to examine the use of manipulative materials in teaching mathematics among junior high school teachers in the Wa municipality of the Upper West Region of Ghana. Three instruments, namely,questionnaire, interview guide...
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the study Education in its sense is to have a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. Thus, educational system of every country is designed to make learners acquire knowledge, skills, attitude, and values that enhance the total development of the individual, society and the nation at large. Quansah (1998) cited in Aboagye (2002) noted that ―the goal of education in Ghana, seeks to provide an improved and r...
ABSTRACT This research was aimed at examining the performance of small scale furniture industry in Ghana. The objectives that guided the research were to find out the challenges associated with sourcing of fund by small scale furniture companies, the challenges associated with obtaining raw materials by small scale furniture companies, the technology used by the small scale furniture companies and marketing challenges of small scale furniture companies in Ghana. The study used cross-sectiona...
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 The main goal of this study was to seek feedback from Technical University HND Fashion Students in identifying challenging issues with the S-O IA programme and to help confirm and document concerns of fashion students about the S-O I A programme in particular. The study adopted a crosssectional descriptive survey research design with a mixed method approach and used a semi-structured validated questionnaire for data collection. Purposive, simple random and convenient sampling techn...
ABSTRACT Research has shown that social studies teachers have been apprehensive about modifying instruction to incorporate technology. The study focused on Social Studies teachers’ knowledge and usage of ICT in teaching Social Studies in Junior High Schools in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region of Ghana. The study was hinged on Technology Acceptance Model developed and used concurrent triangulation design within the mixed method approach. Census sampling was used to select all ...
ABSTRACT The study was designed to improve students’ academic achievements in physics. It was the belief of the author that if students’ were allowed to develop higher cognitive processes through problem-solving instructional strategy using the five step problem solving heuristic proposed by Williams, Metcalfe, Trinklein and Lefler, called the Modern Physics Problem Solving Rule, it might improve positively their academic performance and for that matter increase their interest in physic...
ABSTRACT Walter K4mla Blege is a seasoned African art musician who uses his music to defend the cause of black Africans. He studied music at Mawuli Secondary School, Ho in the Volta Region of Ghana under the tutelage of Nicholas Zinzendorf Nayo and has continued by self-taught approaches to become a brilliant and prolific composer. This work, therefore, seeks to meticulously study and unearth the enviable compositional traits found in his works. It examines how he uses dances and other indi...