ABSTRACT There is wide spread perception of drug use by small scale miners in their activities. The problems of drug use and its impact on an individual have been noted in most drug research works. In Ghana, drug research studies over the years have concentrated on second cycle institutions, certain communities and institutions. This study sought to describe the nature of drug use and the perceived effects of the drugs on small scale mine labourers of Asutifi North District of Brong-Ahafo Reg...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate significant sex differences in students’ achievement scores in core mathematics as measured by the School-Based Assessment System. It also investigated the extent to which mathematics teachers were aware and conversant with the provision for the SBA. A survey method was used and simple random sampling and purposive sampling techniques were used to select three Senior High Schools in the Ho Municipality. A total of 194 students had their assessment i...
ABSTRACT This study employed the descriptive survey to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of HIV counsellors in HIV counselling and testing in the Central Region of Ghana. In all, 140 HIV counsellors from the Central Region were sampled through the use of the purposive sampling procedure. The convenient sampling procedure was adopted to carry out the observation sections. Questionnaires and observation guide were used to collect the necessary data for the study. Descriptive statisti...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to identity the challenges in deliveries and family planning services in the Berekum District. The study sought to investigate the extent to which clients and private midwives have interest with the students mid wives and the relationship of the students to their clients. The descriptive survey design was used for the study. A total of 80 respondents were used for the study comprising 60 randomly sampled clients, 5 professional midwife and 15 ward assista...
ABSTRACT Education delivery at the basic school level cannot be carried out effectively without the required quality and quantity of teachers. This implies that educational administrators must ensure that at any point in time measures have been instituted to recruit and retain the required number of teachers. In view of this realization, an investigation was conducted into how basic school teachers are recruited and retained in the Obuasi Municipal Education Directorate. A sample of 120 respo...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to see how effective the heads of Senior Secondary Schools in the Ga district are. The study sought to investigate the perception of teachers and students of the leadership effectiveness of these heads in the Ga District of the Greater Accra Region. The respondents of the study were teachers and students of five Senior Secondary Schools in the Ga district, namely the Presbyterian Boys Secondary School (Presec), St John's Grammar School, West Africa Secondary S...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study was to ascertain the attitude university students have towards online counselling in the College of Humanities, University of Ghana. The study employed the descriptive survey design. Simple random sampling technique was employed to select 500 respondents from a population of 17,815 students from the College of Humanities, University of Ghana. The study made use of primary data through the use of an adapted Online Counselling Attitude Scales for data col...
ABSTRACT This study was an attempt to identify the determinants of academic underachievement among University of Cape Coast students. Five hundred sixty five under performing respondents were purposively sampled out of 3,459 students from the 2002- 2003 year group for the study. A research questionnaire was designed and used to obtain the data for the study. The internal consistency method was used to establish a reliability coefficient of 0.82 for the questionnaire. Frequencies, percentages,...
ABSTRACT This research sought to ascertain the impact of sexual harassment on the academic and social life of female students in the Senior High Schools (SHS) in the Akuapem North Municipality. Making informed decision when confronted with acts of sexual harassment is a great hurdle to the female senior high student. A descriptive survey design was used to investigate phenomenon. The populations of the study were 104 female students in 4 Senior High Schools in the Akuapem North District. Purp...
ABSTRACT Competition, misunderstanding and mistrust are likely to occur when people meet as a group which could ultimately result in conflict or indiscipline. Since the school is a miniature of a society, conflict and indiscipline are likely to occur too. In this regard, the researcher sought to examine the extent to which the authorities manage to curb the level of indiscipline in New-Abirem Junior High School in the Birem North District. The population for the study comprised guidance co-or...
ABSTRACT The study which used descriptive survey design was basically to find out the attitudes of Muslim parents towards girl-child education in Bawku municipality in the upper-east region of Ghana. A sample of 100 respondents form communities in the Bawku Municipality comprised 25 farmers, 25 unemployed youth, 25 opinion leaders and 25 petty traders was used. A questionnaire was used as the instrument for data collection and the data were analysed using descriptive statistics. A main findin...
ABSTRACT This study was concerned with recruitment and retaining of teachers in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region of Ghana. The highlights were on the quantity, quality, factors that attract and those that do not attract teachers and what could be done to retain teachers in the long run. The descriptive survey was the research design that was used. Three questionnaires were the instruments employed for data collection. A sample of 239 respondents was chosen out of the population ...
ABSTRACT The production and proliferation of the novel and its associated innovative modes of narration in the modern corpus of literature require critical appraisal especially with regard to narratological issues. Crucial is the concern for the function of and the indispensable role of narratological time in narratives. This study explores Time with its complexity in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Weep Not, Child. As its theoretical framework, the research a...
ABSTRACT Drama is artistic when it depicts life. It deals with man's experience which is the raw material for the playwright who is above all else a member of his particular society. He absorbs the culture of his society, takes in the language, observes the environment, discovers its idiosyncrasies and tries to reproduce them in his writings, especially in a format that connects with the aesthetic and social values of his audience. Mohammed ben-Abdallah is one Ghanaian dramatist who has devel...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to establish the determinants of basic school pupils’ low performance in English composition in Junior High Schools within the Agona East District. The objectives were to identify the factors contributing to low academic performance of the pupils in English composition, to examine how these factors contributes to low academic performance of the pupils in English composition, to examine teachers’ instructional strategies and their effect on the pupils...