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An Empirical Study of Challenges and Management Supports in Teaching and Learning of Social Studies in the Public Senior High Schools of Ghana
Universal Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
| Vol 3, Issue 2
Table 3. Summary results of t-test statistics of students’ Challengesand Management
| N=261; df =260 | |||||
| t | P- value | Mean Difference | 95% Confidence Interval of the Difference | ||
| Lower | Upper | ||||
| Teachers do not motivate me to learn social studies. | 28.139 | .000 | 1.87739 | 1.7460 | 2.0088 |
| The period on the timetable for learning social studies is adequate. | 47.411 | .000 | 3.59770 | 3.4483 | 3.7471 |
| My school has adequate social studies reference material for social studies lessons | 32.942 | .000 | 2.54406 | 2.3920 | 2.6961 |
| During Social Studies practical lessons, we share practical tools. | 21.866 | .000 | 2.31801 | 2.1093 | 2.5268 |
| My social studies teachers give more group assignments than individual assignments. | 37.563 | .000 | 3.09195 | 2.9299 | 3.2540 |
| The period allocated for Social Studies practical is not sufficient for me. | 35.229 | .000 | 2.96169 | 2.7961 | 3.1272 |
| My social studies teachers teach some aspects of the subjects better than other aspects | 32.119 | .000 | 2.72414 | 2.5571 | 2.8911 |
| The school has a Social Studies resources centre | 29.966 | .000 | 1.70115 | 1.5894 | 1.8129 |
| I have problems in understanding things in social studies class because it is too large | 28.250 | .000 | 2.31034 | 2.1493 | 2.4714 |
| My social studies teachers do not complete the syllabus before final examinations | 29.052 | .000 | 2.70498 | 2.5216 | 2.8883 |