Bernard Yaw Sekyi Acquah

University of Cape Coast | UCC · Department Of Business & Social Sciences Education (DOBSSE)

Good teaching is crucial for implementing the school curriculum and is taken seriously by teacher training institutions. Pre-service teachers of various colleges of education are taken through multiple assessment strategies to obtain information for improving teacher training curricula to achieve the aim of training quality teachers for effective c...

The school curriculum is often the formal document designed for teachers to treat topics that allow for the impartation of knowledge and the development of competencies that prepare students for further studies. Achieving this depends mainly on its content structure and sequencing. The aim of this study is two-fold: to find the extent of vertical...

The study examined how faithfully senior high school teachers implemented selected senior high school subject curricula. Cross sectional survey design was used in the study. Using the level of use dimension of the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM), 111 senior high school teachers were randomly selected from the pool of accounting, business manag...

The study investigated adolescent risk behaviours in public junior high schools of the OLA circuit in the Cape Coast Metropolis using the descriptive survey design. Five research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The target population of the study was all students in the OLA Circuit of the Cape Coast Metropolis. The a...

The art and science of teaching as linked to the systems theory of input and output model shows that, in the 21st century, teacher education programmes should not only focus on the output of the student-teacher but more importantly the inputs. It is based on this that Smart-PLS was used to model a relationship between pedagogical skills, subject ma...

The main objectives of the study was to determine the effectiveness of trainee – Economics teachers from the perspective of senior high school students and to ascertaining the interrelationships among the elements of determining teacher effectiveness and to establish which element accounted most for students’ ratings. Based on the objectives of the...

The emphasis of this study was to find out how trainee-teachers of Economics perceived off-campus teaching practice in terms of the benefits they derived from the exercise. The study employed a qualitative design with the use of interviews and focus group discussion as the main means for collecting data. A total number of 101 trainee-teachers, purp...

In the 21 st century, the pure academic type of education students are introduced to is gradually giving way to the type of education that seek to incorporate the three taxonomies of education; cognitive, psychomotor and affective. Co-curricular activities have been linked to intellectual, emotional, social and moral development of the child. It is...

This study aimed to assess the training needs of tutors in the colleges of education in the Central Region of Ghana. A total of 111 Colleges of Education tutors participated in the study. Data obtained were analyzed using descriptive statistics. It was evident in the study that tutors find out about programmes from friends and coworkers. It was als...

The focus of the study was to ascertain the extent to which the ICT curriculum is effectively being implemented in basic schools. The aim was to find out teachers’ perception about the introduction of ICT at the basic school level; the availability of facilities for teaching the subject; teachers’ acquired content knowledge as well as their preferr...

The study, conducted in selected senior high schools in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis of Ghana sought to investigate the relationship between students’ achievements in Mathematics and their performance in Economics. A questionnaire which contained a Test of Economics Understanding (TEU) as well as a Test of Mathematics Understanding (TMU) was use...