ABSTRACT At a time in the nation's history when government policy was in the direction of community participation in the educational delivery process, this research was undertaken to establish the effect the attitudes of School Management Committee members have on the academic performance of their respective basic schools. The study centred on school communities in the ShamaAhanta East Metropolitan area of the Western Region of Ghana. The metropolitan area has quite a good number of basic sch...
ABSTRACT The study focused on female participation in tertiary education in the Tolon-Kumbungu District in the northern region of Ghana. The main objective of the study was to assess factors which affect female access to and participation in tertiary institutions in the district. The descriptive survey design was used for the study. The sample size for the study was made up of 86 respondents. These comprised 23 female school drop outs, 36 teachers and 20 parents. The data collection instrumen...
ABSTRACT Motivation of workers is a very important aspect in the work force of any type. Teachers like all other workers need to be motivated to enable them function effectively and efficiently in their profession. The purpose of the study was to identify the factors which influence teacher job satisfaction in the Armed Forces Schools in Kumasi. In particular, the causes of teacher job satisfaction, effects of teacher job satisfaction, the relationship between gender as well as the relationsh...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to find out the challenges teachers in the Eastern Region of Ghana encountered when they visited their various District Education Offices to seek solutions to their problems. The study also sought to find out Management's challenges with regard to unacceptable behaviour and attitudes exhibited by some workers at District Education Offices. The sample for the study comprised 10 district directors, 40 frontline officers, 400 teachers and 150 workers at dist...
ABSTRACT This case study of student perception of their participation in decision-making in Dormaa Secondary School was prompted by an observation that the student leaders or prefects of the school do not sometimes perform their prefectural duties as expected. The study explored the perceptions of students of their participation in decision-making, the actual and desired areas of student participation in decision-making, the degree of student satisfaction with their involvement in decision-m...
ABSTRACT The study examined school drop-out among pupils at the Basic Education level in Songor Ramsar Site in the Dangme East District of the Greater Accra Region. The schools in this area were found in settlements called Wekumagbe, Akplabanya, Anyamam, Goi, and Lolonya. A survey was carried out using a combination of cluster, purposive, snowball and simple random sampling techniques. A sample of 110 respondents was selected from Akplabanya and Anyamam Basic Schools. The Study revealed tha...
ABSTRACT Effective management of official time has been identified as an important resource to increase productivity in schools. One of the problems facing heads in administering schools is how to manage time to improve quality teaching and learning. The purpose of the study was to examine whether work behaviors, years of experience and amount of training in time Senior Secondary Schools in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Stratified random sampling was used in selecting the districts so that th...
ABSTRACT The development of every nation is contingent on the quality of educational system in place. The study was conducted to find out the supervisory practices of public JHS and private JHS of Cape Coast Metropolis. The sample of the study consisted of 606 respondents. Simple random and stratified sampling procedures were used to select the respondents. Four research questions were formulated to guide the study. Documentary evidence, interview guide and questionnaire were the research in...
ABSTRACT Time management is a conscious control of the amount of time spent on work activities in order to maximize personal efficiency. In nearly all institutions, there are many trivial events that waste time that have to be identified and separated from the vital few on which scarce time must really be spent. The study attempted to investigate time wasters which inhibit the amount of planned time spent on work in University of Education, Winneba (UEW) by educational administrators and adm...
ABSTRACT There have been low mobilisation and poor allocation of funds to education in Nigeria. Studies have shown over the years that, there have been fluctuations in the budgetary allocation to education. The attendant effects of this are late payment of salaries, inadequate staff and dilapidated infrastructure. This therefore, resulted in repeated poor students’ achievement in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination in public secondary schools in Nigeria. Though studies h...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effectives of instructional supervision at the Agogo College of Education since instructional supervision is a core principle in teacher education and professional teacher practice. The descriptive research design was adopted for this study and the population comprised students, tutors and administrators. A sample of 108 students covering all year levels and 36 tutors and administrators were used for the data collection. A self-administered questionnaire,...
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 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 The study was to find out the incidence of teenage pregnancy among Junior High Schools girls in the Yilo Krobo District. The incidence of teenage pregnancy among school girls has been of great concern to government and other stakeholders in education in Ghana. Four research questions were formulated to guide the study. A questionnaire was designed for 360 JHS girls’ students, 12 girl child coordinators and 30 sampled parents of the PTA. Random sampling and purposive sampling techni...