ABSTRACT The study was designed to improve students’ academic achievements in physics. It was the belief of the author that if students’ were allowed to develop higher cognitive processes through problem-solving instructional strategy using the five step problem solving heuristic proposed by Williams, Metcalfe, Trinklein and Lefler, called the Modern Physics Problem Solving Rule, it might improve positively their academic performance and for that matter increase their interest in physic...
ABSTRACT Walter K4mla Blege is a seasoned African art musician who uses his music to defend the cause of black Africans. He studied music at Mawuli Secondary School, Ho in the Volta Region of Ghana under the tutelage of Nicholas Zinzendorf Nayo and has continued by self-taught approaches to become a brilliant and prolific composer. This work, therefore, seeks to meticulously study and unearth the enviable compositional traits found in his works. It examines how he uses dances and other indi...
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 Contextdependency and Lexical Specialization and Halliday and Matthiessen Modal ...
ABSTRACT Support for media literacy education has grown significantly in recent years with teachers and students advocating for its inclusion in the curricula. However, there are manifest differences in the ways people use media in teaching and learning of school subjects as well as in the level of their competence. This study assessed media literacy in teaching and learning of English Language in Basic Schools in the NsawamAdoagyiri Municipality. In order to achieve the purpose of the study...
ABSTRACT This research seeks to discuss Totemism: its influence on the Akan Youth of Ghana touching on the types of totems, the philosophical and literal meanings of the totems and conservation of biodiversity. These totems have so much hidden knowledge to be learnt but most of the youth are ignorant about them. This problem can be associated to ignorance, adulteration of culture, improper documentation and the over reliance on adulterated oral history. The research seeks to bring to b...
Abstract The present study was an attempt to explore the correlation between learning styles of SHS students and their academic performances in science in the Gomoa East district of Ghana. The target population of the study was all the students in the Gomoa district. The accessible population was students in the two public senior high schools in the Gomoa East district. The study was conducted using a sample size of 280 students. The instruments used for the study were adapted „VAK Learni...
ABSTRACT This project involved discovering the musical backgrounds of beginning music students of UEW. The goal was to show how their prior learning affects their musical abilities and their individual interests. All level 100 students‘ background was investigated using a questionnaire. Data was analyzed using quantitative statistics and presented in tabular form containing the number of responses per item (frequency) and the percentage of each response via graphs. The findings indicat...
ABSTRACT The industrial waste and metal by-products such as steel fibers, synthetic fibers, carbon fibers and steel particles can be used as reinforcement materials since they possess reinforcement properties. Steel particles are produced in millions of tons per year as waste material in metal shops. This enormous waste is currently not being harnessed productively in the metal shops in the Central Region of the Republic of Ghana. In most cases, they are indiscriminately dumped into the...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to improve students’ attitudes and achievements in physics using astronomical models at Komenda College of Education, Central Region. A quasi-experimental design was adopted for the study using the single group pre-test post-test design. Intact class which consists of second year science 2 ‘’A’’ and science 2 ‘’B’’ science students studying elective Physics were used for the study. Forty (40) second year science students studying elect...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the perceptions and attitudes of tutors of Colleges of Education towards student-athletes in selected variables of behaviour in the Upper East Region of Ghana. A quantitative research approach was used for the study. The research techniques used were the descriptive method along with the correlation method. The significance of the study was that it would provide insights to tutors on how they can adopt a favourable attitude towards students who particip...
ABSTRACT In every aspect of human life, language is an important form of communication and that is one of the skills that the school system seeks to develop. Ghana as multilingual country has a challenge to meet due to the numerous languages that students are exposed to. This makes it difficult to effectively learn the target language. In order to communicate well with students in the English language classroom (L 2), teachers code-switch for several pedagogic reasons. This study sought to ...
ABSTRACT This Study was carried out to evaluate the influence of students’attitudes towards Physical Education among S.H.S students in Kwahu Afram Plains. Descriptive survey research design was used for this study. The researcher sought to measure the intangible variable attitude which is not directly observable but must be inferred from responses made by the subject to questionnaire. In all six schools were purposively sampled. A sampled size of 258 respondents from the six schools ...
ABSTRACT Budgeting is a form of financial planning and a control mechanism in an organization. Thus, it is utilized to impose the strategy of an organization. Consequently, a budget is composed of different functional plans that could help both short and long term development of an organization. The Kwadaso SDA Hospital is decentralized private organization and it engages in the preparation of annual budgets to facilitate its financial operations. However, the budget preparation, implementat...
Abstract The purpose of this study was to assess the involvement of blocked and random practices in acquisition, retention and transfer in teaching basketball skills in Senior High Schools. A quasi-experimental design was used for this study. 60 participants were selected from Presbyterian Senior High School, Accra using simple random and purposive sampling techniques. Participants were assigned (n = 30) to Blocked Practice Group (BPG) and Random Practice Group (RPG) respectively. The study ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the knowledge and competencies of students with visual impairment in the University of Educagtion, Winneba about information and communication technology (ICT). The study adopted the case study research design, where 33 students with visual impairment were randomly sampled from a population of 88 students with visual impairment. Descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used to analyse the data. The results of the study indicated that the participa...