ABSTRACT Multigrade schools refer to schools which combine different classes in the same classroom setting. The Asunafo North District in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana has 17 of such schools. Multigrade schools become necessary where teachers are in short supply or where enrolment figures are so low that they cannot justify the appointment of teachers for separate classes especially in the remote and hard-to-reach areas. The study sought to have an in depth assessment of multigrade schools ...
ABSTRACT This research was carried out in 13 Senior High Schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis with the aim of evaluating the impacts of national educational reform programmes (1974-2007) on the Senior High School Social Studies Curriculum. Data collected were analysed with the use of SPSS version 21. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. The study employed both the quantitative and qualitative methods which provided the researcher the opportunity to corroborate findings ac...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate the effects of using cooperative learning on female teacher trainees of the Colleges of Education in learning some selected topics in Integrated Science. The investigation also sought to determine whether the Cooperative Learning Approach enhances the attitude and motivation of the trainees towards learning of Integrated Science. The study was carried out at the St. Monica’s College of Education in the Mampong Municipality of the Ashanti Region. In a...
ABSTRACT The point to which caregivers are satisfied with the care they receive for themselves and their children from the health professionals, has increasingly become an issue for all stakeholders concerned with improving health outcomes. The Salvation Army Community Rehabilitation and Orthopaedic Centre Agona–Duakwa, provides rehabilitation services to children with cerebral palsy and for their caregivers. These caregivers mostly seek these services to address the problems of their chi...
ABSTRACT The study investigated teaching and learning resources available for teaching mathematics at the Senior High School (SHS) level in the Western region of Ghana. Specifically, it tried to find out the available resources and if they differ among the school categories, the state of the available resources, teachers’ access to the available resources and the difference in the use of the resources across sex, academic qualification and school categories. The study used pragmatist paradi...
ABSTRACT This research study was an action research which involved a sample of fifty-four (54) students of form 3 General Arts ‘A’ class of Mansoman Senior High School in the Amansie West District of Ashanti Region, selected purposely for the study. The study was aimed at improving the performance of students in mensuration tasks involving areas and volumes of cylinders, cones and spheres. Pre-test and post-test were used in data collection. Pre-test and post-test scores obtained by...
ABSTRACT The principal focus of the study was to investigate the comparative effect of the extent to which analogy-based and animation-based instructional approaches influence senior high school students’ cognitive achievement (academic performance and retention) in biological molecular concepts especially in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) structure and replication, transcription and translation concepts. Four research questions with two hypotheses guided the study and tested at 0.05 level of ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the problems SHS Chemistry students faced in naming organic compounds especially hydrocarbons by IUPAC rules at Zion College Senior High School in the Keta Municipality. The research work established if there was a significant difference between the performance of students taught by the traditional method and those taught using molecular models. It also considered whether if there was significant difference between the performance of boys and girls in t...
ABSTRACT The purpose ofthe study was to examine the roles past students play in some selected second cycle schools some years after completing school. The study also examined the perception ofschool heads and their assistants on the activities of Past Students' Associations in their schools as :-veil as problems they encountered when dealing with such interest groups. The views of Assistant Directors and Directors of the Municipal and Regional Education Directorate were sought. The study was ...
ABSTRACT So far as the musical interculturalism in African art music is concerned today, this study focuses on how an artist acquainted with both traditional music and western contemporary practices can create a novel piano piece that is a hybrid of the two worlds. The study adopts the bi-musicality and African pianism theories of Euba (1992) and Webster’s (1996) creative thinking model as its conceptual framework. In the composition, themes were borrowed from ‘Kyekyekule’ (a children�...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to examine the perception on curriculum supervision among curriculum leaders and teachers in Senior High Schools in the Assin North Municipality of Ghana. Descriptive survey was adopted for the study. Purposive sampling procedure was employed to select 44 curriculum leaders and convenient sampling procedure was employed to select 120 teachers for the study. Questionnaire was used to elicit responses from both curriculum leaders and teachers. Statistical Produc...
ABSTRACT The study looked to investigate the effects of social media on literacy development among pupils in junior high schools. The study was aimed at finding pupils’ perception about the nature of literacy, identifying major social media network sites and their mass usage among pupils as well as the effects of social media and social networking sites on pupils’ language learning and literacy development within the context of sociocultural and social learning theories. To achieve the ...
ABSTRACT Conflict is an unavoidable aspect of organizational life. It can either energize the organization or degenerate into a war of words and actions. Takoradi polytechnic is no exception. The study identified the causes of conflict among staff of Takoradi polytechnic; examined the positive and negative effects and recommends how they can be managed effectively. The research which involved 273 respondents, employed the descriptive case study survey and data collected through questionnaire...
ABSTRACT The study sought the possibility of integrating Social Studies with Science in Colleges of Education in Ghana. Many educators have perceived the necessity for a paradigm shift toward interdisciplinary teaching. As mentioned by Campbell and Henning (2010), knowledge today is becoming more interdisciplinary and integrated, which calls for interdisciplinary and integrated learning in public schools. The main purpose of the study was to explore the integrated curriculum approach to the ...
ABSTRACT This study explored the effectiveness of the use of video-based instruction on students’ relational understanding, their attitudes toward it, and their tendency to collaborative, in learning solid mensuration, in the Birim Central Municipality of Ghana. A mixed methods concurrent triangulation research design, embedded with one-group pre-test and post-test quasi-experimental design was employed. The same treatment and methodologies were used on two intact classes (𝑛 = 43 and �...