CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study The incidence of interpersonal violence continues to occur in our society. Generally, it tends to have some cognitive, emotional and behavioural impacts on the victims. An aspect of interpersonal violence is domestic violence. Domestic violence refers to any attitude or behaviour that results in harm, injury or damage to the victim within the domestic setting. It ultimately causes the victim to live in fear of the perpetrator. Domestic vi...
ABSTRACT The study set out to investigate into the perceptions of senior staff on communication practices of University of Cape Coast administrators, considering such practices as channels of communication used by University administrators, directions of communication and barriers relating to the communication practices of administrators. The study traced the history and development of " communication in organizations. Purposive and simple random sampling methods were used in selecting the r...
Abstract A quasi-experimental study was carried out with 309 Form 3 students across 9 public Junior High Schools in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The effect of Practical Education Network (PEN)’s approach of training STEM teachers to employ hands-on activities using low-cost, locally-available resources was studied in terms of student learning outcomes, attitudes towards learning science, and interest in STEM majors/ careers. Over a 2.5-month period, the science teacher at each experim...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to find out the Jaman South District Senior High School Students’ perception of school rules and regulations. It adopted the descriptive sample survey design that involved the collection and test of hypothesis concerning the status of subject of the study. The questionnaire was the set of survey instrument that was designed by the researcher to collect data from a sampled size of 200 students drawn from a total population of 1700 from two schools; Drobo Sen...
Abstract The study examines the provisions of library facilities in Oyo state secondary schools. The population of the study consists of secondary schools in five Local Governments, that is, Ogbomoso North, Ogbomoso South, Surulere, Oriire, and OgoOluwa Local Government areas of Oyo state while 45 secondary schools were taken as the study sample. Out of the 45 questionnaires that were administered, 75.6% (34) were returned and analyzed. Simple percentage scores were employed in analyzing th...
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 guide...
ABSTRACT Research has shown that social studies teachers have been apprehensive about modifying instruction to incorporate technology. The study focused on Social Studies teachers’ knowledge and usage of ICT in teaching Social Studies in Junior High Schools in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region of Ghana. The study was hinged on Technology Acceptance Model developed and used concurrent triangulation design within the mixed method approach. Census sampling was used to select all ...
ABSTRACT Support for media literacy education has grown significantly in recent years with teachers and students advocating for its inclusion in the curricula. However, there are manifest differences in the ways people use media in teaching and learning of school subjects as well as in the level of their competence. This study assessed media literacy in teaching and learning of English Language in Basic Schools in the NsawamAdoagyiri Municipality. In order to achieve the purpose of the study...
ABSTRACT In every aspect of human life, language is an important form of communication and that is one of the skills that the school system seeks to develop. Ghana as multilingual country has a challenge to meet due to the numerous languages that students are exposed to. This makes it difficult to effectively learn the target language. In order to communicate well with students in the English language classroom (L 2), teachers code-switch for several pedagogic reasons. This study sought to ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to ascertain primary school teachers’ knowledge of differentiation, assess teachers’ pedagogical practices of differentiation, teachers’ assessment practices of DI and to determine how supportive the primary schools’ learning environments are of differentiation. A mixed method survey research design was employed to investigate Ghanaian primary school teachers’ knowledge and practices of Differentiated Instruction. A sample of 100 primary school teachers f...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the headteachers instructional supervisory styles and job performance of Social Studies teachers in some Public Junior High Schools in Kassena-Nankana Municipality in the Upper East Region of Ghana. The study was grounded in Glickman, Gordon and Ross-Gordon‟s (1998) developmental supervisory theory. The study adopted the cross-sectional design. The population covered all headteachers in public Junior High Schools in KassenaNankana Munic...
ABSTRACT The scourge of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has almost overwhelmed mankind of late and given a lot of sleepless nights to almost everybody. For over thirty years after the first case was diagnosed, scientists have not been able to find an antidote to help halt its spread. This dissertation sought to examine the attitudes of students of second cycle institutions towards HIV and AIDS prevention. The research work was carried out in K...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of instructional technology on student comprehension and retention levels for traditional and non-traditional student populations. The subjects in this study consisted of two teacher colleges of education and three senior high school students who had been exposed to instructional technology during at least one of the courses taken at their secondary/postsecondary institution. The sample consisted of 90 males and 56 females. The s...
ABSTRACT This piece of work sought to find out the incidence and impact of bullying on students in the two second cycle schools in the Bawku Municipality namely; Bawku Senior High School and Bawku Technical Institute. The researcher looked at the physical, psychological, personal-social, and academic impact of bullying on students. A mixed study design was used. It comprises partly quantitative and partly qualitative aspects. A questionnaire was first administered on students and was follow...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of the study was to explore the major problems faced and the support received by students studying in Ho Polytechnic in Ghana. The design for the study is primarily descriptive in nature and so the descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. Years 2 and 3 students of Ho Polytechnic formed the population of the study. The number of students used for the study was 300. The instrument used for the study was a questionnaire. In selecting the students the strat...