ABSTRACT 10 This study sets out to investigate the use of aesthetic elements in dipo songs that contribute to their social importance. Dipo songs serve as a means of social control; as a means of action directed towards the solution of problems that have plagued society in recent times by exposing the weakness, minor follies and major vices. Thus satire which is a major aesthetic element of dipo songs acts as a means of surgery to correct the follies. In a bid to achieve this, the rese...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Perceived Role of Circuit Supervisors in Managing Conflicts in Basic Schools in the Kumasi Metropolis. It also examines the intensity of conflict in the circuits and the extent to which conflict management behaviours demonstrated by the Circuit Supervisors contribute to or reduce the amount of conflicts that arise in Basic Schools in the Metropolis. Information was obtained from both head teachers and teachers numbering 664 made up of 63...
ABSTRACT The study explored the perceived causes of low academic performance of Senior High School students in core mathematics in the Kumasi Metropolis. The study used the descriptive survey design with quantitative approach. Multi-stage sampling procedures were used to select a sample of 439 respondents which included 381 students and 58 core mathematics teachers. Students and teachers’ questionnaires were used to collect data for the study. Means and standard deviations were used to anal...
ABSTRACT Adapted physical education is one of the major tools used in the curriculum of special schools. The concept of adapted physical education is a door that opens the opportunity for an individual to improve character, by making them confident and hopeful in all aspects of their lives i.e. mentally, emotionally, socially, spiritually, morally and physically. This study therefore, focused on instructional strategies in teaching physical education to the visually impaired at th...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the impact of activities on teaching and learning of Biology at the Birim Central Municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The sample population was made up of one hundred students and twenty five (25) biology teachers from the five (5) selected Senior High Schools. Data collected were analysed using SPSS version 20.0 and analysed data were converted into frequency counts and percentages. Findings of the study revealed that, biology teachers in th...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine the effectiveness of the committee system in the management of Colleges of Education in the Central Region of Ghana. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. A sample of 220 tutors and 43 students was used for the study. The sample was selected through purposive, census and proportional stratified sampling. Data was collected through the use of a researcher-designed questionnaire for both tutors and students. Data was analysed descr...
ABSTRACT This research was carried out in 13 Senior High Schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis with the aim of evaluating the impacts of national educational reform programmes (1974-2007) on the Senior High School Social Studies Curriculum. Data collected were analysed with the use of SPSS version 21. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. The study employed both the quantitative and qualitative methods which provided the researcher the opportunity to corroborate findings a...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to find out the types of instructional materials available, the frequencyof use, the effective utilization as well as perceptions of teachers and students on the use ofinstructional materials in the teaching and learning of Biology in the Senior High Schools in theSekondi-Takoradi Metropolis of the Western region of Ghana.The research design used was descriptive. In all, one hundredand twenty respondents made upof a hundred biology students and twenty biology ...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of computer simulations instructional packages on the performance of students‘ learning of the topic, digestion. The study used the entry point, post-test and exit point quasi experimental design method in a mixed sex Senior High School. The study used all fifty (50) students of SHS 2 Home Economics 1 and forty eight (48) students of SHS 2 Home Economics 2 at Odorgonno Senior High School in Accra, Ghana. A post-test consisting o...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine conflict management processes of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). It was to find out the sources, types of conflict, in the Central Administration, their intensity, the importance heads of department attached to conflict prevention processes and the extent to which conflict management behaviours shown by heads of department contributed to or reduced the amounts of conflict that arose in the central administration...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of code switching and mixing as a linguistic resource of students of St. Teresa‟s College of Education, Hohoe. The study looks at the academic and non-academic discussions of students and tutors to unveil the type of code switching (CS) and code mixing (CM) found in the college, the reason(s) for CS and CM, the extent to which CS and CM are a discourse strategy that is used to negotiate their activities. The ethnographic res...
ABSTRACT The wood industries in Ghana have been using teak wood harvested from different rotation ages ranging from 10 to 50 years. The optimal age of teak used for various wood productions is not known. The aim of this research was to assess selected physical, anatomical and mechanical properties of plantation teak of different ages (10, 15 and 20 years) grown in the guinea savanna ecological zone in Ghana. Same samples species were used for determination basic density, air dry densi...
ABSTRACT The concept of emotion is one that is deeply connected to both Musical Preferences (MP) and Emotional Intelligence (EI) inter alia. In fact, many people identify different emotions in their day-to-day engagements with different musical types. Identification of emotions in stimuli such as in sounds, faces and pictures has also been established ipso facto by scholars as an important aspect of EI. It thus appears axiomatic that aspects of music and emotional intelligence should be signi...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of instruction based on constructivist approach on students‘ achievement and views of students towards constructivist instructional approach in teaching chemical bonding. The study was a mixed-method (quantitative and qualitative) within the Action Research Paradigm. A diagnostic pre-intervention and post-intervention test questions and a questionnaire were used to collect data. The questionnaire was on a 5-point L...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the Constructivist Teaching Approach (CTA) on senior high school students’ performance in algebra in the Gomoa East District. The study was conducted in two senior high schools in the Gomoa East District of Ghana with a six-week intervention programme. Participants consisted of one hundred and forty (140) form two (2) students from the two participating schools with students from one of the schools serving as the cont...