ABSTRACT The study was to find out the type(s) of supervision emphasized in the junior high schools, the extent to which supervision is carried out in the junior high schools, how supervision affects teaching and learning and the problem(s) that is/are associated with supervision within the junior high schools in urban and rural communities in the Akwapim North District. Twenty five junior high schools were covered in the Akwapim North District. Two hundred and eighty respondents were involve...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the teaching styles and motivational strategies of public primary school teachers in the Cape Coast Metropolis. The descriptive survey design was deemed the most appropriate research design to use in conducting the study. A sample size of 342 made up of 255 trained teachers and 87 pupils were captured for the study. The table of random numbers was used first to select 63 public primary schools within the Cape Coast Metropolis. An intervie...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to find out teachers and pupils perceptions of the Religious and moral education programme in the junior high school in Cape Coast in the Central Region of Ghana and their implication for curriculum designed. The qualitative research design was used for the study. The population was all the teachers and pupils in the junior high school in the Cape Coast Metropolis. The sample random sampling was used to select twelve schools in Cape Coast and the purpos...
ABSTRACT This study examined challenges involved in North-South Collaboration in educational development in Ghana. It sought to identify the nature and sustainability of North-South collaboration in Ghana. A qualitative research design was used for the study. Specifically, the Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used. This approach was preferred because it is flexible and allowed the researcher to discover new issues related to the research topic during investigations. The stud...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to find out how ICT was being used in the teaching and learning process in the senior high schools in the SekondiTakoradi Metropolitan area. The study was a descriptive survey. Two sets of questionnaires with Cronbach coefficient alpha values of .756 and .686, respectively, and an observation checklist were used to collect the data from 6 randomly selected schools in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan area. A total of 340 respondents in these schools, com...
ABSTRACT The study considered discovering issues in communication flow in higher educational institutions with particular reference to the University of Cape Coast. The purpose of the research was to bring to light the general perception of the internal publics of the University of Cape Coast on communication in the institution. It also sought to identify the kinds offormal and informal channels of communication, the medium of communication used and its effectiveness, as well as impediments ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the obstacles to the maintenance of discipline in selected senior high schools in the Tamale Metropolis. The study employed a cross-sectional survey design. A sample size of 482 teachers was selected for the study. Both purposive and random sampling techniques were used to select the sample. Questionnaire was the main data collection instrument. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the research data. There were obstacles to the mainte...
ABSTRACT The paper examined satisfaction with life among 1429 undergraduates from Southwestern Nigeria. Ex post focto survey design was adopted and convenient sampling method was used. Four hundred and seventy five (475, i.e. 33.2%) males and 953 (66.8%) females, ages ranging between 16 to 27 years (M=28.47, SD = 8.76). Validated scale was used for data collection and the two hypotheses stated were confirmed after testing with appropriate statistics. A total of 837 undergraduates (58.57%) had...
ABSTRACT The main focus of educational management as a discipline is to develop human resources. From cursory observation, Dangme West District was identified as having more females who are not able to further their education beyond the basic level. The study was therefore intended to find out what factors account for females’ inability to study to the highest levels in order to enjoy the needed social status. The sample size of 300 was made up of Head teachers, teachers, parents and the J...
ABSTRACT The main motivation for this research was the researcher’s desire to know the career decision-making difficulties of Senior High School (S.H.S) students in Koforidua Municipality. The descriptive survey method was employed for conducting the study. The multi-stage sampling technique was used to select a sample of 364 senior high school students from Koforidua Municipality. Data were collected mainly by the use of an adapted questionnaire. Means, standard deviation, frequency coun...
ABSTRACT The study explored the effect of social media on students’ academic performance in Senior High Schools in the Efutu Municipality. The study specifically, looked at the frequently utilised social media platforms and how social media exposure, addiction, and usage influences the students’ academic performance. Additionally, the study investigated gender and age difference that exist of social media usage. A descriptive cross-sectional survey was used. The study covered four Senio...
ABSTRACT The study examines the approach used by teachers of Core English language to teach the core English language curriculum in Bompeh Senior High School, in the Western Region of Ghana. Specifically, the study focused on the academic qualifications teachers of the Core English language curriculum possessed, how topics were arranged in the syllabus, the method used by these teachers to teach, the teaching and learning materials they used during the teaching and learning process. A case st...
ABSTRACT This thesis is a report on a comparative study of diagrams and models used as teaching aids in teaching atomic orbitals in senior secondary schools (SSS). An orbial represents a three-dimensional , atomic nucleus, where electrons arc found. Diagrams of orbitals in textbooks and on teachers' chalkboards appear in two dimensions, making visualization difficult for students. Three second-year elective chemistry classes in different schools in the Cape Coast Municipality were pretested o...
ABSTRACT The research aims at finding out the opinion of health and medical personnel in the Volta Region about the factors that contributed to the decline in HIV and AIDS prevalence rate in the region from 2006 to 2008. Three research questions were asked to guide the review of related literature on the above mentioned research topic. Simple random sampling was used to select 10 hospitals in the region for the study. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 250 respondents, thus 2...
ABSTRACT The study examined gender differences in the academic performance of Financial Accounting students in selected senior high schools in the Central Region of Ghana. Descriptive survey design was employed to carry out the study. The simple random sampling and census techniques were used to select 331 students and 137 teachers of Financial Accounting respectively. Questionnaires were the instrument used in collecting the data. The data was analysed using descriptive statistics (means, st...