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Technical Staff's Conception of Training and Development and Its Influence on Performance: The Case of University of Cape Coast, Ghana
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Hassana Ahmed; Joseph Cudjoe Sefenu; John Victor Mensah; Gabriel Keney – International Journal of Training Research, 2024
Appropriate, efficient and effective staff training and development programmes have the tendency to enhance work performance in an organisation. The study analysed technical staffs' conception of training and development (T&D) and its influence on work performance in the University of Cape Coast. The mixed methods approach was used to collect…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Personnel, Higher Education, Staff Development
Integrating ICT into Schools in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Teachers' Capacity Building to Classroom Implementation
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Agyei, Douglas Darko – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
This study followed up on a selected cohort of 4945 Science, Technology, English and Mathematics (STEM) teacher participants from six Sub-Saharan African countries namely: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Ghana and Nigeria. The teachers were involved in an instructional digital professional development programme targeted at building their…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Information Technology, Capacity Building, Curriculum Implementation
Effect and Snags of Provision of In-Service Education and Training for Teachers in Basic Schools for the Deaf
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Issaka, Cecilia Alimatu – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2018
Regular and effective provision of in-service training for teachers is a necessary practice for the educational development of any country. The provision of effective in-service training and education for special teachers is however bedeviled with many challenges. To appraise the effect and problems of inservice training in Ghana, a survey…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Deafness, Special Schools
Experimental Impacts of the "Quality Preschool for Ghana" Interventions on Teacher Professional Well-Being, Classroom Quality, and Children's School Readiness
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Wolf, Sharon; Aber, J. Lawrence; Behrman, Jere R.; Tsinigo, Edward – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2019
We assessed the impacts of a teacher professional development program for public and private kindergartens in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. We examined impacts on teacher professional well-being, classroom quality, and children's readiness during one school year. This cluster-randomized trial included 240 schools (teachers N = 444; children N…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Intervention
An Evaluative Study of a Distance Teacher Education Program in a University in Ghana
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Sampong, Kwasi Addo – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
The study used an adaptation of Provus' discrepancy evaluation model to evaluate a distance teacher education program in the University of Cape Coast, the premier teacher education institution in Ghana. The study involved comparing performance data of the program as perceived by students and faculty/administrators to standards prepared from the…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Distance Education, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Harnessing Open Educational Resources to the Challenges of Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Thakrar, Jayshree; Zinn, Denise; Wolfenden, Freda – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
The challenges to teacher educators in sub-Saharan Africa are acute. This paper describes how the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) consortium is working within institutional and national policy systems to support school-based teacher professional development. The TESSA consortium (13 African institutions and 5 international…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Consortia, Educational Resources