ABSTRACT The study assessed the extent to which lecturers applied principles of test construction and administration in the University of Cape Coast. The descriptive survey design was used for the study. The census sampling procedure was used to include 131 lecturers in four faculties/schools and 40 Examinations Unit staff in the University of Cape Coast for the study. Seven research questions guided the study. A 67-item and 14-item questionnaires for lecturers and Examinations Units were use...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate whether incentives would be able to draw teachers from urban areas to accept posting to the rural areas and to remain and if so what type of incentives.The theoretical review centred on incentive offers for teachers. Factors underlying the perception of incentives and theories of teacher migration were reviewed. The study was a descriptive survey. The instrument used for the study was the questionnaire and interview guide. The stratified ra...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the impact of item position in multiple-choice test on student performance at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) level. The sample consisted of 810 JSS 3 students selected from 12 different schools. A quasi-experimental design was used. Students for the project were drawn from schools representing public and private schools in urban and rural areas. The instrument for the project was a multiple-choice test consisting of 40 items in each of Engli...
ABSTRACT This study looks at the Allocation of Housing Guidelines of the University of Cape Coast and its Implications for the Attraction and Retention of Senior Members. The study seeks to assess the interrelations that eXIst between housing availability and the attraction and retention of high calibre staff Data was collected through questionnaire from 105 respondents who were selected through a multi stage sampling technique. InformatIon was also gathered from a senior officer through a si...
ABSTRACT The aim of the study was to determine the extent to which staff of Ghana Commercial Bank Limited branches in the Cape Coast Municipality experience job-related stress, the behavioural manifestations of stress and the coping strategies adopted by staff at the work place. A sample of sixty-eight respondents was drawn from staff of the branches in the Cape Coast Municipality. The research design used for the study was a descriptive survey. The research instrument used was the questionna...
ABSTRACT In their quest to produce teachers who can teach ICT as well as integrate ICT into the teaching and learning enterprise, the Ministry of Education and Sports has introduced ICT studies into the curricula of Colleges of Education. This study was meant to find out how resourced are the Colleges of Education in Central Region of Ghana in their duty to train future teachers who can teach ICT and also be able to integrate ICT in the education venture. The study also sought to find out wha...
ABSTRACT Even though many interventions have been worked out to enhance teaching and learning in schools, the public outcry about the academic performance of pupils, as well as the general standard of education of some public Basic Schools in the country is said to be on the decline. Stakeholders and many parents have blamed this state of affairs on lack of commitment by administrators of schools and poor performance of teachers. The purpose of the study essentially was to find out about how ...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the challenges of women in educational institutions in the Bolgatanga Municipality. They purpose of the research was to assess the main factors that affect women’s participation in management positions. The descriptive survey method was adopted with a sample size of 150. The sample was randomly selected. The questionnaire was the main instrument used to collect data. The main methods used in analyzing the data were frequency and simple percentage distribution...
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate factors which affect motivation of librarians in three selected Universities in Zambia namely; Mulungushi University, Copperbelt University and Nkrumah University. The objectives of this study were to determine the extent to which librarians are motivated in their work, to find out factors that influence motivation among librarians in the selected university libraries in the Central and Copperbelt provinces of Zambia, to assess the impact ...
Adolescents with hearing impairment are often viewed as individuals who are psychologically maladjusted as a result of poor environmental and personality factors. Consequently, their senses of belonging in the society have been reduced to the extent that their self image have been affected. Although, several studies on adolescents with hearing impairment have focus on their academic performance, but little attempt have been made to examine or study the environmental and personality facto...
ABSTRACT ABSTRACT In this study, two science classes from two senior high schools in the Central Region were selected and put into two groups (Control and Experimental). Students from experimental group were introduced to peer instruction and students from the control group were introduced to the same topics by the use of the traditional lecture method. Students in these two groups were made to answer standardised tests of Force Concept Inventory (FCI) and Mechanics Baseline Test (MBT) to...
ABSTRACT This study situates the November 18, 1969 Aliens Compliance Order in a historical perspective and, with the employment of the internal-external approach, examines the context in which the expulsion order was enforced. Relying on both primary and secondary sources, the study reveals that various factors combined to make Ghana one of the preferred migrants’ destinations in West Africa, especially from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1960s. In the face of the growing im...
ABSTRACT There has been a concern about the quality and depth of the musical leanings accruing from school musical performances. The concern in Ghana is the level of technical ability students are able to achieve and how instructors are able to help their students develop acceptable technical control over the musical instruments they are studying. Unfortunately, no study has been done in this area in Ghana. Employing a mixed methods design with a sample of 10 Basic School Bands and 90 scores ...
ABSTRACT There has been persistent, drastic decline of the Textile Industry in Ghana which i s awfully affecting the study of textiles in Ghanaian Textiles education institutions. Upon this foundation, the study sought to examine and discuss the impact of the decline o f Ghana’s textile industry on textiles education in Ghana. The objectives of the study among others were to identify and document the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities of t he Ghanaian Textile Industry, problems that...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate factors associated with the rate of teacher attrition in public Basic Schools in the South Dayi District. The study further sought to explore mechanisms put in place by stakeholders to help retain public Basic School teachers in the district. A mixed method concurrent triangulation research design was used in the conduct of this study. The study was guided by four research questions. Data for the study were collected through two methods: ...