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Training and development needs of public senior high school information communication technology teachers in the Accra metropolitan area

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dc.contributor.author Gordon, Seth Nii
dc.date.accessioned 2016-07-26T10:49:50Z
dc.date.available 2016-07-26T10:49:50Z
dc.date.issued 2013
dc.identifier.issn 23105496
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2706
dc.description x,78p.:ill en_US
dc.description.abstract A major identifiable challenge facing the development of the full potential of ICT for education, research and development in Ghana has been the brain drain syndrome and inadequate ICT professionals. This study therefore sought to assess the training and development needs of the public senior high school ICT teachers in the Accra Metropolis. The study employed a cross sectional design. Questionnaires were used to acquire data. There were 19 public SHS in the Accra Metropolis with an ICT teacher population of 60 at the time of the study. This number in addition to the nineteen heads of the institutions as well as the ICT coordinator gave a total of 80 who formed the population for the study. The results indicated an inadequate and imbalance distribution of ICT teachers. Sixty teachers had to teach 26,789 students giving a ratio of 1 teacher to 446 students. Resources for teaching the subject were also woefully inadequate. The results also indicted that very few public SHS ICT teachers in Accra Metro could effectively express their knowledge and skills in ICT. Many of them (71.7%) exhibited average knowledge and skills in the subject. The study concluded that there was inadequate human resource to effectively handle the subject. Also, a gap existed between the knowledge and skills of ICT teachers in Public SHS in the Accra Metropolis and the knowledge and skills required to perform their job. It is thus recommended that the public SHS in the Accra Metropolis be provided the necessary resources whiles regular ICT training should be organized for the teachers. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher University of Cape Coast en_US
dc.subject Training needs en_US
dc.subject Development needs en_US
dc.subject Training and development en_US
dc.subject Teacher development en_US
dc.subject ICT teachers en_US
dc.subject ICT training en_US
dc.subject Accra metropolitan area en_US
dc.title Training and development needs of public senior high school information communication technology teachers in the Accra metropolitan area en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US


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