ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to assess the contribution of physical facilities to the teaching and learning in pre-schools in the Techiman North District of the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. The study adopted descriptive research with a concurrent mixed method design. Seventy-five respondents consisting of 60 teachers and 15 attendants were sampled for the study. The study employed systematic sampling, simple random sampling and convenience sampling techniques in sampling the partici...
ABSTRACT This study is a descriptive survey, which sought to investigate the relationship between leadership styles of basic schools head teachers and school climate in Ahafo Ano North District. Five research questions were formulated to guide the study. A total of 90 respondents, comprising 18 head teachers and 72 head teachers in the Ahafo Ano north district were involved in the study. The main research instrument used to collect data was que...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to ascertain the level of job satisfaction among senior staff of the University of Cape Coast. Stratified random sampling was used to select 317 senior staff made up 156 males and 78 females from a total population of 632. Data were collected using an adapted questionnaire that had been prepared by Bame (1990) for a previous study on teacher motivation.The study revealed that the senior staff o...
ABSTRACT This study examined the use of Basic Education Comprehensive Assessment System/School Education Assessment (BECAS/SEA) mathematics tests and its results in promoting learning of Mathematics in our basic schools. It also ascertained whether or not educational workers make use of the SEA results in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) municipality to improve teaching and learning in the municipality. The researcher administered questionnaires to fifty-two (52) teachers, ten (10) hea...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the economic viability of using human waste at the Kumasi landfill site at Dompoase for generating biogas as a domestic fuel. With regards to the possibility of Turning Human Waste into Wealth, the results revealed that; methane gas can be trapped from human waste discharged at the landfill, 82.2% of respondents agreed that they would use gas obtained from toilet without further thoughts and also use fertilizer derived from human waste on their farms. The rat...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate the effect of Cooperative Learning (CL) approach on achievement in some selected topics in physics. It also aimed at finding out their perception about cooperative Learning. Two control groups (class sizes 25 and 35) totaling 55 and two treatment groups (class sizes 25 and 35) totaling 55 were used. The study design was quasi-experimental with, pretest-intervention and post-intervention tests on the two groups (treatment and control). Four instrument...
ABSTRACT Little is known about the basic school Language teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge and their Classroom Teaching Practices. Through interview and observation, this qualitative case study sought to examine and unearth the Pedagogical Content Knowledge and the Classroom Teaching Practices of basic school English Language teachers in the Assin South district. A total of 10 basic school English Language teachers were purposively selected for the study. Data collected wa...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the meanings Ghanaian Junior Secondary School Students give to science concept-related words they encounter in science textbooks for Junior Secondary Schools. The study also tried to determine whether the location of the school gender differences and the native language of the students, have any influence on their understanding of science concept-related words. The study involved 1028 students (455 females and 573 males) from 12(6 urban and 6 rural) out ...
ABSTRACT The Ministry of Education (MoE)/Ghana Education Service (GES) requires all mathematics teachers to use manipulative materials to teach mathematics in Junior High Schools (JHSs) because they have the potential to demystify learning of the subject. The study was designed to examine the use of manipulative materials in teaching mathematics among junior high school teachers in the Wa municipality of the Upper West Region of Ghana. Three instruments, namely,questionnaire, interview guid...
ABSTRACT Small-scale mining has become an activity that provides livelihoods to growing numbers of rural people in Ghana. This has attracted most of the youth and other groups of people into the business. This study sought to explore the management of operations of small-scale mining industries in the Obuasi Municipality. The study sought the views of small-scale miners from the communities under study (Ahansoyewodea, Pomposo, Akrokerri, Kwabrafoso, Asonkori and Akaporiso) at Obuasi...
ABSTRACT This study investigated study habits and academic performance among Public Junior High School Pupils in the Ekumfi District of the Central Region of Ghana whilst controlling for the controlling effect of learning styles. Study Habits Theory by Bakare (1977) and Learning Styles Theory by Fernald et al. (1921) served as the theoretical framework of the study. The mixed sequential explanatory approach was followed in the conduct of the study where both quantitative and qualitative dat...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate the language of advertising and analyse its use in MTN Ghana print advertisements. The study looked at the language devices the MTN Ghana copywriter uses in writing the advertisements and how these devices are manipulated to lure potential customers to sign onto the network. It also investigated the most used language devices in MTN Ghana print advertisements. Qualitative case study design was employed for the study. Data for the study wa...
ABSTRACT Academic performance of students in mathematics is challenged by several factors. The study aimed at finding out mathematics teachers’ perceptions on classroom assessment and practice at the Junior High Schools in Ghana. Descriptive survey design using questionnaire for teachers, students’ questionnaire, inspection of documents and interview of teachers were used to collect data. The respondents were 30 teachers and 20 students selected randomly from schools in Awutu-Senya d...
ABSTRACT To achieve greater efficiency on projects have been of tremendous concern to stakeholders of the construction industry in Ghana which equipment handling practices cannot be left out in such a quest. The study sought to examine equipment management practices on construction sites using Kumasi Metropolis as the case study. The researcher adopted convenience sampling technique in selecting a sample size of 314 (equipment managers, contractors and employees) out of which 297 respo...
ABSTRACT The study was a studio-based research on Aluminum statues and the immortalization of Ghanaian sporting legends, that exhibits praxis and exegesis of Azumah Nelson’s statue. It advances the immortalization of Ghana’s most outstanding sporting legend and material sustainability which is rendered in scrap aluminum sculpture. It encourages the Ghanaian sculptor to contribute positively to Ghana’s history by sculpting Ghana’s sports legends in their daily practice. The study...