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...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at improving students‟ understanding of the concept of acid strength in Kusanaba Senior High School through the use of computer animations. A practical approach to instruction was adopted while using computer animations as a corrective tool to students‟ misunderstanding of the concept under study. The fact that the sample consisted of two different classes taught by the Researcher, each having different subject/time schedules and partly because it was not disclose...
ABSTRACT The study examined the play activities of early learners in public schools‟ kindergartens in the Ablekuma South Metro of the Greater Accra Region.Crosssectional survey design was adopted for the study. Using the census sampling procedure, 164 kindergarten teachers were sampled for the study. Questionnaire was used to gather the requisite data for the study. The data were analysed through the computation of descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequencies, percentages, mea...
ABSTRACT The progress of many institutions relies on a well - functioning physical infrastructural development. The involvement of local construction firms in constructing infrastructure projects cannot be over emphasized. However, most of the local construction firms perform abysmally as far as quality delivery was concerned. Many projects undertaken by local construction firms experience delays and other substandard performance. The aim of this study was to assess the causes of poor perform...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study aimed to find out the extent to which parents supported the education of their preschool children with special needs in five selected schools within the Wassa East District in the Western Region of Ghana. A descriptive cross-sectional survey design was employed for this study. A combination of purposive and convenience sampling methods were used to select 86 study participants comprising 80teachers and 6 parents for the study. Questionnaire (Cronbach’s alp...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between socio-economic background and academic performance of children in basic schools in AsikumaOdoben-Brakwa District. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey research design. Quantitative and qualitative approaches were employed in the study. Through purposive and convenience sampling techniques 138 respondents (120 pupils, 12 parents, and 6 teachers) were sampled for the study. The researcher used questionnaire, int...
ABSTRACT The main objective of this study was to find out the influence of virtual physics laboratory on students‟ performance in motion. The total population for the study was 63 second year science students of Bishop Herman College, Kpando; 42 in the control group and 21 in the experimental. Quasi-experimental design was adopted in this study. Questionnaire, test and opinionnaire were the researched instrument used. The data were analyzed by using SPSS 16.0 statistical analysis program. D...
ABSTRACT This research was conducted to investigate the effects of using teaching learning materials (TLMs) and learner-centred approach on performance in physics in Colleges of Education in Ghana. The target population comprised 15 science and mathematics colleges of education in Ghana. The accessible population consisted of 3 colleges out of the 15 science and mathematics colleges of education consistingof second year science students and their physics tutors in Central and Western Regions ...
ABSTRACT The study took place in Winneba Senior High School. The study involved a whole class of first year Home Economics One students in Winneba Senior High School, Winneba, selected through purposive and convenience sampling technique, totalling forty (40) students (thirty-nine female and one male). Test, questionnaire and interview were the main instrument used to collect data for the study. The researcher developed Multimodal Instructional Approaches to teach some selected topics in inte...
ABSTRACT English Language is learnt as major subject in the senior high level and as a programme at higher levels in the tertiary institutions. English Language is the official language and therefore the medium of instruction in Ghanaian schools and colleges. Student in all levels of education in Ghana are expected to learn to speak and write English Language fluently and adequately. English Language has a fairly strict word order and the elements that make up a sentence must be in concord, o...