ABSTRACT The students’ performance in Mathematics has been of great concern among parents, educators and general society. Students’ performance in Mathematics may be affected by students’ interest towards Mathematics. The study modeled the Ghanaian Senior High School students’ interest in Mathematics by using quantitative research approach. The study used stratified simple random sampling technique to select ten schools and 1263 respondents in the Ashanti region. The structured quest...
ABSTRACT The School Feeding Programme (SFP) has benefited pupils in the basic level of education worldwide. It served as safety nest to reduce hunger and reduce nutritional disorder. In the nursing training colleges in Ghana, SFP were adopted to ensure that trainee nurses are not unnecessarily hungry throughout the training period hence improve their cognitive functioning. However, after about 43 years into the programme, the Ankaful Psychiatric Nurses Training College (APNTC) suspended the s...
ABSTRACT The deteriorating health status of the modem day Ghanaian has brought in the concept of the health-related physical fit-ness. This concept of health-related physical fitness has been a core component in the training of security services among which is the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS). The focus of this study was to find out whether there would be any significant difference in the health-related physical fitness levels of the rural and urban based junior firemen in Ghana. One hu...
ABSTRACT Child sexual abuse, a very disturbing problem in the society is on the increase in the Ghanaian society; hence the child is not protected by those he/she trusts. The research aims at delving through the types of child sexual abuse, the causes and the effect of child sexual abuse. It also aimed at looking for what motivates disclosure, patterns of disclosure and what prevents disclosure. The study was limited to 70 respondents. The target population for the study comprised sexually ab...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to assess the impact of the UCC Distance Learning Programme on the professional development of basic school teachers in the Kumasi Metropolis in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. It was a descriptive survey. Stratified random sampling procedure was used to sample 315 basic school teachers from the 10 sub-metros of the Kumasi Metropolis to serve as respondents. Data were collected using a questionnaire with a Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient of .80 and an...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted on the views of teachers of selected basic schools on inclusive education in Cape Coast Metropolis. The study adopted descriptive survey design to help find answers to the problem under investigation and a questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. Systematic random sampling technique was used to select 76 basic school teachers as the respondents for the study. The background information of the respondents was analysed by using frequency and percen...
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 investigated the effects of study and self-reward skills counselling on study behaviour of students in Ghanaian public universities. It was designed to achieve two major objectives. Firstly, it was to determine the effects of study and self-reward skills counselling on study behaviour and its five dimensions namely time management, concentration, consultation, note taking, and reading and library use. Secondly, the research was intended to ascertain the difference in the...
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 study focused on comparing the efficiency of the Decomposition (conventional method) and Base Complement Addition (non-conventional method) using two randomized groups of pupils. The comparison was done on measures of speed, accuracy and retention. In all, sixty pupils (thirty from each school) were selected from St. Peter’s and Jesus Cares Preparatory Schools at Dunkwa Offin in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality in the Central Region of Ghana. The researcher used simple rand...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to determine the leadership styles of polytechnic principals as perceived by polytechnic teachers and find out whether there was any relationship between the perceived principals' leadership styles and polytechnic teachers' job satisfaction. From a population of 484 polytechnic teachers, a random sample of 260 was surveyed. The Leader Behaviour Description Questionnaire (LBDQ) was used to measure the leadership style of the principal while the Mohrman-Coc...
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 In trying to expand the modern post-tonal music practices and techniques, using traditional idioms, this work is focused on Apatampa dance music (a recreational dance of the Fante people in the Central Region of Ghana) in an original composition named ‘The Fruits of Apatampa.’ The study seeks to explore the rhythmic resources of Apatampa dance music in a contemporary art composition. It blends new trends in contemporary art compositions with traditional drum idioms found in Apata...
STRACT The purpose of the study was to examine student participation in the administration of the University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale. Areas investigated were student participation both at the University level; factors students felt impeded their participation; and what they perceived to enhance their participation in the management of UDS. The views of some Deans and Hall masters were sought. The study was a descriptive survey. The sample consisted of 297 student leaders of the ...