ABSTRACT The study explored teachers’ views on professional development activities in basic schools for deaf students in Ghana. The study specifically looked at the available professional development activities in the schools, teachers’ views on how the available professional development activities make them effective, among others. The study utilized a convergent parallel mixed methods design with survey and case studies guiding the two aspects of the parallel convergent design....
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate which Local Area Network (LAN) equipment were affordable to Senior High Schools in Ghana and if some of these equipment were already available for LAN formation. The study also attempted to establish how knowledgeable were users of the LAN with respect to the cost of setting up, the annual cost of operation, and amount of money provided by stakeholders and donor agencies for funding the local area network. The descriptive survey design was used for th...
ABSTRACT This study explores the factors that advance the expository techniques of teaching and learning in mathematics. The study was conducted in Shama Senior High School in the Shama District of the Western Region of Ghana which had a final-year student population of 726. The descriptive survey research method design was employed, where a simple random sampling technique selected 10 teachers and 280 students for the study. Two expository research models namely, mathematics teacher‟s que...
ABSTRACT The study sought to explore natural science teachers’ curriculum knowledge, selfefficacy beliefs and their classroom instructional and assessment practices in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region of Ghana. A mixed method sequential explanatory research design was used for the study. Data were collected by administering natural science teachers’ curriculum knowledge (NSTCK) and the science teaching self-efficacy beliefs (STEBI) questionnaires to 232 natural science�...
ABSTRACT Basic Science is a useful subject for developing scientific knowledge and technological skills in young learners. However, students’ achievement in the subject is dwindling at the junior secondary school level. Numerous efforts made to resolve the problems notwithstanding, little success has been achieved. As part of the sustained efforts in finding new ways of boosting students’ achievement, this study investigated the use of two conceptual change strategies (Simplex and Cognit...
ABSTRACT Most public secondary school students in South-west Nigeria are faced with inadequate emotional, financial and social supports in the home and among peers. Most times, such students are without adequate learning materials, a condition which is not favourable for effective learning and that could hamper academic performance. Despite these challenges, these disadvantaged students still demonstrate willingness and desire to succeed in their academic endeavours. However, factors attribu...
ABSTRACT Basic Science is a core subject at the basic education level in Nigeria. It is taught to lay foundation for future subjects, such as Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Evidence abound that students dislike, fear and therefore fail the senior secondary science subjects due to inadequate exposure to practical works and skills at the basic education level. Previous studies largely focused on factors affecting teaching and learning of Basic Science practical without emphasis on interventio...
Abstract This study assess the impact of home based HIV counselling and testing in expanding access to HIV voluntary counselling and testing in rural Nigeria. The participants of the study were 1, 200 drawn from five constituent wards in Saki town in four streets, in 12 households using multistage sampling techniques. The participants aged 15 – 55 years. The instrument used for data collection was HIV counselling and testing client intake form. The design adopted for this study was pre-post...
ABSTRACT Television, a typical mass medium strives to update viewers on happenings around them with the hope of influencing change in actions, attitudes, opinions or belief. This is done through different types of programmes and messages being disseminated, including specialised Christian broadcastings. The Christian broadcasting industry has become a big industry, notwithstanding the degenerating moral state of the society. Corruption, greed, selfishness, dishonesty and immorality have beco...
ABSTRACT The study evaluated the strategies employed by the Directorate for Social Mobilisation (MAMSER) for its Political Education Programme in Nigeria between 1987 and 1992. This was with a view to determining the best strategies for political education within the context of Nigerian environment. Chapter One is the Introduction to the study. A brief Historical Background of Nigerian Politics which resulted in the setting up of an agency for political education was reviewed. The chapter al...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the differential views of SHS teacher factors that affect students‟ performance in biology in two districts of Eastern Region, Ghana. The research was guided by five research objectives. The study sought to establish the effect of certain factors such as teachers‟ motivation, qualifications, instructional approaches, professional experience and job satisfaction on students‟ performance in biology in two selected Districts of Eastern Region. The st...
ABSTRACT This study employed a descriptive survey to determine the effect of using integration technology, group work and practical demonstration on the pedagogical skills of basic school teachers as they participated in some carefully designed instructional activities that try to elicit their misconceptions in some selected science topics. A sample size of forty - five (45) teachers was used for the study: 33 (73%) Science teachers and 12 (27%) ICT teachers from the eight Junior High ...
ABSTRACT The wood industry contributes about 11% of the Gross Domestic Products (GDP) in most developing countries. However, woodworkers suffer from predicable but preventable health problems as a result of their work. This study therefore assessed the willingness and awareness to use health and safety practices among small scale woodworkers. The study adopteddescriptivesurvey design involving the administration of questionnaire to 50 small scale woodworkers. Data collected was analyse...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate into the nutritional status of the elderly, the nutritional challenges they faced, the challenges of the caregivers and the relationship between the challenges of the caregivers and the nutritional status of the elderly in Dambai. The study was based on the needs and family theory. Using survey design, data were collected from a hundred elderly with functional limitations and a hundred caregivers. Multiple methods of data collection were adopted f...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to find out the need for improvisation and identify the problem associated with the teaching of physical education especially in the face of dwindling resource mobilization in terms of equipment. The descriptive survey research method was used. Twenty-five (25) teachers in both Nabulo and Wallembelle circuits were randomly selected as sample for the study. A structured questionnaire which was face validated by my supervisor ( Dr J. A. Baba )...