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...
ABSTRACT The study sought to examine University of Cape Coast (UCC) male students’ attitudes towards counselling on UCC campus. Descriptive survey was used as the research design. Simple random sampling and proportional sampling techniques were employed to select the respondents for this study. Both closeended and open-ended questionnaires were administered to sample of 345 male students for the achievement of set objectives. Descriptive statistics and chi-square test were used to determine...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to find out the factors that are perceived to facilitate students’ mathematics learning and their performance at the J.H.S. level. The study was conducted in the Cape Coast Metropolis in the Central Region of Ghana. Five research questions were raised to guide the study and a descriptive survey design was used. Simple random sampling and purposive sampling were used to select 311 participants for the study comprising 225 students, 30 teachers and 56 parent...
ABSTRACT Efficient patient care in ~e wards of hospitals is a key component of nursing generally and in particular the caring for patients with HN/AIDS infections. It was on the basis of this that this study was done to assess the attitude of student nurses of the Presbyterian Nurses' Training College, Agogo towards PLWHAS. The study was on clinical situation and the study population was 217 and a sample size of 100 respondents was selected from the second and third year ' students. It was a ...
ABSTRACT Discipline has been defined in various ways by different authors. It is, therefore, not surprising that different groups have various perceptions of discipline. This dissertation on “Perception of Academic Staff and Students of Mfantsipim School on Discipline” therefore sought to find out the perceptions as they pertain in Mfantsipim School. The academic staff and the students were given questionnaires to select responses as they deemed necessary when questions on discipline were...
ABSTRACT Rework at the construction phase is a common occurrence during project execution and can lead to time and cost overruns. The aim of the study was to assess the effects of rework on construction project performance in Ghana. The study adopted a quantitative research design and the target population was consultants to assemblies and permanently employed constructional professionals with assemblies (project stakeholders). A sample size of seventy-two (72) was selected. The findings re...
ABSTRACT The study sought to examine the nutritional practices and the health of the elderly in Ateitu and Winneba Zongo Communities in the Effutu Municipality. A sample of 100 elderly persons was selected for the study using the snowball sampling technique. Questionnaire, focus group discussion and observations were the instruments used in data collection. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) for windows, version 16 was used in the data analysis. Responses from respondents were c...
ABSTRACT Studies on Space Utilization in our educational institutions are not new but this is the first time a study on Space Utilization has been conducted in a privately owned tertiary institution in Ghana. This study, The Utilization of Teaching Space at Central University College was conducted specifically to find out the key challenges private universities face in the use of space and time in the day to day administration of their facilities and to provide information on Time Utilization...
ABSTRACT The main objective of this study was to assess availability and utilization of ICT facilities in teaching of social studies in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis. The descriptive research design was adopted for the study. A census technique was used for the 100 social studies teachers. The questionnaire was used to gather the requisite data for the study. The data were analysed through the computation of descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequencies, percentages, mean of me...