ABSTRACT The study was to assess the impact of recreational activities on child delinquency at the Cape Coast Football for Hope Centre. Descriptive survey design and questionnaire was used to collect data from 140 respondents at the Football for Hope Centre. Data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics (frequency and simple percentages based on research questions. Results revealed that neglect, poverty and abuse were the major causes of streetism in Cape Coast. Also, the major rea...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to explore the impact of tutors‟ feedback on students‟ achievement in practical physical education classes. The study sought to find out the types of feedback tutors give during practical lessons, impact feedback has on the students and the guidelines tutors use to give feedback to students for maximum participation during practical lessons. The study is centred on teacher-trainees of Foso College of Education. Out of the of the 900 students (300 of ...
ABSTRACT The study examined teachers’ test construction skills, commitment to work, and attitude towards test construction as predictors of adherence to test construction principles among SHS teachers in the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis. The study was carried out employing the descriptive cross-sectional survey design. The study targeted teachers who teach mathematics, integrated science, and English language, numbering 346. The census method was used to engage all the 346 teachers in the st...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the utilization of information communication technology (ICT) in facilitating teaching and learning at the Cape Coast Polytechnic. The research design used for the study was descriptive survey. A total sample of 360 including 300 students and 60 teaching staff was selected for the study. Multi-stage sampling was used to select the students whiles the census method was used to select the teaching staff. The instrument used for gathering data was the questionnair...
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...
ABSTRACT This study sought to improve Senior High School Chemistry students’ performance and retention in classification and nomenclature of organic chemistry using the jigsaw cooperative model. Quasi experimental pretest, posttest and delayed posttest control group design was adopted by the researcher to carry out the study. The study was conducted in two Senior High Schools offering chemistry (two different classes during 2012-2013 academic years). Total number of ninety four st...
ABSTRACT This study examined the participation of non-specialist supervisors in the supervision of physical education students in the colleges of education. The study sought to find out, difference that may exist between specialist mentors and non-specialist supervisors in supervising. The impact of the teaching practice supervision on student-teachers and the challenges faced by student-teachers during the teaching practice supervision. The study adopted an interpretive phenomenologica...
ABSTRACT Financial management in schools is bedevilled with challenges and so are rated low in terms of the administrative functions of headmasters in the district. This is a diagnostic study of the dilemmas that heads of schools face in financial management in secondary schools of the Nzema-East District. One hundred respondents expressed their views on the subject. Four sets of questionnaire and an interview guide were adopted as the main instruments for the study. Nine major questions were...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted at Kwanyako Senior High School. The descriptive survey design was employed to investigate how students in the school’s boarding house select, use and care for their undergarments. Multistage sampling technique was used to select 176 respondents, comprising 115 females and 61 males for the study. Research objectives for the study were: to identify the types of undergarments used by students, examine factors they considered in their selection, evaluate the c...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate achievement test practices of teachers in Junior High Schools in the Sissala East Municipality. Descriptive survey was used to investigate the practice of achievement testing of teachers in Junior High Schools in Sissala East Municipality. The study employed the multistage sampling techniques (purposive, stratified and simple random sampling technique). Questionnaire was used to collect data from 248 Junior High School teachers in the Sissala East Muni...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the relationship between home characteristics and students’ academic performance among public junior high school (JHS) students in Moree. Home characteristics of this study focused on parental involvement in school activities (PI), parents’ absence from home (PA), parental educational background (PE), and the major economic activity of parents (PO). The sample consisted of 200 students selected by the simple random sampling technique and census with parent...
ABSTRACT Concerns for the difficulties pupils and students face in the study of , fractions have been expressed by numerous researchers and mathematics educators in recent times. Some ofthese researchers and educators (Beardslee & Jerman, 1978; Bezuk, 1988; Cooney & Hirsh, 1990; Groff, 1994; Kinney, Marks & Purdy, 1965; Silvia, 1986) shared the view that fractions have traditionally been a source of difficulty for both children and adults, and gave various reasons for their claims. Kinney et ...
ABSTRACT The stressful nature of elite sport and the competitive environment surrounding it places many demands on participating players resulting in varying levels of anxiety and self-confidence. Players who have similar skill level often rely upon their psychological ability to gain an advantage over their opponents. This study sought to investigate the influence of demographic factors (age, experience, position), anxiety and self-confidence on penalty kick performance among Ebusua Dwarfs p...
ABSTRACT The study was an investigation into conflict management mechanisms in the administration of the faculties of the University of Cape Coast. The population was made up of Senior Members and Senior Support Staff of five faculties of the University of Cape Coast. In all, the study had a population of 695 respondents. Purposive sampling was used to select a sample of 189 respondents representing 27% of the population. The study was guided by five research questions which centered on the c...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to evaluate the music teacher programme of the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) towards meeting the federal government’s aspiration of making its education relevant to the child and society, and provision of quality specialist music teachers in their number for the primary and junior secondary schools. The research paradigm that guided the study was constructivist interpretative of concurrent mixed method. The sample size of 16 music...