This study was designed to determine the competence needs of teachers under this approach. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. The sample consisted of 737 teachers proportionally sampled from 67 public secondary schools in the three education zones of Cross River Sta...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/13969
Aims: To estimate the prevalence of psychosomatic symptomsamong traumatized Palestinian adolescents in Gaza Strip. Methods: The study sample consisted of 380 adolescents randomly selected from secondary schools in Gaza Strip, of whom 171 were boys and 209 were girls between 15-18...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/14670
Private universities have become key partners in the provision of higher education in Africa. A remarkable feature of tertiary education in Ghana at the end of the 20th Century was the exponential increase and intense participation of the private sector in the establishment and d...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/17104
Aims: The current study aimed at examining how frequency of classroom assessment communication can make different types of perceived assessment environment salient and consequently affect academic achievement. Study Design: The study employed a descriptive correlational research...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/17670
There are several factors, which influence people’s perception and valuation of different branches of knowledge and particularly of mathematics. This paper reports a study, which investigated the attitudes towards mathematics of computer engineering students. Likert scale test wa...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/15806
Aims: To verify the influence of the role of ICT’s (Information and Communication Technologies) as a teaching and learning process in the classes of chemistry discipline for the 3rd years high school students, and show the importance of computational chemistry programs as a metho...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/14819
According to the 2010 Population and Housing Census report of Ghana, Yamoransa has one of the highest number of young adolescents in the Mfantseman Municipality. However, it appears there is no evidence of empirical study conducted on adolescents’ knowledge and perception of sexu...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/16098
The dual career family is now obviously a global phenomenon. Women are fully part of the work force and majority of them are now combining the home front with their careers. This new development has a chain of effects on the emotional development of adolescents from such families...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/16839
The understanding of the educational environment is vital for the success of the learners and the course—especially in an online setting. Numerous interconnected elements exist which influence the experience of a learner. By analyzing and deconstructing seven specific terms (comm...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/16876
Aims: To test cognitive sex differences in a visual tracking task. We hypothesize that males show a bias for bottom-up strategy during the tracking task, while females use more of a top down strategy during tracking. Study Design: Cognitive sex differences typically favor males i...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/16900