ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate the attitude of teachers at St Peter’s JHS towards the use of ICT, to explain these attitudes and to capture what teachers think can be done to improve their attitudes towards the use of ICT for teaching and learning processes. Using purposive sampling techniques, a sample of 14 was selected. The study takes the form of a survey that makes use of an open ended questionnaire for data collection. The resulting data are analyzed...
ABSTRACT This study is aimed at examining the influence of Interactive method of teaching on the performance of Science teachers at the Evangelical Presbyterian Basic School, Sogakofe. Fifty pupils were purposively sampled for the study. The nature of the study was conventional research. Nine Integrated Science teachers were selected for the research. Questionnaires were administered to respondents and data was collected. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data in terms of frequ...
ABSTRACT The legal translation of terminological equivalence cannot be performed without considering legal cultural concepts and differences between legal systems. The level of equivalence of the terms depends on how legal systems relate and not on that of the languages involved. Given that culture is one of the key factors for quality translation of a legal document, thorough research on the cultures involved cannot afford to be overlooked. For this purpose, this study analyses this area ba...
ABSTRACT The oil and gas discovery and production in Ghana has given the country a new status which has invigorated the scholarly debate on the effects of oil and gas discovery on the socio-economic development of the citizenry. The discovery, and its subsequent production, at Ghana’s Jubilee fields was met with high expectations by the Ghanaian citizenry, especially those within the catchment areas, as far as enjoying quality job opportunities, socio-economic development in infrastructure,...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the processes that characterised the learning projects undertaken by the master automobile mechanics (MAMs) of Odawna in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana using a sample of 200. The objectives of the study were to find out how the MAMs learning projects were triggered, how the MAMs determined their learning objectives, content, methods of their learning and how they carried out evaluation of their learning projects. The study also examined the relationships bet...
ABSTRACT Adult education is conceived as activity that seeks to bring about improvements in the perceptual, intellectual, attitudinal and physical outlook of any adult and makes him/her function more effectively, economically, politically and socially.
INTRODUCTION Peer pressure is a phenomenon peculiar to the adolescent stage ( the teenage period).
ABSTRACT The aim of the study was to assess the quality of life among chronically ill patients. Specifically the study examined the effects of illness perception, socio-economic status, compliance with medication, religiousity and gender of the patient on quality of life. Ninety participants were selected from the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital to take part in the study. The ninety participants consisted of 30 diabetics, 30 hypertensives and 30 participants who were neither hypertensives nor diab...
ABSTRACT The study was set to find out community participation of sanitation programmes at Ashaiman. A sample of 98 community members was selected through a systematic random sampling technique from three out of eleven electoral areas and questionnaires were administered to five and officials from TMA sub-zonal office at Ashaiman. The major findings were that: 1. Most of the respondents were youth below 30 years who were mostly single. 2. The youth in the communities were not involved in any...
ABSTRACT Since the United Nations Declaration of the Decade for Women in 1975 following the global outcry of poor and low participation of women in decision making and in politics in the 1980s, the Government of Ghana with its institutions and international donor agencies and organisations started increasing their focus on empowering women by providing Non-Formal Education (NFE) programmes. This was to raise the women’s consciousness and to build their capacities and skills. The value assum...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effect of length of marriage on sources of marital problems among married female students of Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State. The population of married female students was 145; the sample was 103 of married female students. Descriptive survey designed was used. A simple random sampling method was used to select the married female students from the targeted school. Six hypotheses were raised and tested using Chi-square for data an...
Abstract Experiments on mulching, temperature, storage end inter-row spacing were conducted in the fie ld and laboratory during the major and minor seasons of 1973* with 21 introduced soybean varieties including H ill, Kent, CBS 486 and Aasoy 71. 1. Mulching Kxperiments Three varieties (H ill, Kent, GES 466) were grown in two field trials and a pot experiment with and without mulch applied after planting in 1973* Mulching decreased maximum soil temperature; maintained higher so il moisture co...
In any school mapping exercise, certain factors should be taken into consideration. This article explains some of these factors.
In any school mapping exercise, certain factors should be taken into consideration. This article explains some of the factors.
An experiment was conducted on a grey-brown sandy-clay soil of vertical classification, at the Agricultural Research. Station, Legon, to study the effect of 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, 8- and 10-weekly grazing on the performances of eight tropical grasses namely:- Cynodon aethiopicus, Cynodon nlemfuensis, Cynodon plectostachyus, Cenchrus ciliaris var Biloela, M git aria decumbens, Digit aria swazilandensis, Panicum. maximum and Paspalum pljcatulum. Srequent grazing reduced dry matter and green forage yie...