ABSTRACT This long-essay discussed the topical issue on the effects of school-based violence on the academic achievements of students. It focused the phenomenon from the national and international perspectives. The theoretical framework to the problem was provided. The typologies and different forms of school-based violence were identified and succinctly discussed. They include; corporal punishment, sexual violence, bullying, cultism, fighting, arson, neglect and discrimination. The ado...
ABSTRACT Ghana has considerable problems with road safety which manifest in the numerous incidences of road accidents. In the past, road safety management was characterized by dispersed, uncoordinated, and insufficiently resourced institutional units performing isolated single functions by individual departments within the Ministry of Roads and Transport. Currently, the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), Police MTTU and DVLA together with other stakeholder organizations were mandated to ...
ABSTRACT Rework is an endemic problem in building construction projects and it is an area of research that has received limited attention. Recent research has shown that rework is the primary cause of time and schedule overruns in projects and that rework levels do not significantly differ between current procurement methods despite calls from government for the use of more integrated procurement approaches such as design-and-construct to improve project performance. The study adopted a quant...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of kindergarten teachers on integration of music in the kindergarten curriculum. The theoretical perspectives of the social cognitive theory of Bandura and Gardner‘s theory of multiple intelligences were adopted for the study. The pragmatist philosophy underpins this study. This study adopted the descriptive design using mixed-methods sequential exploratory approaches. The target population for the study was the thirty-six pu...
ABSTRACT Many students in our Colleges of Education have not been exposed to explore MS Excel in solving mathematical problems. The aim of this study was, therefore, set out to explore the various ways for teaching and learning Probability, using the MS Office Excel software programme. The study has explored how tutors and students can use MS Excel to solve problems in probability. The researcher integrated both qualitative (interviews and observation instruments) and quantitative methodologi...
ABSTRACT Mental health and behavioural problems could be attributed to early childhood and the mother-child interactions. The study aimed at investigating what impact biological and foster parenting has on the adolescent’s personality, cognitive performance, self-esteem, depression and anxiety. A case study was adopted for this study and samples were selected on a randomized convenient sampling. A population of 200 students comprising 100 females and 100 males were studied of which 50 were ...
ABSTRACT Mass housing industry is highly risk prone, with complex and dynamic projects environment which create an atmosphere of uncertainty and risk. The industry is vulnerable to various technical, managerial, socio- political among other risks. The track record to cope with these risks has not been good in the industry. As a result, the people working there bear various failures such as;inadequate specifications, errors in designs etc. with the overall consequence of poor management of ris...
ABSTRACT The dissertation was an investigation of the Feok War Dance festival celebrated by the Builsa people in the Upper East Region of Ghana. The study sought to establish the provenance of the Buluk state and the position of the Feok war dance festival in Builsa in contemporary Ghana, identify security concerns raised by the festival and utilize creative elements rationalized from the magical endowments as a resource to develop a scientific security training method that guarantee public s...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to compare the activity-based and discussion methods of teaching and learning of seed germination: a case study in Anyinasu M/A Junior High School. Thirty pupils were involved in the study. The pupils were put into two groups (Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’). Group ‘A’ of 15 pupils were taught seed germination using discussion method whiles Group ‘B’ also made up of 15 pupils, were taught the same concept using activity-based approach. The two group...
Abstract The study investigated the impact of inquiry-oriented instructional approach (IO-IA) on the teaching and learning of partial differential equations (PDEs) at the undergraduate level with the purpose of addressing challenges that students face in the learning of PDEs. A purposive sampling technique was used to select four hundred (400) students from the two cohort groups (2016/2017 and 2017/2018 academic year students) of mathematics students. The selected students in each year group ...
ABSTRACT The Kete cloth is a product that is exclusive to Ghana, being fully hand woven and highly symbolic. This weaving tradition has gained popularity in renowned communities situated in the Volta, and other parts of the country. Kete as it is known among the Ewes in the Volta region has a unique ability to evoke powerful emotions and symbolizes some of the fundamental human ideas ever imagined in Africa, within Ghana. This research seeks to discover the concepts of aesthetics, appreciatio...
ABSTRACT Background: The development of maternal health services does not warrant their use by women. Nor do the use of maternal health services warrant ideal results for women. A unique element of health care components which is spotlight to explain why women do either not access facilities at all or access the facilities late and experience an average unfavourable results, in spite of timely presentation, concerns the intangible notion of care. Quality of care based on the definition of Ins...
ABSTRACT Information management is an important element in the total development of a nation. Although African governments acknowledged this fact little or no effort was made in the solving of the problems of poor information management. In Ghana, the inefficiency in the public sector could be partly attributed to poor management of records. Clearing, the records keeping system established in the colonial era can no longer cope with the complex and growing challenges of modem administration. ...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at helping SHS 2 Home Economics students’ of Diabene Senior High Technical School, Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana, on their performance in both class test and examinations in Integrated Science. Out of two hundred and fifty (250) students, one hundred and five (105) students made up of 95 boys and 10 girls were selected as sample size. The method for the sampling exercise was simple random sampling. Data were collected through interviews, observations and t...
ABSTRACT Public Basic School buildings are great assets to communities and the nation as a whole, which must be maintained to warrant greater worth. This study assessed maintenance culture of school buildings and their impact on teaching and learning in Public Basic Schools in Ghana, a case study in the Denkyembour District in the Eastern Region. The objectives of the study were to: examine the issues of maintenance culture of Public Basic school buildings, identification of maintenance cultu...