ABSTRACT This study investigated the differential views of SHS teacher factors that affect students‟ performance in biology in two districts of Eastern Region, Ghana. The research was guided by five research objectives. The study sought to establish the effect of certain factors such as teachers‟ motivation, qualifications, instructional approaches, professional experience and job satisfaction on students‟ performance in biology in two selected Districts of Eastern Region. The st...
ABSTRACT This study employed a descriptive survey to determine the effect of using integration technology, group work and practical demonstration on the pedagogical skills of basic school teachers as they participated in some carefully designed instructional activities that try to elicit their misconceptions in some selected science topics. A sample size of forty - five (45) teachers was used for the study: 33 (73%) Science teachers and 12 (27%) ICT teachers from the eight Junior High ...
ABSTRACT The study was aimed at improving on 48 teacher-trainees‟ concepts in an introductory inorganic chemistry course through practical micro chemistry equipment (MCE) activities and curriculum materials. These materials were validated through scrutiny by experts in Chemistry Education, trials in a comparable institution and KuderRichardson‟s formula, KR-20. Some of the topics which were covered in the study were the nature of solutions, chemical stoichiometry, balancing of equat...
ABSTRACT The study examined the effect of cooperative learning strategy with instructional manual as against cooperative learning strategy only on SHS students‟ performance in Mechanics concepts in Physics in Berekum Municipality, Brong Ahafo Region. The research design employed in this study was the quasi-experimental using pretest and posttest equivalent control group design. Samples of ninety three (93) SHS 2 students drawn from two intact classes were used for the study. An instru...
ABSTRACT This study focused on elective science students’ perception of their biology classroom environment and their attitude towards biology in low and high academic achieving senior secondary schools in the Central Region of Ghana. Data were obtained with Biology Classroom Environment Questionnaire and Attitude towards Biology Questionnaire, administered on 356 third-year elective science students. This was done after the senior secondary schools that offer elective science programme ha...
ABSTRACT An action research was undertaken to investigate into the effects of using cooperative learning on pre-service teachers in enhancing their performance in teaching Integrated Science at Junior High School (JHS). The investigation sought to motivate and improve the attitudes of the female pre-service teachers towards learning and teaching science through cooperative learning. The data collection instruments were researcher observation, questionnaires and achievement tests. ...
ABSTRACT The teaching and learning of science in the Senior High Schools (SHS) has of late not been very effective since the practical aspect of the subject is seemingly neglected by many teachers. The main objective of this study was to investigate the challenges associated with the organization of science practical lessons in some selected Senior High Schools. The sampled population for the study consisted of 165 students and 50 teachers from five selected Senior High Schools. Th...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted in the context of the organic chemistry aspect of the Integrated Science course for the pre-service teachers in St. Teresa’s Colleges of Education, Hohoe in the Volta Region of Ghana. The study examined new ways of guiding students to conceptualise organic chemistry that was developed to promote in-depth understanding of aliphatic organic compounds to students. Applying a case study and action research paradigm, pre-test and post-test questions were ...
ABSTRACT This is an investigative study into the causes of pupils‟ poor performance in Integrated Science in some selected Junior High Schools in the Anomabo Circuit of Mfantsiman Municipality of Ghana. The study took a look at the factors that might exist to hinder the performances of the pupils. The study adopted the descriptive method of qualitative research and data were collected with a set of questionnaire and an interview schedule and data from questionnaire were analysed using freq...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to investigate the Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Integrated Science teachers, how it influences their teaching of the subject and its impact on students’ achievement at the Junior High School level. The explanatory sequential mixed method design was used in this study. This is due to the fact that study was of quantitative priority where greater emphasis was placed on the quantitative method while the qualitative method played a secondary role. The resea...
ABSTRACT Cooperative learning is the instructional use of small groups of learners so that they work together to maximize their own and each other’s learning. This study investigated the use of cooperative learning to enhance the performance of upper primary pupils in science. A mixed method approach with a quasi-experimental design was used. The access population was upper primary pupils from Kortsrala and Takuve D/A primary schools in the Agortime-Ziope district of the Volta region of Gh...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to determine the learning styles of biology students and their influence on students‘ academic performance. The population for the study comprised of all first year Home Economics students. A purposive sampling method was used to select one intact first year (SHS 1) Home Economics class with a class size of 50 as the sample for the study. Four research instruments were used in the data collection process for this study to obtain the scores necess...
ABSTRACT Integrated science is one of the core subjects offered in the Ghanaian Senior High School. Most of the concepts included in Science are abstract and therefore students find it difficult to understand the concepts. Cell division is one of the most problematic and difficult concepts that students learn in the Science syllabus. Questions on cell cycle, Mitosis and Meiosis in Cell Division are very popular in the West African Certificate examination.Analysis of the Science paper us...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the instructional assessment practices of junior high school integrated science teachers, the pattern, techniques and challenges in Bia West District of the Western region with a view to providing a baseline data on the state of the art of this important aspect of science teaching. A total of 54 science teachers and 250 pupils were drawn from nine circuits consisting of 68 public junior high schools in Bia West District constituted the participants in the st...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to show the impact concept mapping has as a teaching strategy in an attempt to reduce cognitive load of first year biology students of St. Dominic’s Senior High School. In the study, the students were taught how to construct concept maps on classification of plants. A convenience sampling technique was used to select a sample of sixty (60) in-tact class of form one biology students in the school. An observation was used by the Researcher to collect...