Kwaku Darko Amponsah

University of Ghana | Legon · Teacher Education

This research explores how primary school teachers use games to enhance pupils’ learning and development of conceptual knowledge. The study employs an illustrative case study design; data was collected through interviews with thirty (30) teachers who were selected using purposive sampling technique. Twenty teachers had some knowledge of game-based...

Occupational stress has been the subject of numerous research studies conducted across the globe due to its impact on our daily life. For instance, it can have a negative impact on teachers’ psychological and normal functioning of the body at all levels as well as their performance. It can even impact adversely on their marriage and social lives as...

This Study explored the usage of the internet and its impact on the academic performance of Senior High School (SHS) students in the Cape Coast Metropolis. A questionnaire was used to gather data from 105 second-and third-year students through random sampling and was then analyzed using descriptive statistics and an independent samples t-test. The...

The Multiple Intelligence (MI) Theory has been recognised for its significance in education. This study aimed to provide a detailed examination of each intelligence and illustrate how different MIs work. The current study seeks to discover and link pre-service science teachers' numerous intellectual domains and learning style profiles. The survey m...

This research examined the effects of stress on pre-service teachers in selected colleges of education in Ghana and the coping techniques they use to address stress. The purpose of the study was to assess the impact of stress on academic performance as well as the coping mechanisms of pre-service teachers in selected colleges of education in Ghana....

This research explored pre-service science educators' comprehension regarding the concepts of galvanic cells, electrode potentials, and electrolytic cells in electrochemistry. A sample of 64 first year trainee science educators selected from the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Ghana was strategically chosen to take part in this...

This study sought to examine whether teachers' and educational administrators' conceptions of inquiry promote or constrain inquiry-based science teaching in junior high schools. The study also explored any connections between participants' conceptions of scientific inquiry, inquiry teaching, and inquiry learning. Multiple-case study involving semi-...

This study sought to examine whether junior high school teachers' attitudes are enabling or disabling dispositions toward inquiry-based science teaching. We used concurrent triangulation mixed methods design involving surveys and multiple case studies to collect quantitative and qualitative data. We sampled 308 integrated science teachers and a sub...

The study examined the use of quality teaching and learning resources and how these affect the teaching and learning of Integrated Science. A total of 172 randomly selected second year Senior High School (SHS) students and 25 Integrated Science teachers purposively sampled served as the subjects for the study within six districts in the Central Reg...

There are societal variations as to how masturbation is regarded because some societies regard it as a religious or cultural bizarre, while others tolerate it on biological grounds. This study employed a descriptive survey design to explore adolescents' attitudes towards masturbation in selected senior high schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis of G...

This study was motivated by the desire to explore the study skills employed by science students in senior high schools (SHS) in the Cape Coast metropolis across the Central Region of Ghana. A total of 600 SHS second-year science students, 354 males, and 244 females, took part in the investigation. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey design....

This current study explored twelfth-grade students' conceptions regarding electrochemistry in the Ximhungwe circuit of the Bohlabela district in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The sequential explanatory design was used to gather and analyse quantitative data first before gathering and analysing qualitative data for the current study. In t...

This study explored gender differences in stressors experienced by teacher education students at the University of Ghana, and adaptation stratagems they might utilise to manage stress. In 2018–2019 academic year, a total of two hundred and seventy (270) second- and third-year students were selected using random sampling procedure to respond to clos...

This research examined the stressors that teacher education students of the University of Ghana usually encounter and the coping stratagems that they frequently embrace. Random sampling technique was employed to select 270 s and third year undergraduate students in 2018/2019 academic year to answer a survey questionnaire with closed-ended and open-...

The article was based on the assertion that students' conceptions greatly influence the extent to which they grasp concepts. Based on this claim, this study sought to examine students' concepts and the reasons associated with learners' alternative conceptions relative to change of state of matter. This study employed the survey design hinged on ret...

This paper is part of a larger study to investigate ‗The impact of a constructivist approach to learning on physical sciences students‘ comprehension of electrochemistry concepts‘ in the Ximhungwe circuit of the Bohlabela district in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The study explored the impact of using a constructivist type of teaching in...

This paper reports on a study to determine the effectiveness of collaborative teaching on physical sciences students' comprehension of electrochemistry in the Ximhungwe circuit of the Bohlabela district in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The design of the teaching strategy draws upon theoretical insights into perspectives of social constru...

This paper is part of a larger study that investigated the ‘Effectiveness of collaboration on low and high achieving school students’ comprehension of electrochemistry in South Africa’. The study occurred in the Ximhungwe circuit of the Bohlabela district in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The theoretical framework for this study was based...

This paper investigates physical sciences students’ perceptions of classroom environment and their attitude towards chemistry in South African High Schools’ in the Ximhungwe circuit of the Bohlabela district in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The present paper reports on the research findings on associations between the type of school atte...

This paper reports on a study to determine the effectiveness of collaborative teaching on physical sciences students' comprehension of electrochemistry in the Ximhungwe circuit of the Bohlabela district in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The design of the teaching strategy draws upon theoretical insights into perspectives of social constru...

This paper is part of a larger study to investigate female students in science and technology-based university (STU) programs in their motivation, perception and constraint in learning science at senior high school and consequently science and technology-based programs at the university level. The conceptual framework is rooted in Steele’s concept...

The study was aimed at investigating differences among female students in science and technology-based university (STU) programmes in their motivation in learning science. The study utilized cross-sectional descriptive survey design. The theoretical framework for this study was based upon the Self-determination theory of motivation and Social Learn...

This study reports on the research findings on associations between student’s gender and their perception of their chemistry classroom environment and their attitude towards chemistry, in the Ximhungwe circuit of the Bohlabela district in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. A sample of 210 grade 12 physical sciences students from all the ten p...

The study was aimed at investigating the factors affecting performance of female students in science in some selected colleges of education in Ghana. The theoretical framework for this study was based upon the Self-determination theory of motivation and Social Learning Theory of Career Decision-Making. The target population comprised all the 1680 f...