ABSTRACT This study investigated how the use of problem solving techniques could improve pre-service teachers’ performance in word problems of simultaneous equations as well as interest in the subject. The second-year pre-service teachers at the Wesley College of Education, Kumasi, were involved in the study. The study employed the survey design and data were collected using pre-test, post-test and questionnaire/interview. The data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics. The...
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 Several developing countries at various levels of socio- economic development have recognized the need and importance of taking measures to improve the safety performance of their construction industry. One of the means to this end has been the use of effective site managers in project execution. The aim of this study is to empirically examine the impact of site managers’ emotional intelligence on construction project safety performance while concurrently assessing the impact of ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to identify the kind of instructional materials and methods of instruction employed in the teaching of Music and Dance in the Colleges of education gleaning on the link between the Creative Arts syllabus in Primary Schools and Music and Dance syllabus in Colleges of Education in Ghana. It was a Qualitative research that adopted Observation, and focus group Interview as the main data collection instruments. The Convenient and Purposive sampling techniques were used f...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to determine the effect of frequent testing on students’ performance in some selected physics concepts at Accra Girls’ Senior High School. The purpose of this research study was used to determine the effect of frequent testing on the performance of students in some selected physics concepts as well as perception of students about frequent testing. The research design used was an action research. The participants were form two science students of Accra Gir...
ABSTRACT The study sought to ascertain primary school teachers’ knowledge of differentiation, assess teachers’ pedagogical practices of differentiation, teachers’ assessment practices of DI and to determine how supportive the primary schools’ learning environments are of differentiation. A mixed method survey research design was employed to investigate Ghanaian primary school teachers’ knowledge and practices of Differentiated Instruction. A sample of 100 primary school teachers f...
ABSTRACT Festivals are integral parts of our culture as a people. During these festive occasions, art forms are celebrated too since their roles are indispensable. The festival embraces the community, raising them onto a plane marked by aesthetics, spiritual and social values. The aesthetic values and preservative qualities of Ohum festivals cannot be relegated to the background. This thesis set out to document the history of Ohum festival, art forms used their roles, aesthetic and preserva...
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...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the headteachers instructional supervisory styles and job performance of Social Studies teachers in some Public Junior High Schools in Kassena-Nankana Municipality in the Upper East Region of Ghana. The study was grounded in Glickman, Gordon and Ross-Gordon‟s (1998) developmental supervisory theory. The study adopted the cross-sectional design. The population covered all headteachers in public Junior High Schools in KassenaNankana Munic...
ABSTRACT This study examined the records management practices of administrative staff at the Western Regional office of the Ghana Education Service. Among other things, it sought information on the availability, maintenance and utilization of records. The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The site and the participants were selected through the purposive sampling technique. The study involved a sample of 16 participants which comprised 5 administrators, 2 secretaries, 8 hum...
ABSTRACT A descriptive survey was conducted to determine the school-related, teacher-related, and community-related factors that account for teacher performance in private junior high schools in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis. A purposive sampling technique was used to select high performing private junior high schools (n = 9) in the metropolis. Data for the study were based on responses from head teachers (n= 9) and teachers (n= 60) from the selected schools. The research instrument consi...
ABSTRACT Pregnancy among adolescents has become a major issue in Ghana with high prevalence in some regions in the country, including the Central Region. Using a 1:1 matched case-control study design, this study sought to find out the risk factors associated with pregnancy among adolescent girls in Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem Municipality (KEEA) Municipality. A sample size of 400 was taken from the population of 7,667 female adolescents. Facility-based sampling was used to sample respondents...
ABSTRACT The study examined student’s perception of the student loan trust fund in the University of Cape Coast its benefits and challenges. The study adopted the descriptive survey design to describe students’ views about the Students loan trust fund (SLTF). The data gathered were from a sample size of 269 respondents from the University of Cape Coast using a questionnaire. The study adopted three sampling technique namely: convenience sampling technique, snowball sampling technique and...
ABSTRACT The scourge of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has almost overwhelmed mankind of late and given a lot of sleepless nights to almost everybody. For over thirty years after the first case was diagnosed, scientists have not been able to find an antidote to help halt its spread. This dissertation sought to examine the attitudes of students of second cycle institutions towards HIV and AIDS prevention. The research work was carried out in K...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to obtain information regarding factors associated with low female participation in university sports. The population of the study was made up of university sports ladies from University of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, University of Cape Coast, University of Education, Winneba and University of Development Studies. Two hundred and fifty respondents were used for the study. Sports ladies from the mentioned five public unive...