ABSTRACT Time may be the most valuable thing one deals with, and it can neither be bought nor recaptured. However, significant amount of this valuable resource is wasted by staff of institutions due to the activities of time wasters. The purpose of the study was to find out the existence or otherwise of time wasters and determine their perceived impact on the time management practices among staff of the district education offices in the Central Region. The time management control measures wer...
ABSTRACT The study investigated parental contribution towards the educational development of basic school pupils in the Dangme West District. It sought to assess major contributions parents make, their perceptions of the importance of contributing to pupil’s educational development and challenges they face. A total of 288 parents having their children in ten (10) basic schools and 40 teachers were randomly and purposively selected for the study. Pupils were randomly sampled from the selecte...
ABSTRACT This study sought out to investigate the influence of illegal mining on school attendance, dropout and academic performance of junior high school pupils in the Atwima Kwanwoma District in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, a convergent mixed method design was employed. The sample size for the quantitative study was 105, comprising 70 pupils and 35 parents. In the qualitative phase, a sample size of 8 comprising 4 pupils and 4 parents were emplo...
ABSTRACT The intention of this study is to improve the Christian Religious Studies curriculum. It presented difficulties encountered in order to support implementers with findings from the field. Many of such research have used traditional models for evaluation: Objective based models, Goal free evaluation models, experimental evaluation models and many more. The Context Input Process Product (CIPP) evaluation model was used in this study to evaluate the Christian Religious Studies curriculu...
ABSTRACT The study investigated perceptions of kindergarten teachers on the use of play as teaching technique in Afadjato South District, Volta Region. The study used concurrent triangulation mixed-methods design. A sample of 130 participants was selected for the study: 100 kindergarten teachers, 20 basic school heads and 10 school supervisors. Multistage (comprehensive selection, simple random and convenience) sampling technique was used to select the participants. Questionnaire and interv...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at examining the effect of Beck’s Cognitive Therapy on females who exhibit depressive symptoms due to their suffering from infertility in Cape Coast Metropolis. To achieve this, the study adopted the experimental design which included 29 infertile women, to better understand their thoughts, emotions and behaviours, purposive and census sampling techniques were used. These infertile women were grouped into experimental and control groups. Treatment was administered ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find out the factors influencing community participation in Expanded Programme for Immunization (EPI) in Elmina sub-District of Ghana. In this survey data were collected from 15 purposively selected community health nurses and 279 conveniently chosen community members. Five research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. Two questionnaires; health worker questionnaire and community members, were utilized for data collection. The results indica...
ABSTRACT The main aim of the study was to find out whether St. Joseph's College of Education’s Guidance and Counselling programme is effectively run and based on the findings make the necessary recommendations to improve the programme. Descriptive research design was used for the study, in which questionnaires were used to collect data. Frequencies and percentages were used to organise the data in tables. These helped in answering the six research questions posed. The target population for...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the types of application programs, other lCT facilities and their accessories used by the staff in their work. The study also covered location of lCT facilities; the capacity of the staff to use lCT facilities; their level of knowledge in relation to the use of the lCT facilities; frequency of staff use of computers and other ICT facilities in their work; staff awareness of comrnittees" sections and units that cater for lCT needs of the University; and finally ...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the status and quality of science teaching and learning in some selected Junior High Schools of the Sunyani Municipality. The research involved 10 randomly selected schools within the Sunyani Municipality. A total of 100 pupils were selected in addition to 20 Integrated Science teachers. The study was a descriptive survey. A self -constructed questionnaire (SCQ), structured observation checklists and interviews were the main instruments for the data coll...
ABSTRACT This study examined the perception of preservice mathematics teachers on cognitive needs, TPACK levels and altruistic to teaching mathematics. The research design employed was the mixed methods approach specifically sequential explanation mixed methods. The population for this study was preservice mathematics teachers at the University of Education, Winneba of Ghana. The study employed the purposive sampling technique specifically homogeneous sampling technique to select level 300 ma...
ABSTRACT The main objective was to look at/examine the part play by internal financial management in the smooth administration of the selected Senior High Schools within suburb of Ashanti Region. Data were mainly Secondary type and have been gathered from the financial report / statement, of the selected Schools in Ashanti Region. These include the income statement, financial position or balance sheets for the period of four years (2012 to 2015), main cash books, journal and students b...
ABSTRACT The study sought to improve the achievements and attitude of students in qualitative analysis through the cooperative teaching and learning approach. The study used action research design. A total of 71 S H S science Students (participants) were selected from Tumu Senior High Technical School and Kanton Senior High School for the study. Data for the study were collected using achievement tests and the Treatment Verification Checklist. The Treatment Verification Checklist sought res...
ABSTRACT This is an evaluative study of the implementation of the programme of instruction developed for social studies in the teacher training colleges (TTCs) of Ghana. Data obtained through interviews with principals, questionnaires administered to and discussions held with tutors and students as well as field observation have been combined with material from documentary sources. A conceptual framework put forward for the project emphasises an 'illumino-process' evaluation of a curriculum w...
ABSTRACT This study is about inclusive education in two pilot schools in Manya Krobo District. The methodology utilized was qualitative. It mainly involved the use of interviews and observation as the method for data collection. In all 31 respondents were conveniently sampled for the study and were made up of 12 teachers and 19 pupils from four different categories of disabilities. Analysis of the data revealed that the teachers had no idea about inclusive education. The teach...