INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Language is a means of communication. It is one of the powerful tools that Nature gave to humankind. There are over thousands of different languages across the world. Ghana alone can boast of over forty-six (46) different languages of which about nine (9) are studied or learned in schools: Twi, Ga, Ewe, Fante, Dagaare, Dagomba (Dagbani), Dangme, Gonja, and Kasem. According to Dako (2002): It is generally estimated that there are between 42-55 ...
ABSTRACT The built environment uses large amounts of scarce resources and contributes significantly to the production of global emissions and waste. It is of importance to adopt sustainable means to curb the dire consequences of the built environment. The purpose of this research is to analyze the existing sustainable building assessment tools and develop one for the Ghanaian construction industry. The study employed the mixed research method approach including literature review, and qu...
ABSTRACT The research investigated the influence of concept mapping on basic students’ performance in the concept of digestion. The study was a case study in Junior High School using concept mapping as an intervention teaching strategy. The study used 25 Junior High students at Danbesco Firm Foundation School in the Ashaiman Municipality, Ghana. The students were tested with teacher–constructed pre-intervention tests consisting of twenty (20) multiple–choice and five (5) detailed...
ABSTRACT This study tried to assess the fitness level of 15-17 years students of Three-Town Senior high School in Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region. Relevant literature relating to the research topic was reviewed. The study used the descriptive survey method to find out the fitness levels of the students. The population for the study was two hundred students, a sample of sixty (60) students were used for the study. The questionnaire format was used to collect the da...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to explore the level of social inclusion of pupils with intellectual disabilities at Adukrom Methodist Basic School in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Qualitative method and case study were used to guide the study. The sample size for the study was 21 students with intellectual disabilities, and data were collected using interview and observation. The purposeful sampling technique was used to select the sample size. Data were analyzed using themes and data...
ABSTRACT The practice of theatre for development (TfD) unequivocally thrives on language. Therefore, the issue of linguistic diversity may influence the communication process in TfD in terms of attainment of expected outcomes, especially in multi-ethnic communities. Focusing on Nima, a multi-ethnic community in the Accra metropolis, this study explored the potential of multilingual theatre for TfD communication in order to assess the impact of linguistic diversity on the effectiveness o...
ABSTRACT This study was a case study designed to find out the teachers’ approaches for teaching reproductive health education to adolescents with hearing impairments at Ashanti school for the deaf, Jamasi. Views were sampled through semi structured interviews for teachers on one -on- one basis and semi – structured interviews for students in focus groups. The teachers’ were observed in the classroom for twenty minutes three times each for two weeks. The students were also observed...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to investigate the factors that affect the effective teaching and learning of integrated science at the Junior High School level in Juaboso district. The study stemmed from the Researcher’s involvement in teaching integrated science, conduct, supervision and marking of district mock examination in integrated science organized by Juaboso district education directorate. A total of 240 out of 987 students from 10 selected junior high schools in the distr...
ABSTRACT Time may be the most valuable thing one deals with, and it can neither be bought nor recaptured. However, significant amount of this valuable resource is wasted by staff of institutions due to the activities of time wasters. The purpose of the study was to find out the existence or otherwise of time wasters and determine their perceived impact on the time management practices among staff of the district education offices in the Central Region. The time management control measures wer...
ABSTRACT The study investigated parental contribution towards the educational development of basic school pupils in the Dangme West District. It sought to assess major contributions parents make, their perceptions of the importance of contributing to pupil’s educational development and challenges they face. A total of 288 parents having their children in ten (10) basic schools and 40 teachers were randomly and purposively selected for the study. Pupils were randomly sampled from the selecte...
ABSTRACT This study sought out to investigate the influence of illegal mining on school attendance, dropout and academic performance of junior high school pupils in the Atwima Kwanwoma District in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, a convergent mixed method design was employed. The sample size for the quantitative study was 105, comprising 70 pupils and 35 parents. In the qualitative phase, a sample size of 8 comprising 4 pupils and 4 parents were emplo...
ABSTRACT The intention of this study is to improve the Christian Religious Studies curriculum. It presented difficulties encountered in order to support implementers with findings from the field. Many of such research have used traditional models for evaluation: Objective based models, Goal free evaluation models, experimental evaluation models and many more. The Context Input Process Product (CIPP) evaluation model was used in this study to evaluate the Christian Religious Studies curriculu...
ABSTRACT The study investigated perceptions of kindergarten teachers on the use of play as teaching technique in Afadjato South District, Volta Region. The study used concurrent triangulation mixed-methods design. A sample of 130 participants was selected for the study: 100 kindergarten teachers, 20 basic school heads and 10 school supervisors. Multistage (comprehensive selection, simple random and convenience) sampling technique was used to select the participants. Questionnaire and interv...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at examining the effect of Beck’s Cognitive Therapy on females who exhibit depressive symptoms due to their suffering from infertility in Cape Coast Metropolis. To achieve this, the study adopted the experimental design which included 29 infertile women, to better understand their thoughts, emotions and behaviours, purposive and census sampling techniques were used. These infertile women were grouped into experimental and control groups. Treatment was administered ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find out the factors influencing community participation in Expanded Programme for Immunization (EPI) in Elmina sub-District of Ghana. In this survey data were collected from 15 purposively selected community health nurses and 279 conveniently chosen community members. Five research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. Two questionnaires; health worker questionnaire and community members, were utilized for data collection. The results indica...