• Entry characteristics, academic achievement and teaching practices: A comparative study of two categories of newly qualified teachers in basic schools in Ghana 

  Kwaah, Christopher Yaw; Palojoki, Paivi (Kwaah & Palojoki, Cogent Education, 2018)

  Entry qualification, academic achievement, and teaching practices of newly qualified teachers (NQTs) qenrolled into the teacher education programme directly from senior high school (DfSHS) were compared with NQTs enrolled ...
• Effects of Parental Attitudes Toward Spousal Violence on Early Childhood Development and Learning Support Among Ghanaian Children 

  Kofinti, Raymond Elikplim; Ewusie, Ewura - Adwoa; Kwaah, Christopher Yaw; Asmah, Emmanuel Ekow (Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2020)

  The prevalence of condoning attitudes toward spousal violence (SV) is high in Ghana, yet much is not known about how the development of children is compromised in households where attitudes toward SV are tolerated. This ...
• How language and culture affect the learning of fractions: A case study in the Kingdom of Tonga 

  Morris, Noah (Kingdom of Tonga. Proceedings of the IV ERME Topic Conference, 2018)

  In this paper, I look at how different cultural practices go hand in hand with different discourses and how the two of them together have an impact on the learning of certain formal mathematical ideas. The findings are ...
• Changing Roles of Women: Examining the Reciprocal Effects of Female Academics’ Job and Family Roles in Public Universities in Ghana 

  Anane, Eric; Dankwa, Juliana Audria (Journal of Educational and Social Research, 2017)

  The role of women in society seems to be predefined in terms of cultural and physiological lines. Some people think the woman is not capable of taking up some executive positions, because they are weak and too feeble to ...
• An Investigation of Provision of Quality Basic Education in Ghana A Case Study of Selected Schools in the Central Region 

  Ampiah, Joseph Ghartey; Davis, Ernest Kofi (Journal of International Cooperation in Education, 2008)

  This study investigated teaching and learning in six private and public (rural and urban) basic schools in two districts in the Central Region of Ghana. Six headteachers and 26 teachers whose classes or lessons were ...
• An Investigation of Junior High School students' ideology of fraction in the Cape Coast Metropolis of Ghana 

  Amuah, Ebo; Davis, Ernest Kofi; Fletcher, Jonathan (Journal Science and Mathematics Education, 2019)

  This paper reports of a study that investigated Ghanaian JHS students' understanding of selected concept of fraction. In all, nine JHS 3 students comprising, three each from high, average and low performing Junior ...
• A radical-local approach to bringing cultural practices into mathematics teaching in Ghanaian primary schools, exemplified in the case of measurement 

  Davis, E. K.; Chaiklin, S. (African Journal of Educational Studies in Mathematics and Sciences, 2015)

  The main aim of this article is to put forward the idea of the general value of the radical-local approach to teaching and learning for the development of mathematics teaching in Ghana, both in relation to classroom ...
• “We don’t understand english that is why we prefer English”: primary school students’ preference For the language of instruction in mathematics 

  DAVIS, ERNEST KOFI; BISHOP, ALAN J.; SEAH, WEE TIONG (International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2015)

  This paper reports on a study which sought to investigate how social and political influences affect students’ preference for language of instruction in mathematics in Ghana, where the language of instruction from grade ...
• Young people on the margins: in need of more choices and more chances in twenty-first century Scotland 

  Finlay, Ian; Sheridan, Marion; McKay, Jane; Nudzor, Hope Pius (British Educational Research Journal, 2010)

  The aim of this study was to find out more about the lives of young people in the category ‘not in education, employment or training’ (NEET). We worked intensively with 26 young people in four smaller groups, spending ...
• Utilisation of ‘IEPA’ graduates in sectors of the Ghanaian economy: insights from a nation-wide tracer study 

  Nudzor, Hope Pius; Agbevanu, Wisdom Korku; Nyame, Gloria; Ampah-Mensah, Alfred Kweku (Journal of Education and Work, 2019)

  This article reports on a nation-wide tracer study conducted by the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA), which examined how her graduates were utilised by employers in sectors of the Ghanaian ...
• Updating polytechnic teachers’ knowledge and skills through teacher design teams in Ghana 

  Bakah, Marie A.B.; Voogt, Joke M.; Pieters, Jules M. (Professional Development in Education, 2012)

  While teachers and administrators in polytechnics in Ghana have categorically expressed the growing need for the former’s knowledge and skills to be updated in the era of polytechnic transformation, little attention has ...
• Effects of Training on the Performance of Senior Administrative Staff of University of Cape Coast 

  Andoh, Raphael Papa Kweku; Appiah, Robert; Adom-Nyankey, Mark Kofi (Business Management and Strategy, 2016)

  The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of training programmes and opportunities for transfer of training on the performance of senior administrative staff of UCC. The descriptive survey design was employed ...
• Educational Reforms and the Role of Polytechnic Education in the Socio- economic Development of Ghana. 

  Iddrisu, Sulemana; Kinder, Tony; Alhassan, Eliasu (AFRICA DEVELOPMENT AND RESOURCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE (ADRRI) JOURNAL, 2014)

  This paper contributes to the debate on the educational reforms and the role of the polytechnics in economic development of Ghana. The paper was an outcome of a review of secondary data supported by interviews with, ...
• Examining activity-based learning (ABL) practices in public basic schools in the northern region of Ghana 

  Oduro, George K.T.; Bosu, Rosemary; Nudzor, Hope P.; Dare, Albert (Educational Research, 2015)

  Background: Ghana has been the testing ground for many teaching and learning initiatives over the past 15–20 years. These initiatives, largely funded by donors, have sought to improve learning by introducing and reinforcing ...
• The views of district directors of education on distance education for teachers in the Upper West Region of Ghana 

  Amina, Jangu Alhassan (International Journal of Innovative Research and Advanced Studies (IJIRAS), 2015)

  The purpose of this study is to investigate the views of District Directors of Education towards distance education programmes in the Upper West Region of Ghana. There are some common misgivings about the attitudes of ...
• The Routledge encyclopaedia of UK education, training and employment: from the earliest statutes to the present day 

  Nudzor, Hope Pius (European Journal of Teacher Education, 2011)

  The development of human capital in the UK (like in many other developed nations) has evolved rapidly in recent years. Unfortunately however, the changing nature, range and variety of systems, initiatives and agencies ...
• Headteacher leadership development in Sub-Saharan Africa 

  Oduro, George K.T. (Commonwealth Education Partnerships, 2009)

  Governments in Sub-Saharan Africa have, since the 2000 World Education Forum in Dakar, demonstrated high commitment to achieving Education for All (EFA) by 2015. In collaboration with development partners, a number of ...
• The big question: why do change initiatives in education often fail to yield desired results? 

  Nudzor, Hope Pius (Educationalfutures, 2013)

  Although a wealth of fascinating literature on change management abounds in education, there is credible evidence to suggest that a lot of initiatives introduced with the view to bringing about improvement in pupils’ ...
• Teachers’ use of language in teaching mathematics in Basic Schools in Cape Coast, Ghana 

  Ampah–Mensah, Alfred (Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, 2009)

  In this paper, I present the initial analysis of data collected on how teachers in two basic schools in Cape Coast use language in teaching mathematics to classes four and six pupils and why they use language the way ...
• Student evaluation of modules: does the timing Matter? 

  Ansah, Francis; Nudzor, Hope Pious; Swanzy, Patrick (The Online Journal of Quality in Higher Education, 2017)

  The common practice in many higher education institutions in Ghana and Africa is for module evaluation to be carried out at the end of teaching and learning activities. It is usually done before the final semester ...

• Entry characteristics, academic achievement and teaching practices: A comparative study of two categories of newly qualified teachers in basic schools in Ghana 

  Kwaah, Christopher Yaw; Palojoki, Paivi (Kwaah & Palojoki, Cogent Education, 2018)

  Entry qualification, academic achievement, and teaching practices of newly qualified teachers (NQTs) qenrolled into the teacher education programme directly from senior high school (DfSHS) were compared with NQTs enrolled ...
• Effects of Parental Attitudes Toward Spousal Violence on Early Childhood Development and Learning Support Among Ghanaian Children 

  Kofinti, Raymond Elikplim; Ewusie, Ewura - Adwoa; Kwaah, Christopher Yaw; Asmah, Emmanuel Ekow (Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2020)

  The prevalence of condoning attitudes toward spousal violence (SV) is high in Ghana, yet much is not known about how the development of children is compromised in households where attitudes toward SV are tolerated. This ...
• How language and culture affect the learning of fractions: A case study in the Kingdom of Tonga 

  Morris, Noah (Kingdom of Tonga. Proceedings of the IV ERME Topic Conference, 2018)

  In this paper, I look at how different cultural practices go hand in hand with different discourses and how the two of them together have an impact on the learning of certain formal mathematical ideas. The findings are ...
• Changing Roles of Women: Examining the Reciprocal Effects of Female Academics’ Job and Family Roles in Public Universities in Ghana 

  Anane, Eric; Dankwa, Juliana Audria (Journal of Educational and Social Research, 2017)

  The role of women in society seems to be predefined in terms of cultural and physiological lines. Some people think the woman is not capable of taking up some executive positions, because they are weak and too feeble to ...
• An Investigation of Provision of Quality Basic Education in Ghana A Case Study of Selected Schools in the Central Region 

  Ampiah, Joseph Ghartey; Davis, Ernest Kofi (Journal of International Cooperation in Education, 2008)

  This study investigated teaching and learning in six private and public (rural and urban) basic schools in two districts in the Central Region of Ghana. Six headteachers and 26 teachers whose classes or lessons were ...
• An Investigation of Junior High School students' ideology of fraction in the Cape Coast Metropolis of Ghana 

  Amuah, Ebo; Davis, Ernest Kofi; Fletcher, Jonathan (Journal Science and Mathematics Education, 2019)

  This paper reports of a study that investigated Ghanaian JHS students' understanding of selected concept of fraction. In all, nine JHS 3 students comprising, three each from high, average and low performing Junior ...
• A radical-local approach to bringing cultural practices into mathematics teaching in Ghanaian primary schools, exemplified in the case of measurement 

  Davis, E. K.; Chaiklin, S. (African Journal of Educational Studies in Mathematics and Sciences, 2015)

  The main aim of this article is to put forward the idea of the general value of the radical-local approach to teaching and learning for the development of mathematics teaching in Ghana, both in relation to classroom ...
• “We don’t understand english that is why we prefer English”: primary school students’ preference For the language of instruction in mathematics 

  DAVIS, ERNEST KOFI; BISHOP, ALAN J.; SEAH, WEE TIONG (International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2015)

  This paper reports on a study which sought to investigate how social and political influences affect students’ preference for language of instruction in mathematics in Ghana, where the language of instruction from grade ...
• Young people on the margins: in need of more choices and more chances in twenty-first century Scotland 

  Finlay, Ian; Sheridan, Marion; McKay, Jane; Nudzor, Hope Pius (British Educational Research Journal, 2010)

  The aim of this study was to find out more about the lives of young people in the category ‘not in education, employment or training’ (NEET). We worked intensively with 26 young people in four smaller groups, spending ...
• Utilisation of ‘IEPA’ graduates in sectors of the Ghanaian economy: insights from a nation-wide tracer study 

  Nudzor, Hope Pius; Agbevanu, Wisdom Korku; Nyame, Gloria; Ampah-Mensah, Alfred Kweku (Journal of Education and Work, 2019)

  This article reports on a nation-wide tracer study conducted by the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA), which examined how her graduates were utilised by employers in sectors of the Ghanaian ...
• Updating polytechnic teachers’ knowledge and skills through teacher design teams in Ghana 

  Bakah, Marie A.B.; Voogt, Joke M.; Pieters, Jules M. (Professional Development in Education, 2012)

  While teachers and administrators in polytechnics in Ghana have categorically expressed the growing need for the former’s knowledge and skills to be updated in the era of polytechnic transformation, little attention has ...
• Effects of Training on the Performance of Senior Administrative Staff of University of Cape Coast 

  Andoh, Raphael Papa Kweku; Appiah, Robert; Adom-Nyankey, Mark Kofi (Business Management and Strategy, 2016)

  The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of training programmes and opportunities for transfer of training on the performance of senior administrative staff of UCC. The descriptive survey design was employed ...
• Educational Reforms and the Role of Polytechnic Education in the Socio- economic Development of Ghana. 

  Iddrisu, Sulemana; Kinder, Tony; Alhassan, Eliasu (AFRICA DEVELOPMENT AND RESOURCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE (ADRRI) JOURNAL, 2014)

  This paper contributes to the debate on the educational reforms and the role of the polytechnics in economic development of Ghana. The paper was an outcome of a review of secondary data supported by interviews with, ...
• Examining activity-based learning (ABL) practices in public basic schools in the northern region of Ghana 

  Oduro, George K.T.; Bosu, Rosemary; Nudzor, Hope P.; Dare, Albert (Educational Research, 2015)

  Background: Ghana has been the testing ground for many teaching and learning initiatives over the past 15–20 years. These initiatives, largely funded by donors, have sought to improve learning by introducing and reinforcing ...
• The views of district directors of education on distance education for teachers in the Upper West Region of Ghana 

  Amina, Jangu Alhassan (International Journal of Innovative Research and Advanced Studies (IJIRAS), 2015)

  The purpose of this study is to investigate the views of District Directors of Education towards distance education programmes in the Upper West Region of Ghana. There are some common misgivings about the attitudes of ...
• The Routledge encyclopaedia of UK education, training and employment: from the earliest statutes to the present day 

  Nudzor, Hope Pius (European Journal of Teacher Education, 2011)

  The development of human capital in the UK (like in many other developed nations) has evolved rapidly in recent years. Unfortunately however, the changing nature, range and variety of systems, initiatives and agencies ...
• Headteacher leadership development in Sub-Saharan Africa 

  Oduro, George K.T. (Commonwealth Education Partnerships, 2009)

  Governments in Sub-Saharan Africa have, since the 2000 World Education Forum in Dakar, demonstrated high commitment to achieving Education for All (EFA) by 2015. In collaboration with development partners, a number of ...
• The big question: why do change initiatives in education often fail to yield desired results? 

  Nudzor, Hope Pius (Educationalfutures, 2013)

  Although a wealth of fascinating literature on change management abounds in education, there is credible evidence to suggest that a lot of initiatives introduced with the view to bringing about improvement in pupils’ ...
• Teachers’ use of language in teaching mathematics in Basic Schools in Cape Coast, Ghana 

  Ampah–Mensah, Alfred (Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, 2009)

  In this paper, I present the initial analysis of data collected on how teachers in two basic schools in Cape Coast use language in teaching mathematics to classes four and six pupils and why they use language the way ...
• Student evaluation of modules: does the timing Matter? 

  Ansah, Francis; Nudzor, Hope Pious; Swanzy, Patrick (The Online Journal of Quality in Higher Education, 2017)

  The common practice in many higher education institutions in Ghana and Africa is for module evaluation to be carried out at the end of teaching and learning activities. It is usually done before the final semester ...

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