ABSTRACT This study aimed at investigating pre-school teachers’ perception of the challenges facing preschool education in Shama District. Descriptive survey design was used in the study. Questionnaire was used to collect data from 200 preschool teachers teaching in Pre-schools in Shama District. Frequency counts, percentages, means as well as analysis of variance (ANOVA) were employed to analyze the data. The results revealed that most pre-schools within the Shama District do not apply go...
ABSTRACT Knowledge about the glycaemic load of a food is very important in minimizing the prevalence of diabetes and other Non-Communicable Diseases. This study seeks to determine the glycaemic load of varieties of fufu that are often eaten in Ghana. The study was a crossover experimental study which used 10 healthy participants, who were given 50 g of pure glucose and subsequently served with a measured amount of test foods; cassava – plantain fufu, cassava – cocoyam fufu and cassava �...
ABSTRACT The colleges of education in Ghana have been involved in continuous professional development for over four years with support of Transforming Teacher Education and Learning (T-TEL). The main purpose of this research was to assess the perceived impact of the continuous professional development programme on physics teaching at the colleges of education. The study employed a mixed method design specifically concurrent parallel design. An online survey was conducted which was followed ...
ABSTRACT The study was on transitional challenges facing colleges of education in the Volta Region. The purpose of the study was to unveil transitional challenges and how the colleges manage the challenges to achieve their goals. The research was guided by three research questions which were on the kinds of transitional challenges facing the colleges, effects of the challenges on the training of teacher trainees, and coping strategies. The study used descriptive survey. Simple random samplin...
ABSTRACT An important musical type that supports farmers’ activities at Kpandu and its environs, to ensure their welfare and survival through subsistence farming is agblehawo, a term which literally means “farmers’ music”. This study sought to explain why the s4hewo (the youth), of Kpandu up to date, cling to the performance of agblehawo in the face of other varied forms of music to which they are exposed. To explain this socio-musical behaviour of the s4hewo, the conceptual framework...
ABSTRACT Reports about the huge number of children involving in fishing and its tremendous impacts should be of grave concern to all. Fishing labour market in Keta municipality is shaping children’s schooling behaviour where some pupils are combining schooling with fishing. This study investigated the effects of fishing activities on school attendance and academic performance of pupils in the area. Data was collected using questionnaires, pupils' attendance register and examination scores....
ABSTRACT The study assessed factors affecting girl-child participation in basic education in the Elmina Circuit of the KEEA Municipality. It specifically dealt with the socio-economic and socio-cultural factors that affected girl-child participation in basic schools in the Circuit. It also assessed school-related factors such as teacher factors, school boys’ factors, and school facility factors affecting girl-child participation in education. A descriptive research design was adopted for th...
ABSRTACT The purpose of the study was to find out the main causes that accounted for the low participation and retention of the girl-child at the basic level of education in the Wasa Amenfi District of the Western Region of Ghana. The study period covered September 1997 to August 2004. The descriptive survey desigll was adopted. Samples were drawn from five (5) circuits out of the 13 circuits of the Wasa Amenfi District. Respondents were made up of 476 parents/guardians, 150 teachers/circuit ...
ABSTRACT Studies have shown that student-teachers are performing below expectation in the Teaching Practice (TP) exercise; a core aspect of the College of Education (CoE) curriculum. This TP poor performance trend in the CoE has been partly attributed to anxiety among the student-teachers. However, previous studies on TP performance have been limited to impacts of supervision issues, students‟ demographic factors, excess workload, duration of the exercise, planning and preparation problems...
ABSTRACT The study assessed the impact of Diamond Cement Factory Ghana limited on health and safety of workers and the people in Aflao Township. The researcher used descriptive and interpretive research design for the study. Qualitative and quantitative research approaches were used. The population for this study involved the Management and Workers of Aflao Diamond Cement Limited and nearby residents of the Cement factory in the Volta Region of Ghana. Random sampling technique was used...
ABSTRACT The main aim of the study was to investigate what accounts for the low proportion of female participation in the study of physics at University Cape Coast (UCC) compared to biology and chemistry. The study also identified practical methods or ways that could be employed to make physics more appealing to female students in order to encourage greater female participation in the subject beyond Senior Secondary School (SSS) level. The target population for the study comprised 208 female ...
ABSTRACT The issue of poor academic performance of pupils in the Ghanaian Basic Schools has become a societal concern. Public outcry through Media reports on almost a daily basis to the view that children are not studying hard enough attests to this fact. While some think that schools lack the basic educational resources others think that standards have fallen because of the lack of adequate supervision. Some even assert that the curriculum is too bookish and the period too short. To this sch...
ABSTRACT To yield the educational value of music education in schools, most music educators align music education with aesthetic education. Accordingly, the development of the aesthetic responsiveness and sensitivities of students have been widely embraced. Yet, there is little or no information regarding the delivery of music education which, in part, can contribute to the evocation of important aesthetic experience in listeners. This research work was an attempt to study the aesthetic respo...
ABSTRACT This study examines kindergarten teachers’ perceptions of classroom management strategies in managing kindergarten pupils. The study employed concurrent mixed method design, underpinned by the pragmatic philosophical thought. Data were collected in two phases using a four-point Likert-type questionnaire and observation schedule. At the quantitative phase, a questionnaire was administered to teachers while the qualitative phase involved observation and interview of class teachers. ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to look at Conflict Management and Resolution between Headmasters and teachers in Senior High Schools in the Ahafo–Ano North District of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Data was collected from a sample of 72 teachers out of the population of 122 from the two Senior High Schools in the district. The administration of a questionnaire was followed by an interview schedule. The analysis of data involved the use of descriptive statistical methods, particularly...