Students’ Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Techniques Used in Teaching and Learning of Social Studies in the Colleges of Education in Ghana

Table 4.

Perception towards techniquesused in teaching and learning Social Studies

Statements	N	Mean	Standard deviation
Child centered techniques enhance understanding in Social Studies	277	2.88	0.88
An ideal Social Studies classroom should be dominated with teacher centered techniques	277	2.18	0.73
Lecture technique makes Social Studies class boring	277	2.59	0.75
Dramatization technique arouses students’ interest in Social Studies	277	2.94	0.81
Role play technique arouses students’ interest in Social Studies	277	3.01	1.35
Fieldtrip technique arouses student interest in Social Studies	277	2.78	0.94
Students feel happy when a tutor invites a resource person	277	2.98	1.29

Source: Field Data, 2021