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Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal – Vol. 9, No. 4

Publication Date: April 25, 2022

DOI:10.14738/assrj.94.12129. Kor, J. A. M., & Kyeremeh, A. (2022). Correlation Between Management of Teaching Learning Resources and Pupils Performance at

the Basic Level in Tutuka Circuit Schools of Obuasi, in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal,

9(4). 64-98.

Services for Science and Education – United Kingdom

Correlation Between Management of Teaching Learning

Resources and Pupils Performance at the Basic Level in Tutuka

Circuit Schools of Obuasi, in the Ashanti Region of Ghana

Jacob Aaworb-nang Maabobr Kor (PhD)

Senior Lecturer

College for Community and Organisation Development (CCOD)

Alex Kyeremeh (PhD C)

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to find out whether there was any significant

correlation between management of Teaching/Learning Resources (TLRs)

available in schools within Tutuka circuit and students’ performance at the BECE

examinations. A correlational design was used for the study. The sample for the

study consisted of head teachers and teachers. The total target population was 127

from which a sample of 125 was purposively selected. Ten head teachers and 115

teachers participated in the study. Data for the study were collected using two sets

of questionnaire, one for head teachers and another for teachers. The study

revealed that there was an inverse correlation (R = - 0.461) between management

of TLRs and students’ performance as measured by the BECE results. This value was

not statistically significant. The study also showed that TLRS were released to

schools in Tutuka Circuit on time and were efficiently managed by head teachers.

The study therefore recommends that management of TLRs be made an essential

part of in-service training for all head teachers to ensure that students derive

maximum benefit from the available resources.

Keywords: Adansi West District, Basic Education Certificate Examination, Criterion

Reference Test, Ghana National Association of Teachers, Ghana Living Standard,

JuniorSecondary School, Ministry of Education, Management of Teaching/Learning

Resources, Planning, Organising, Staffing, Directing, Co-ordinating and Budgeting,

Quantity of Teaching/Learning Resources, Students Performance, Senior Secondary

School Certificate, Exanimation, Teaching/Learning Resources, Teachers and Students

Accessibility to TLRS, United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, West

Africa Examination Council

INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

Between 1998 and 2000, results of pupils’ performance in the Basic Education certificate

Examination (BECE) was high in Tutuka Circuit schools. In 1998, for instance a total of 505

candidates were presented for the BECE out of this number 47% :ad aggregate 7 in the best five

subjects; 30% obtained between aggregates 8 and 20% had aggregates 21 to 35 (See Table 1).

Those who obtained aggregates, which could not allow them gain admission into secondary

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Kor, J. A. M., & Kyeremeh, A. (2022). Correlation Between Management of Teaching Learning Resources and Pupils Performance at the Basic Level

in Tutuka Circuit Schools of Obuasi, in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 9(4). 64-98.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.94.12129

school, constituted 3%. Any student who obtains aggregates 30 upwards is not expected to gain

admission into secondary school. This is a policy laid down by the Ghana Education Service.

The researcher’s experience as a chairman of the Ghana National Association of Teachers

(G.N.A.T) in the Adansi West District, Obuasi has put him in the limelight about teachers’

attitude towards work when the necessary inputs are available or not. TLRs play an important

or significant role in the efficient discharge of teachers’ room duties. During the interaction with

teachers some of them claimed that TLRs when supplied at the wrong time and in small

quantities affect pupils’ academic performance. This argument aroused the interest of the

researcher to make an investigation into this allegation.

Table 1: Adansi West District Pupils’ Performance in the 1998 B.E.C.E.

Aggregate Number of Candidates Percentage

7 237 47

8-20 152 30

21-35 101 20

36+ 15 3

Total 505 100

Source: West District Education Office.

In the year 2000, the number of candidates who wrote the BECE examinations in the Adansi

West district increased to 2, 650 with corresponding and comparatively better result. Table 2

presents the performance of students at the BECE in 2000. Table two below shows the

performance of students in the Adansi West District at the BECE in the year 2000. Majority of

the students qualified to enter Tertiary Institutions. About 62% of the students failed to qua1if’

to enter Tertiary Institution.

Table 2: Performance of Students in Adansi West District in the BECE in 2000

Aggregate Number of Candidates Percentage

7 1410 53.2

8-10 546 20.0

21- 35 529 20.0

Above 36+ 165 6.2

Total 100

Source:Adansi West District Education Office

These standards were up to the expectation of parents and society in Obuasi.