ABSTRACT The study interrogated factors that influenced academic performance in Music at the senior high school among General Arts and Visual Arts students in the Ho West District of Volta Region, Ghana. The objectives of the study were to examine attitudes of music teachers and students towards the subject, analyse methods and materials used in teaching music and how prospective students were selected to study music at these schools. The work was done using descriptive method of qualitative ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the amount of teacher feedback and its influence on students skill acquisition with regards to Kwahu East and South Districts in the Eastern Region. Secondly, this was to provide an intervention on feedback to ascertain improvement in amount of feedback given by the teachers. Purposive sampling was used to select four P.E. teachers. A simple random sampling was used to choose a sample for students population numbered 160, 40 from each scho...
ABSTRACT In our traditional setup a trait of identifying most societies is by their music, hence, the degree of value placed on traditional music. The project was an attempt to explore and analyse the elements of adowa music of the people of Asante Mampong. The researcher as a creative ethnomusicologist collected data using observation, oral interview and audio-video recording. The study discusses the provenance of the Asante Mampong adowa genre; its role and significance to the people, the e...
ABSTRACT This study was an attempt to Compare the Categories of mathematical tasks in two SHS mathematics textbooks namely AKIOLA core mathematics series (ACM) and the Enriched mathematics (ECM) textbooks for SHS. It specifically sought to find out the categories of exercises in mathematical tasks as well as the categories of steps in mathematical tasks and whether or not there were differences between the categories of exercises and steps in the ACM textbooks and ECM textbooks. In all, eight...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the effect of extensive reading on the readability of children with reading difficulties. The research design adopted for the study was experimental design specifically the quasi experimental design. A sample of 90 children was sampled using simple random sampling and purposive techniques. The experimental group consisted of 40 children and the control group consisted of 50 children. The major instrument used for data collection was reading tests. The study re...
ABSTRACT This study evaluated the relevance of biblical counselling in contemporary society of Pentecostal churches in the Kumasi Metropolis of Ashanti Region. The study sought to provide an insight into the effectiveness of biblical counselling. The methodology used to select participants for the study consisted of stratified random sampling, proportional ratio, simple random sampling and selection of the table of random numbers methods. The Population of the study consisted of thirty-four ...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at finding out students’ perception of sources of conflict in senior high schools. The study was a descriptive survey involving a sample size of 300 participants. This included 100 first year students, 100 second year students and 100 third year students in the two public senior high schools in the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District of the Central Region in Ghana. Besides the literature search, a 43-item questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. The questio...
ABSTRACT Dipo is a prominent transitional rite of passage among the Krobo which has been carried out for years in the Eastern Region of Ghana. This ceremony is held annually and it is expected that initiates (Krobo girls who undergo the rites) spend 3 days at a place called Dipo house. Its relevance is to prevent promiscuity, teenage pregnancy and premarital sex until Krobo girls were of age to marry. The present study examined 145 participants comprising 80 initiates and 65 non-initiates rec...
ABSTRACT It would be hard, if not impossible to overstress the importance of agriculture in the growth and development of Ghana's economy. Despite our concentrated efforts at industrialization, Ghana, like other African states, remains predominantly an agrarian society. Yet, despite agriculture's strategic role in the performance of the Ghanaian economy, financial institutions (especially commercial banks) have always shown a marked reluctance to plough funds into increasing the production an...
ABSTRACT The study investigated factors that may predict union member’s commitment towards their unions. In this regard, the study focused on the relationship between perceived union effectiveness, quality of work life and union commitment among union members in Ghana. The study also examined how the various dimensions of perceived union effectiveness and quality of work life account for variance in union commitment. Participants for the study were chosen from three mining companies in Ghan...
BSTRACT Homelessness is a pervasive social problem that has devastating impacts on affected individuals and poses severe challenges to policymakers in developing countries. This study investigated psychosocial distress associated with homelessness and the effectiveness of coping strategies used to manage such distress. Homeless individuals aged 10 years and above in the Greater Accra region of Ghana constituted the research population. An explanatory mixed-method design comprising a cross...
ABSTRACT Though commuting to and from work has some health benefits, depending on one’s mode of commute, commuters often face the risk of contracting health issues. Commuting to and from work has posed health problems among the worker population in many countries, including Ghana. Despite the fact that there is a lot of research on commuting, there are few studies which report on commuting stress among haulage drivers. This study focused on commercial drivers, specifically the haulage drive...
ABSTRACT The Construction industry plays a major role in any economy and its activities are also vital to the achievement of the socio-economic development goals of providing shelter, infrastructure and employment. However, the construction industry is also recognized as an accident prone industry in Ghana. The ever-increasing cost of medical treatment, tends have a negative impact on a company's profit. The aim of the study was to examine strategies for mitigating the causes of work-related ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of selected traditional games on overarm throwing skill performance among kindergarten two pupils. A single group pretest posttest, quasi experimental design was used. Target schools for the study were 119 public preschools in the Akuapem North District in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The Sample size for the study was made up of 37 kindergarten two pupils from one public preschool which was selected using purposive sampling techniq...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study was to find out the community contributions to primary education with specific reference to Bouza Local Government Area. With an attempt to address the problem of community contributions in the development of primary schools in Bouza local Government the study employed sample survey research design. It was on this basis that 140 schools were drawn from the 231 schools existing in Bouza local Government. The instrument, the questionnaire was used a...