ABSTRACT This study investigated the perceptions and attitudes of tutors of Colleges of Education towards student-athletes in selected variables of behaviour in the Upper East Region of Ghana. A quantitative research approach was used for the study. The research techniques used were the descriptive method along with the correlation method. The significance of the study was that it would provide insights to tutors on how they can adopt a favourable attitude towards students who particip...
ABSTRACT In every aspect of human life, language is an important form of communication and that is one of the skills that the school system seeks to develop. Ghana as multilingual country has a challenge to meet due to the numerous languages that students are exposed to. This makes it difficult to effectively learn the target language. In order to communicate well with students in the English language classroom (L 2), teachers code-switch for several pedagogic reasons. This study sought to ...
ABSTRACT This Study was carried out to evaluate the influence of students’attitudes towards Physical Education among S.H.S students in Kwahu Afram Plains. Descriptive survey research design was used for this study. The researcher sought to measure the intangible variable attitude which is not directly observable but must be inferred from responses made by the subject to questionnaire. In all six schools were purposively sampled. A sampled size of 258 respondents from the six schools ...
ABSTRACT Budgeting is a form of financial planning and a control mechanism in an organization. Thus, it is utilized to impose the strategy of an organization. Consequently, a budget is composed of different functional plans that could help both short and long term development of an organization. The Kwadaso SDA Hospital is decentralized private organization and it engages in the preparation of annual budgets to facilitate its financial operations. However, the budget preparation, implementat...
Abstract The purpose of this study was to assess the involvement of blocked and random practices in acquisition, retention and transfer in teaching basketball skills in Senior High Schools. A quasi-experimental design was used for this study. 60 participants were selected from Presbyterian Senior High School, Accra using simple random and purposive sampling techniques. Participants were assigned (n = 30) to Blocked Practice Group (BPG) and Random Practice Group (RPG) respectively. The study ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the knowledge and competencies of students with visual impairment in the University of Educagtion, Winneba about information and communication technology (ICT). The study adopted the case study research design, where 33 students with visual impairment were randomly sampled from a population of 88 students with visual impairment. Descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used to analyse the data. The results of the study indicated that the participa...
ABSTRACT This study examined how to minimize the risk of floods through resilient design and construction with Tamale Metropolis as a case study. Perennial floods constitute a major challenge to humanity due to the socioeconomic implication for individuals and government. The outcome of floods results in destruction of facilities ranging from buildings to civil infrastructure. It is in this light that designers have a major role to play through resilient designs that can withstand the effect...
ABSTRACT This study investigated how the use of problem solving techniques could improve pre-service teachers’ performance in word problems of simultaneous equations as well as interest in the subject. The second-year pre-service teachers at the Wesley College of Education, Kumasi, were involved in the study. The study employed the survey design and data were collected using pre-test, post-test and questionnaire/interview. The data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics. The...
ABSTRACT This research was primarily designed to help improve students’ academic performance in naming organic compounds using molecular model set in Effiduase Senior High School in the Sekyere East district of the Ashanti Region. Experimental design was used for this study where the form three science classes were put into two groups. Science one students formed the control group and were taught using traditional approach while the science two students comprised the experimental group a...
ABSTRACT Several developing countries at various levels of socio- economic development have recognized the need and importance of taking measures to improve the safety performance of their construction industry. One of the means to this end has been the use of effective site managers in project execution. The aim of this study is to empirically examine the impact of site managers’ emotional intelligence on construction project safety performance while concurrently assessing the impact of ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to identify the kind of instructional materials and methods of instruction employed in the teaching of Music and Dance in the Colleges of education gleaning on the link between the Creative Arts syllabus in Primary Schools and Music and Dance syllabus in Colleges of Education in Ghana. It was a Qualitative research that adopted Observation, and focus group Interview as the main data collection instruments. The Convenient and Purposive sampling techniques were used f...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to determine the effect of frequent testing on students’ performance in some selected physics concepts at Accra Girls’ Senior High School. The purpose of this research study was used to determine the effect of frequent testing on the performance of students in some selected physics concepts as well as perception of students about frequent testing. The research design used was an action research. The participants were form two science students of Accra Gir...
ABSTRACT The study sought to ascertain primary school teachers’ knowledge of differentiation, assess teachers’ pedagogical practices of differentiation, teachers’ assessment practices of DI and to determine how supportive the primary schools’ learning environments are of differentiation. A mixed method survey research design was employed to investigate Ghanaian primary school teachers’ knowledge and practices of Differentiated Instruction. A sample of 100 primary school teachers f...
ABSTRACT Festivals are integral parts of our culture as a people. During these festive occasions, art forms are celebrated too since their roles are indispensable. The festival embraces the community, raising them onto a plane marked by aesthetics, spiritual and social values. The aesthetic values and preservative qualities of Ohum festivals cannot be relegated to the background. This thesis set out to document the history of Ohum festival, art forms used their roles, aesthetic and preserva...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of the study was to give suggestions to improve the process skills of selected senior high school students in Osei Kyeretwei Senior High School, Kumasi through the use of cooperative instructional approaches. The study was an action research that used fifty, third year elective science students out of the total of two thousand students in the school based on purposive sampling procedure. The sampled students were further divided into ten groups with five members ea...