ABSTRACT The study investigated the impact of Science Resource Centre Project III on students’ performance in biology in some selected schools in Upper West Region, Ghana. The study adopted a quantitative survey design. The study involved 6 biology teachers and 6 heads of departments from 6 public senior high schools and two batches of final year biology students (2013 and 2015 batches) were used to collect data for the study. The 12 teachers and 6 schools chosen as participants were purpos...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of the study was to give suggestions to facilitate student‟s‟ learning of physics using science process skills at Bolgatanga Senior High School in the Upper East Region of Ghana. This was to be achieved through the use of group activity approach and the organisations of laboratory practical activities. The study was an Action Research that used fifty five second year students out of a population of 680 physics students in the school based on purposive sampling pr...
ABSTRACT This study presents the use of cooperative learning method that improved Integrated Science teaching in a comfortable non-threatening setting. It assessed the effects of cooperative learning and traditional learning methods on achievement of form two students in Integrated Science . This is an experimental study in which cooperative learning method - Student Team Achievement Division, developed by Slavin is selected as a teaching method and as a form of intervention and compared to t...
The interest of Senior High School (SHS) students towards the study of science has declined in many countries across the globe including Ghana. On the 14th-15th of November, 2005 member countries of organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) met in Amsterdam to discuss the Declining Students Enrollment in sciences and technology, and suggested that graduates turn out in the sciences in some member countries showed a drop of 30%-50% over the last 8- 10years. West African Exa...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to compare the activity-based and discussion methods of teaching and learning of seed germination: a case study in Anyinasu M/A Junior High School. Thirty pupils were involved in the study. The pupils were put into two groups (Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’). Group ‘A’ of 15 pupils were taught seed germination using discussion method whiles Group ‘B’ also made up of 15 pupils, were taught the same concept using activity-based approach. The two group...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at helping SHS 2 Home Economics students’ of Diabene Senior High Technical School, Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana, on their performance in both class test and examinations in Integrated Science. Out of two hundred and fifty (250) students, one hundred and five (105) students made up of 95 boys and 10 girls were selected as sample size. The method for the sampling exercise was simple random sampling. Data were collected through interviews, observations and t...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at improving students‟ understanding of the concept of acid strength in Kusanaba Senior High School through the use of computer animations. A practical approach to instruction was adopted while using computer animations as a corrective tool to students‟ misunderstanding of the concept under study. The fact that the sample consisted of two different classes taught by the Researcher, each having different subject/time schedules and partly because it was not disclose...
ABSTRACT The main objective of this study was to find out the influence of virtual physics laboratory on students‟ performance in motion. The total population for the study was 63 second year science students of Bishop Herman College, Kpando; 42 in the control group and 21 in the experimental. Quasi-experimental design was adopted in this study. Questionnaire, test and opinionnaire were the researched instrument used. The data were analyzed by using SPSS 16.0 statistical analysis program. D...
ABSTRACT This research was conducted to investigate the effects of using teaching learning materials (TLMs) and learner-centred approach on performance in physics in Colleges of Education in Ghana. The target population comprised 15 science and mathematics colleges of education in Ghana. The accessible population consisted of 3 colleges out of the 15 science and mathematics colleges of education consistingof second year science students and their physics tutors in Central and Western Regions ...
ABSTRACT The study took place in Winneba Senior High School. The study involved a whole class of first year Home Economics One students in Winneba Senior High School, Winneba, selected through purposive and convenience sampling technique, totalling forty (40) students (thirty-nine female and one male). Test, questionnaire and interview were the main instrument used to collect data for the study. The researcher developed Multimodal Instructional Approaches to teach some selected topics in inte...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the use of concept mapping teaching method on Senior high school students’ academic achievement in chemistry. The design of the study was quasi-experimental design with 54 elective science Senior High students selected purposively from Wenchi Senior High School in Brong – Ahafo Region. Twenty – seven (27)students were used for both the control and experimental groups. Experimental groups were taught using concept mapping teaching strategy while Control gr...
ABSTRACT The study was designed to enhance the students’ academic performance in solubility and enthalpy change as topics in chemistry through the use of laboratory- based practical activities. The following were the objectives of the study: to determine students’ pre-conceptions on solubility and enthalpy change before the practical activities, to evaluate the effect of the use of practical activities on students’ performance on studying solubility and enthalpy change and to determine ...
ABSTRACT This study used guided discovery and self learning strategies as intervention to improve academic performance of students in biology at Wenchi Senior High School in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. The study investigated whether the guided discovery and self learning approaches can provide opportunity to inculcate science process skills and to identify which science process skills are inculcated during science lessons.The study employed case study design using action research approac...
This chapter tells about how this study was conceived. A narration of the Researcher’s experiences about a search for analysed results of B.E.C.E. in integrated science has been given. The Researcher noting that apparently no records of systematically analysed B.E.C.E. results existed at the Municipal office was motivated to research how to find previous B.E.C.E. results in Integrated Science in the Municipality, analyse and document them. Further, the Researcher bemoans the death of statis...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) on students’ achievement in mole concept. The study was quasi-experimental research and nonrandomized control group pre-test – post-test design. The target population consisted of students in the four public Colleges of Education in the Northern Region of Ghana. The accessible population was level hundred students in Tamale College of Education. Purposive sampling was used to obtain a sample of e...