ABSTRACT The purpose of the study is to find out the extent to which teachers faithfully commit themselves to the fidelity approach to curriculum implementation in transacting the Core English curriculum. The main design used in the study was descriptive survey. The study covered all the seven public senior secondary schools in Sunyani District in the Brong Ahafo region ofGhana. The sample comprised 150 students and all the 31 teachers of English. The number of students selected from each sch...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study is to find out the extent to which teachers faithfully commit themselves to the fidelity approach to curriculum implementation in transacting the Core English curriculum. The main design used in the study was descriptive survey. The study covered all the seven public senior secondary schools in Sunyani District in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana. The sample comprised 150 students and all the 31 teachers of English. The number of students selected from each sc...
ABSTRACT The study examined the In-In-Out Programme of Teacher Training Colleges in Ghana, using Tamale Training College as a case study, with the intent of identitYing the challenges associated with the programme. Questionnaire and interviews were used to collect data from the Principal, Vice Principals, Link tutors, mentees [rom Tamale Training College, mentors and lead mentors [rom schools of attachment and district directors of education [or Tamale Metropolis , . and East Gonja District. ...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the attitude of teacher trainees towards the study of science in the Colleges of Education. The study sought to look at students‟ attitude from four (4) significant perspectives namely; interest to do science, motivation to do science, level of students‟ involvement in science lessons and the type of interpersonal relationship between science teachers and students. The study also considered the effect of practical activities on students‟ performance as ...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to find the challenges and prospects facing students of distance education in Ghanaian public universities: the case of University of Cape Coast study centre. The sample for the study were twenty teachers and two hundred students making a total of two hundred and twenty respondents. The respondents were selected from` Cape Coast distance education study centre at Oyoko Methodist senior high school in the Koforidua municipality. Questionnaires were used to coll...
ABSTRACT The study is about the counselling needs of students in the Polytechnic in the Wa Municipality. Using a descriptive survey design with a quantitative approach, the researcher used a sample of 810 students drawn from the Wa Polytechnic through the census sampling technique. A Questionnaire developed by the researcher with a composite reliability coefficient of .91 was used to collect data for the study. Descriptive and inferential statistical tools (Independent sample t-test and One-W...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to investigate the predictive validity of students’ senior high school certificate examination (SHSCE) entry aggregate on their final year cumulative grade-point average (GPA) at the University of Cape Coast. The study covered the year groups from 1999 to 2001 involving five departments under the Faculty of Education at the University of Cape Coast. A total of 1,216 subjects consisting of 403 females and 813 males formed the study population. The research de...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to use instructional materials to help level "100A" students of Atebubu College of Education have better conceptual understanding of reflection and refraction of light. The study was an action research which falls under descriptive research design. The population of the study was all students of Atebubu College of Education. The target population for the research was all the Level 100 students of Atebubu College of Education but the accessible populatio...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to explore the learning approaches deaf students at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) adopt and their implications on the students’ academic performance. Data were gathered from 31 out of 41 deaf students. The participants were purposively sampled from level 200, 300 and 400. Data were gathered through ASSIST (1998) questionnaire and students’ academic records. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, independent samples t-test and...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank sincerely Dr. AL. Dare, my supervisor, mentor and Director ofIEPA who supervised me meticulously and ensured that my work was brought to an appreciable standard. Special thanks also go to Dr. IS.K .Owusu who whipped up my enthusiasm and encouraged me to select a topic on financial administration in a public institution of a country for study. I am equally. grateful to all the other lecturers at the Institut~ of Educational Planning and Administration and...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to identify the pertinent factors affecting parents’ choice of a particular senior high school in Ghana. Specifically, the study examines the type of schools parents in the Cape Coast Metropolis choose for their children, and some of the school’s institutional factors that parents look for in deciding the choice of a particular school for their children. The design used for the study was descriptive survey design. A total of 294 parents completed the ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to compare the level of knowledge, attitude and practice of breast self-examination among nurses in Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital of the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis in the Western Region of Ghana. Five research questions were formulated to guide the study. The descriptive design was used to conduct the study. The accessible population consisted of 229 nurses working at the regional hospital in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis where the sample population ...
ABSTRACT The study examined the level of participation of mathematics tutors in T-TEL professional development sessions (PDS) and their perceived self-efficacy beliefs to implement the new 4-year B.Ed. mathematics curriculum in the Colleges of Education in Northern Ghana. The study adopted the mixed methods survey approach that involves concurrent triangulation of data. The sample was made up of 39 participants comprising 37 male mathematics tutors and 2 female mathematics tutors, among whi...
ABSTRACT The study explored the extent of ICT integration in teaching and learning of mathematics among Colleges of Education (CsE) mathematics tutors in Ghana. It also investigated factors that influence ICT integration in teaching and learning of mathematics in the CsE in Ghana. This study utilized the Constructivist theory, Technology Acceptance Model and the Concerned Based Adoption Model as its theoretical frameworks. The study which included forty-four (44) CsE mathematics tutors utili...
ABSTRACT Waste management practices of urban and rural basic school students in the study area were compared. Generally the study focused on the types of refuse generated, refuse management practices, the re-use of refuse as a waste management practice, human faecal disposal practices, the use of environmental related clubs for health education and waste management as well as student-toiletratio in urban and rural basic schools in the study area. Simple random sampling procedure was used to s...