ABSTRACT The study examined how teachers, caregivers and handlers employ music in their daily activities and the type of songs used. It inquired into the contribution of songs and musical activities in the teaching and learning process and the response of pupils to music in their studies at early childhood. It also ascertained the teachers’ and handlers’ ability to use music and its qualities in the teaching process. In addition, it also found out the resource situation for music ma...
ABSTRACT Firms’ investment appraisal techniques have become a great area of interest to both academics and practitioners alike. For instance, common opinion among scholars and practitioners is that, a business future success and sustenance largely depend on its ability to get its present investment decisions right. This means that, the decisions inherent to investments are critical to the growth and sustenance of every company be it a private or public entity. Accordingly, this study look...
ABSTRACT Food is fundamental and basic to human survival, and maintaining health. What and when we eat affects our health. Food habits like what and when we eat depends on the diverse socio-cultural and economic environment. Traditionally, provision of family meals is part of the woman’s main domestic activities. A woman in paid job outside the home suffers in her home management. This study sought to explore issues pertaining to the dual role of the employed woman with regard to fe...
ABSTRACT This research investigates Mathematics discourse as practiced by Senior High School Mathematics teachers and students in Ghana. Mixed-method design was used to collect data for the study. The study involves 110 teachers and 120 students. Descriptive statistical analysis was used to analyse the quantitative data while thematic analysis was used to analyse the qualitative data. Convenience sampling was used to select the area of study whiles purposive sampling was used to select ...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted to assess and evaluate the state (current) of sports facilities and effects on sports development at the Senior High School (SHS) in the Tano North and South districts in Brong Ahafo region, Ghana. A quantitative research approach was used for the study. The research technique used was descriptive survey method. The significance of the study was to create awareness that availability of sports facilities in the Senior High School improve sports performa...
ABSTRACT The study sought to improve Senior High School students‟ performance in genetics using cooperative instructional approach in the Keta Senior High Technical School in the Volta Region of Ghana. Sixty final year students of were purposively sampled for the study. The major objectives of the study were: to find out specific genetics concepts students don‟t understand; to identify the causes of students‟ inability to understand genetic concepts; use Mathematical expressions ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate whether tutors in the teacher training colleges follow the basic laid down principles of testing practices, especially, test construction, administration and scoring of classroom or teachermade tests in the teacher training colleges. The study adopted the descriptive design and covered 20 public teacher training colleges in Ghana comprising 230 male and 80 female teacher training college tutors. The main instrument used for the study was th...
ABSTRACT Multigrade schools refer to schools which combine different classes in the same classroom setting. The Asunafo North District in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana has 17 of such schools. Multigrade schools become necessary where teachers are in short supply or where enrolment figures are so low that they cannot justify the appointment of teachers for separate classes especially in the remote and hard-to-reach areas. The study sought to have an in depth assessment of multigrade schools ...
ABSTRACT This research was carried out in 13 Senior High Schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis with the aim of evaluating the impacts of national educational reform programmes (1974-2007) on the Senior High School Social Studies Curriculum. Data collected were analysed with the use of SPSS version 21. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. The study employed both the quantitative and qualitative methods which provided the researcher the opportunity to corroborate findings ac...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate the effects of using cooperative learning on female teacher trainees of the Colleges of Education in learning some selected topics in Integrated Science. The investigation also sought to determine whether the Cooperative Learning Approach enhances the attitude and motivation of the trainees towards learning of Integrated Science. The study was carried out at the St. Monica’s College of Education in the Mampong Municipality of the Ashanti Region. In a...
ABSTRACT The point to which caregivers are satisfied with the care they receive for themselves and their children from the health professionals, has increasingly become an issue for all stakeholders concerned with improving health outcomes. The Salvation Army Community Rehabilitation and Orthopaedic Centre Agona–Duakwa, provides rehabilitation services to children with cerebral palsy and for their caregivers. These caregivers mostly seek these services to address the problems of their chi...
ABSTRACT The study investigated teaching and learning resources available for teaching mathematics at the Senior High School (SHS) level in the Western region of Ghana. Specifically, it tried to find out the available resources and if they differ among the school categories, the state of the available resources, teachers’ access to the available resources and the difference in the use of the resources across sex, academic qualification and school categories. The study used pragmatist paradi...
ABSTRACT This research study was an action research which involved a sample of fifty-four (54) students of form 3 General Arts ‘A’ class of Mansoman Senior High School in the Amansie West District of Ashanti Region, selected purposely for the study. The study was aimed at improving the performance of students in mensuration tasks involving areas and volumes of cylinders, cones and spheres. Pre-test and post-test were used in data collection. Pre-test and post-test scores obtained by...
ABSTRACT The principal focus of the study was to investigate the comparative effect of the extent to which analogy-based and animation-based instructional approaches influence senior high school students’ cognitive achievement (academic performance and retention) in biological molecular concepts especially in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) structure and replication, transcription and translation concepts. Four research questions with two hypotheses guided the study and tested at 0.05 level of ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the problems SHS Chemistry students faced in naming organic compounds especially hydrocarbons by IUPAC rules at Zion College Senior High School in the Keta Municipality. The research work established if there was a significant difference between the performance of students taught by the traditional method and those taught using molecular models. It also considered whether if there was significant difference between the performance of boys and girls in t...