An Empirical Study of Challenges and Management Supports in Teaching and Learning of Social Studies in the Public Senior High Schools of Ghana
Table 3.
Summary results of t-test statistics of students’ Challengesand Management
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N=261; df =260 |
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| t |
P- value |
Mean Difference |
95% Confidence Interval of the Difference |
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| Lower |
Upper |
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| Teachers do not motivate me to learn social studies. |
28.139 |
.000 |
1.87739 |
1.7460 |
2.0088 |
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| The period on the timetable for learning social studies is adequate. |
47.411 |
.000 |
3.59770 |
3.4483 |
3.7471 |
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| My school has adequate social studies reference material for social studies lessons |
32.942 |
.000 |
2.54406 |
2.3920 |
2.6961 |
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| During Social Studies practical lessons, we share practical tools. |
21.866 |
.000 |
2.31801 |
2.1093 |
2.5268 |
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| My social studies teachers give more group assignments than individual assignments. |
37.563 |
.000 |
3.09195 |
2.9299 |
3.2540 |
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| The period allocated for Social Studies practical is not sufficient for me. |
35.229 |
.000 |
2.96169 |
2.7961 |
3.1272 |
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| My social studies teachers teach some aspects of the subjects better than other aspects |
32.119 |
.000 |
2.72414 |
2.5571 |
2.8911 |
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| The school has a Social Studies resources centre |
29.966 |
.000 |
1.70115 |
1.5894 |
1.8129 |
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| I have problems in understanding things in social studies class because it is too large |
28.250 |
.000 |
2.31034 |
2.1493 |
2.4714 |
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| My social studies teachers do not complete the syllabus before final examinations |
29.052 |
.000 |
2.70498 |
2.5216 |
2.8883 |
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