ABSTRACT The District Education Strategic Plan initiative adopted within the Education sector in Ghana emphasizes on the need for stakeholders’ participation in education planning process at the local or community level. The rationale behind this initiative was to cultivate and ensure stakeholders’ involvement and commitment in the management of education at local level to improve quality and standards. This study aims at assessing the stakeholders’ level of participation in the manage...
ABSTRACT General building infrastructure constitute a higher proportion of the country’s investment. It is therefore of primary importance that, these facilities are free from defects in order that, they can serve both the architectural and aesthetical functions for which they were provided. It is the responsibility of Government through District Assemblies to provide befitting residential facilities for its staff in the districts. The aim of the study was to examine defects in District As...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find out the strategies teachers use in managing children with inappropriate behaviours in selected basic schools in Sandema in the Upper East Region of Ghana. This study employed a mixed method research design to guide the study. The sample size was 36 respondents. Questionnaire in the form of a Likert-type scale was used to collect data for the study. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistical methods. The results revealed that ...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to find out the relevance of auditing and assurance services to the public institutions in Ghana. The objective of the study was to examine the relevance of auditing and assurance services in the public institutions in Ghana. The research instrument used to collect data was questionnaires. The questionnaires was administered to three (3) public institutions where 100 employees were given questionnaires. A sample of 100 respondents was selected randomly fro...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the impact and the importance of the use of circle diagrams in the application of circle theorems towards geometry instructions. This study sought to find out what type of instructional approach mathematics teachers use in delivering the concept of circle theorems in mathematics classrooms. Also to find out perceptions students hold towards the learning of circle theorems in geometry. The study also sought to look at the extent diagrams can be used to improve ...
ABSTRACT The main aim of this study was to examine the challenges of financial management practices of pharmaceutical companies in Ghana using three selected pharmaceutical companies in Kumasi Metropolis. This was as a result of the fact that pharmaceutical firms mainly focus on bank loans and equity as their main source of funds in financing their operations giving less attention to efficient working capital as a feasible option. A set of questionnaires was administered on 25 persons from ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate the knowledge and practice of differentiated instruction by primary school teachers in the Mampong municipality of Ghana. The study employed a sequential explanatory design within the mixed method approach. The study employed stratified sampling technique to select a sample of 135 primary school teachers from Mampong municipality of Ghana for the quantitative study and from which 9 teachers were selected for the qualitative study. The researcher used ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effect of Computer Simulation and concept model on selected Senior High School conceptual understanding of cell cycle. The target population was SHS biology students in the Central Region of Ghana. The accessible population was second year elective biology students in Mfantseman Municipality in the Central Region. The study employed quasi-experimental design and 70 second year elective biology students were purposively selected to participate in the stud...
ABSTRACT The study sought to explore and examine the competence basic school mathematics supervisors possess in ensuring effective mathematics education delivery in the Ghanaian basic schools. A cross sectional descriptive survey research design was undertaken with an adopted conceptual framework from Niss and Jensen (2002). The conceptual framework enumerates the kinds of competence expected of a mathematics student, teacher or supervisors. The sample for the study comprised mathematics tea...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effect of integration of computer technology such as computer animation into the teaching and learning of nuclear physics. The study involved one class of form three physics students in Anglican Senior High School in Kumasi. Purposive and convenience sampling techniques were used to select 70 students (13 females and 57 males). Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected using test and unstructured interviews respectively. The students wrote a p...
ABSTRACT The study investigated attitude of students in the University of Education, Winneba towards nutrition information on food labels. The study adopted the cross-sectional survey designand involved344 respondents randomly sampled from a target population of about 15,778 students.Data collection was done by online survey using a questionnaire designed with Google Forms. The study found among other things, that:level of awareness of respondents about nutritional information on food labels...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this research was to investigate the vocational training programmes for persons with intellectual disabilities at the Dzorwulu Special School. A total sample of seven (7) respondents were selected with the purposive sampling strategy. Basically, the interview guide was the research instrument used in the study. The study found that there are different kinds of vocational training programmes for persons with intellectual disabilities in the Dzorwulu Special School. Som...
ABSTRACT The study explored the internship experiences of the IEPA students, UCC. This was proposed against the backdrop of a dearth of empirical evidence concerning how the internship experiences of IEPA students have prepared them for their professional endeavours. The study was underpinned by the convergent parallel mixed methods design. The study adopted the census approach to research where all individuals in the target study population were studied. In all, data was collected from 50 IE...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the use of epistemic modality in two selected State of the Nation Addresses delivered by Ex-president John Agyekum Kufour of Ghana on 16th February, 2001 and 14th February, 2008respectively. The two texts were purposely selected, closely read and analyzed through mixed method of qualitative and quantitative dimensions. The analysis employs analytical frameworks of Kratzer’s Context-dependency and Lexical Specialization and Halliday and Matthiessen Modal Tax...
ABSTRACT The study sought to evaluate the implementation of the National Literacy Acceleration Programme (NALAP) and to assess progress made so far after the implementation. This study again sought to assess how the teaching of language and literacy from the Kindergarten to primary three was implemented as a follow-up to the NALAP which is bi-literacy language programme and whether the methods, strategies and materials of NALAP were effectively used. It was also to investigate the extent to ...