ABSTRACT This study specifically attempted to find out whether academic performance among J.H.S 3 students, teachers and parents could be attributed to some home environmental factors such as parental encouragement, parental education, parental occupation, family size and learning facilities at home. The researcher employed the use of questionnaire and focus group discussion to gather data for this work. Out of the four hundred (400) respondents that were sampled from the five strata, three h...
ABSTRACT In the Cape Coast Municipality, there are single sex senior high schools and co-educational senior high schools. The study set out to investigate how students in the single sex senior high schools perceived the administrative functions of the heads. The purpose was to examine how the heads of the schools played their administrative roles. The research employed a descriptive survey. Purposive and random sampling techniques were used to draw a sample size of 640 from five single sex se...
ABSTRACT The administration of Secondary Schools today, according to Alani (2000), can no longer be reduced to rule-of-thumb since schools are becoming increasingly complex. The purpose of the study was to identify the challenges faced by administrators in the administration of Senior High Schools in the Kpeshie Sub Metropolitan Education Directorate of the Accra Metropolitan area. In all, 5 day and boarding public Senior High Schools were used in the study. The schools were purposively selec...
ABSTRACT The objective of the research was to examine the factors that contributed to the few number of women leaders in educational management in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region. The research was a descriptive survey and data was gathered by means of questionnaires and documentary sources. The population from which the sample was taken was made up of the entire population of teachers and educational administrators in the District. A total of 150 respondents were drawn from Prima...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find out the state of teachers’ participation in senior high school decision-making in the Kadjebi District. Questionnaires were used to collect data from 84 randomly selected professional teachers on the level of teacher participation in school decision-making, the school decision-making areas of teachers’ participation, the ways of involving teachers in school decision-making, the teachers’ demographic characteristics associated with their par...
ABSTRACT The major objective of this study was to find out the challenges facing the transitional vocational placement and training of visually impaired students at Akropong School for the Blind in the Akuapem – North District of the Eastern Region. Descriptive research design was used for the study. One hundred and fifteen (115) students were selected using simple random sampling technique. All the forty- five (45) teachers of the school were purposively chosen and twenty (20) parents were...
ABSTRACT The study examines tutors’ and students’ utilization of ICT in the colleges of education in the Eastern Region of Ghana. In all, 257 respondents, made up of 176 students and 81 tutors, representing a retrieval rate of 95.2%, responded to the questionnaires with an alpha reliability of (0.759 for tutors and 0.712 for students) and this formed the sample of study. The study which was descriptive in nature employed the use of questionnaires for the collection of data. Frequencies we...
ABSTRACT .This study focused attention on how the human resource and staff is developed in the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar District. This is descriptive research of the survey type involving 301 participants, made up of 196 teachers, 67 heads and • 38 District Education Officials who were selected for the study. Questionnaire on human resource/staff'development was constructed and validated by the, researcher and were ,'administered on the 301 participants to answer the research questions raised f...
ABSTRACT The research work was on teachers' perception of the effectiveness of the administrative behaviours of their heads. The study sought to investigate the perception that teachers had on the behaviour of their heads as the heads carried out their administrative functions. The research questions fonnulated were based on the administrative functions of heads which included planning, organizing, cocoordinating, staffing and directing. It also considered the relationships that existed betwe...
ABSTRACT The study was on the participation of communities in the provision of quality basic education in the Lawra District of the Upper West Region. The study assessed the contribution communities make towards basic education delivery. Sensitization of community members towards development of the school was an area of concern. The perception on the impact of community participation in bringing quality basic education to the district was also looked at. The population covered GES personnel a...
iii ABSTRACT This study was designed to ascertain the challenges that the community day schools in the Keta Municipality of Ghana are faced with by their management teams. There were nine (9) SHSs in the Keta Municipality but attention was focused on only five (5) schools namely Anlo Afiadenyigba, Anlo Awomefia, Atiavi, Abor and Tsiame. Using the Keta Municipality as a case study, all the Headmasters with their assistants, Departmental Heads and the Board Chairmen amounting to forty (40) were...
ABSTRACT Competitions, misunderstandings and mistrust are likely to occur when people meet as a group which could ultimately result in conflict. Since in the school which is a miniature society, people meet as a group, conflict is likely to occur. In this regard, the researcher sought to examine the extent to which headmasters' management behaviours in conflict management contribute to or reduce conflict in Junior High Schools in Kwahu North District. The population for the study comprises te...
ABSTRACT The study sought to find the perceptions tutors and students held about the Leadership Behaviours of Principals of Colleges of Education in the Central Region of Ghana. The design for the study was a descriptive survey whereby data were collected to answer the research questions. Tutors and students from the three colleges of education in the Central Region of Ghana constituted the population. In all, the sample size of the study stood at 407. Seventy-seven tutors were selected by us...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to ascertain the nature and challenges of supervision in the Ablekuma North Sub-Metropolis. The study population was 662 teachers, 46 head teachers and 5 circuit supervisors. Simple random, purposive and stratified sampling procedures were used to select 271 respondents comprising 220 teachers, 46 head teachers and five circuit supervisors. The researcher used questionnaires to collect data and the response rate was 92.3%. The data was analyzed using desc...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effect of work place environment on the performance of tutors of Tamale College of Education and the tutors of Bagabaga College of Education. The environment that people are required to work in can have a significant impact on their ability to undertake the tasks that they have been asked to do. Louise further stated that work environment could also have an impact on an individual's ability to work safely, competently and in compliance with operational per...