NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 5 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Odame, Lois; Opoku, Maxwell Peprah; Nketsia, William; Nanor, Betty – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2021
Equitable access to quality education has been recognised as an important human right in several international conventions. Despite the importance of education to persons with disabilities, their participation has been found to be ineffective. In the Ghanaian context, most previous studies have largely reported on barriers encountered in primary…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Graduates, Visual Impairments, Access to Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Asemanyi, Abena Abokoma – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study was done to find out the factors that account for the poor performances of students and to find out ways of improving the teaching and learning of the Communication Skills course at the University of Education, Winneba. The research also had an aim of bringing to light suggestions and recommendations on how to improve the teaching and…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Case Studies, Action Research, Instructional Improvement
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Stoffelsma, Lieke; Spooren, Wilbert – Educational Psychology, 2013
The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it is an attempt to fill in the blanks on the unexplored map of reading behaviours, attitudes, and self-concept of teacher education students in Ghana. Secondly, it investigates whether the negative perceptions of lecturers from the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and the University of Education Winneba…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits, Self Concept
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Laugharne, Richard; Appiah-Poku, John; Laugharne, Jon; Shankar, Rohit – Academic Psychiatry, 2009
Objective: Most sub-Saharan African countries have fewer psychiatrists than one per one million people. One possible reason could be that medical students have a negative attitude toward the specialty. The authors evaluated the attitudes toward a career in psychiatry of final-year medical students in Kumasi, Ghana, and compare these with attitudes…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Negative Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Psychiatry
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Oteng-Ababio, M. – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
Distance Education has globally become one of the important solutions for increasing admission into the universities, decongesting campuses and efficient utilization of time and space. To ensure the sustainability of the programmes' noble objectives calls for periodic re-evaluation of its modus operandi including the assessment of the perception…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Distance Education, Negative Attitudes