ABSTRACT Junior secondary school students‟ achievement in Basic Science in Oyo State seems not to be encouraging, a trend attributed partly to persistent usage of teacher-centered instructional methods. This necessitates the adoption of students-centered instructional strategies such as the active review and practice-invention strategies. The effectiveness of these two instructional strategies in the teaching of Basic Science has however not been properly documented. This study, therefore,...
ABSTRACT This study examined the influence of government activities (delineation of dumping sites, provision of bins and transportation facilities, environmental policy formulation, advocacy, establishment of regulatory agencies) and psycho-social factors (attitudinal disposition, aesthetic values, neighbourhood appreciation, income, family/unit size, cultural affiliation, academic qualification, knowledge and awareness of environmental education) on solid wastes management behaviour in Sout...
ABSTRACT The importance of Physics in the development of science and technology has been emphasised in the literature. However, the enrolment and achievement of students in senior school certificate examination over the years keep dwindling as a result of the problem of selection of inappropriate and ineffective strategy of instruction and the abstract and practical nature of the subject, despite series of efforts of Physics educators and researchers aimed at addressing the issue. Thus, this...
ABSTRACT It is difficult to imagine how life would be if we were not receiving or giving out information. Human existence is said to depend on the receiving and giving out of information generally referred to as communication (Sekyi-Baidoo, 2000). Communication could also be defined as the process of transmitting information from a sender to a receiver and the receiver responding appropriately to the message. In inference, communication requires all parties to understand the common language ...
ABSTRACT Maternal health literacy has been identified as key predictor of maternal healthcare service utilization. The purpose of this study was to determine the difference in maternal health literacy between women residing in rural and urban areas of the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem district. The study employed a cross-section correlational design. Respondents included 448 women of childbearing ages residing in rural and urban areas selected through compact segment sampling. Information on res...
ABSTRACT The study assessed the use of Life-Approach method of teaching Christian Religious Studies in Senior High Schools in the Brong Ahafo Region. To be specific, the study looked at the use of the method, problems associated with its use, instructional resources available to support its use and how teachers’ instructional practices conform to the Life-Approach method. The descriptive survey design was employed to carry out the study. The purposive and simple random sampling techniques ...
ABSTRACT The underlying objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the School Guidance and Counselling services in second cycle schools in the Kwaebibirem District of the Eastern Region of Ghana. Data for the study was obtained through a survey using a questionnaire designed to elicit information on variables of interest. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used to select the student respondents while purposive sampling technique was used to select the couns...
ABSTRACT The study‟s main purpose was to investigate the fair testing practices of a test developer and teachers in a district-mandated testing programme in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The research design adopted for this study was the multilevel mixed methods triangulation design. Critical case sampling technique was utilized in selecting 3 key informants and 9 test questions. Also, the two-stage cluster sampling technique was adopted in selecting 251 teachers from 162 public JHSs. The ma...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study was to find out the critical factors influencing drug abuse among student clients of Ankaful psychiatric hospital in the Cape Coast Metropolis. Specifically, it to sought find out the causes of drug abuse, types of drugs students’ abuse, effects of drug abuse as well as measures to prevent drug abuse. The study was non-experimental in nature and the descriptive survey design was used to carry out the study. The population comprised all student clients...
ABSTRACT Multicultural issues are undeniably part of counselling. The growing ethnic inclusion in Ghanaian public universities highlight counsellors’ need to be trained to deliver proficient and appropriate service area to accommodate the needs of clients in the future. The main aim of this study was to assess counsellor multicultural competencies and find cultural-contextual factors influencing counselling as well as investigate possible association(s) among counsellors’ cultural compete...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the technological pedagogical content knowledge of Social Studies teachers in the Senior High Schools in the Kumasi Metropolis in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The study used “Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)” by Mishra and Koehler (2006) as the theoretical framework. The study was descriptive in nature. The population comprised all the 136 Social Studies teachers in the nineteen public Senior High Schools in the Kuma...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the challenges in the administration of selected rural senior high schools in the Ga-West District of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The descriptive survey design was employed to unearth the challenges there in. The purposive, census and convenient sampling techniques were used to select the district and respondents for the study. In all, the sample for the study consisted of 87 respondents, comprising 9 administrators and assistants, 36 heads of department...
ABSTRACT Poverty can be described as the lack of common things like food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water all of which determine the quality of life. Elmina, which is an ancient fishing community in the Central Region of Ghana, has fishing as a major occupation in the area. It was realized that in as much as fisher folks were doing everything possible to have good standard of living, they still found themselves in poverty. Although some were able to take care of their family’s bas...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to design and develop assessment instruments (tasks) to assess laboratory planning, performing and reasoning skills of physics students in selected senior high school topics in mechanics and optics. The accessible population was 551 SHS 3 physics students in seven schools within Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis. Two hundred and eighty nine students were sampled for the main study. Simple and stratified random sampling methods were employed in selecting the stu...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate reported influences on Ghanaian Basic School band pupil’s instrument choices, to gain an understanding of reasons expressed by students for preferring certain instruments and not others, in addition, to explore whether Ghanaian children are gender-stereotyped in their musical instrument choices. A questionnaire was developed to gather information concerning students’ instrumental music experience, family participation in band, reported...