4 research outputs found
The Contribution of Organisational Citizenship Behavior on Students’ Study Groups Achievement at the Tertiary Level, A case of University for Development Studies (UDS)
Organisational Citizenship behavior (OCB) is an organizational construct that have been measured in various ways in research works and have been empirically found to enhance individual and group performance in non-educational organizations. The aim of this research was to test OCB in the educational organization setting using student learning groups to assess the contribution of OCB on students’ group achievement. By employing the experimental design, two groups (controlled group and non-controlled group) were used to measure the effect of OCB intervention on students’ group achievement. The results showed that there was significant association between OCB and students’ academic achievement however there was no significant difference between students previous and current achievement for both groups, even after the intervention. It was recommended that future studies should extend the experimental period since it takes longer time for some people; by nature; to adjust to new behaviors
What perceived practices of teachers contribute to students’ mathematics learning and achievement at the SHS level? A Case study in the Central region of Ghana
This study examines the importance of Senior High School level mathematics to the development of a country. It would not be enough for a country to just believe that mathematics is important until a substantial amount of the subject content have been successfully imparted into a country’s schooling citizens. This has made students’ mathematics achievement an issue of concern to many countries of today including Ghana. These concerns have necessitated this research to investigate what should be done by educational institutions to enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics. Various outcomes and contributions made in the past regarding teachers endeavors have been provided to students to learn and achieve in mathematics have been reviewed in this study to inform readers of what have existed already. While some reviewed works criticized methods used in teaching mathematics and also condemned shorter instructional periods for the teaching and learning of mathematics, others made suggestions and recommendations that would help improve achievement in the subject. This work employed both quantitative and qualitative methods. The analysis revealed that majority of SHS mathematics teachers perceives the following professional activities to be influential to SHS students’ mathematics development: Assigning mathematics homework and reviewing the given homework, encouraging learners to work in groups, engaging the whole class in discussion, using additional mathematics textbooks as instructional tools, taking students' prior understanding into account when planning a lesson and motivating student to practice mathematics on their ow
Currency reform, currency biases and Ghana's forex market fluctuations: Beyond the macroeconomic fundamentals
Redenomination of currency has become a common phenomenon in recent past among emerging and transitional economies. In 2007, Ghana became one of the economies to redenominate in recent past. This currency policy adaptation has the potential of triggering certain individual behavioral biases on the forex market. This study provides evidence that currency biases that accompanied Ghana's currency reform adaptation in 2007 contribute to its forex market price (exchange rate) fluctuations. Using data from 1980 to 2018 with some estimated biases and some selected macroeconomic fundamentals as covariates in an ANCOVA (Analysis of Covariance) model, the study revealed that estimated biases which were induced as a result of currency reform adaptation impact positively and significantly on Ghana's forex market prices. It is therefore recommended that policy makers, political leaders and stakeholders begin to look at human factors that may exist in the forex market and incorporate this information into future plans in addressing issues relating to forex market fluctuations
Insurance and sectorial growth nexus: Evidence from a developing economy
AbstractThe insurance industry plays a substantive vitality in the growth of the economy. However, there is limited literature on the activities of the insurance industry and economic growth in Ghana. As one of the fastest-growing economies in sub-Saharan Africa before the global pandemic in 2020, there is a need to investigate the factors that influence the growth of the economy, of which insurance cannot be underscored. Moreover, proxies used to measure insurance for developing economies combined life insurance (LI) and non-life insurance (NLI) as one indicator. Also, none of the earlier studies considered the impact of insurance on sectorial growth in Ghana. Hence, this study relies on methodological innovation to fill in the literature gap. We employed time-series data from 1989 to 2022. From the Autoregressive Distributed Lag Analysis, an affirmative link was seen between LI and sectorial growth in both short-term and long-term period. With regards to the link between NLI and sectorial growth, except for service sector which revealed a positive but insignificant association, the other variables revealed an affirmative link between NLI and sectorial growth for both short term and long term. The findings affirm that NLI contributes significantly to the three sectors of the economy than LI. In addition, the findings confirm that the activities of insurance in the service sector of the economy are much more enormous than that of the industry and agricultural sectors