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Taylor, Mark – Online Submission, 2017
In Africa, approximately 80 million children are working. Africa's 41% child labor rate is nearly twice as high as that in Asia. This study examined whether child labor is a direct result of poverty or of reading and math problems in school. The study analyzed reading and math scores of 62 child laborers and 62 non-child laborers from a farming…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Labor, Poverty, Learning Problems
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Donkor, Anthony Kudjo; Lariba, Azure Love – Online Submission, 2017
The incidence of teenage pregnancy has been on the rise in Ghana, especially in the Bawku-East Municipality. In Ghana adults rarely discussed sexual matters with the youth. Thus, the youth have little or no information about the biological changes that take place in their bodies during the transitional period from youth to adulthood. This has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Early Parenthood, Pregnancy
Taylor, Mark – Online Submission, 2014
The catalyst for this study emerged from the unprecedented number of Ghanaian students with reading difficulties, in an environment where school counselors are generally unavailable, funding is limited, and most educators do not recognize learning disabilities as true disabilities. Based on the limitations of the IQ-achievement discrepancy model…
Descriptors: Correlation, Listening Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
Atta-Asamoah, Obed; Emefa Doe, Jennifer; Narh Tekpetey, Victor; Hepzibah Amprofi Boham, Eunice – Online Submission, 2014
The focus of this study was to assess the teaching effectiveness of English Grammar teachers in public Senior High Schools within the Cape Coast Metropolis using the Quality Teaching Model. It sought to ascertain how appropriately the three dimensions of the Quality Teaching Model are addressed in the teaching and assessment practices of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Grammar
Saah, Albert Amoah – Online Submission, 2013
The promotion of adult functional literacy programs per se, neither creates the necessary motivation for learning, nor enhances the participation of adult learners in work-oriented or socio-cultural functional literacy programs. The task in learning-teaching transaction is to create the enabling environment for harnessing and enhancing…
Descriptors: Functional Literacy, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Statistical Analysis
Wilson, Kofi Bentum; Ayebi-Arthur, Kofi; Tenkorang, Emmanuel Yamoah – Online Submission, 2011
This paper generally sought to investigate the integration level of ICT in the training of teacher trainees at University of Education, Winneba. All level 100 students were purposive targeted in particular since they were registered to take the ICT course. One hundred of the Level 100 students were randomly selected in class to perform tasks in…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Intervention, Statistical Analysis, Foreign Countries
Ayebi-Arthur, Kofi; Aidoo, Dora Baaba; Wilson, Kofi Bentum – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of the study was to investigate the utilization of the Internet in senior high schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis in the Central Region of Ghana. The sample consisted of 100 students and 25 teachers in three Senior High Schools. The stratified random sampling technique was used to select the three schools to represent the school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Internet, Technology Integration