The Impact of Government Funding on Students' Academic Performance in Ghana

Autor/inn/en	Abdul-Rahaman, Nurudeen; Ming, Wan; Abdul Rahaman, Abdul Basit; Amadu, Latif
Titel	The Impact of Government Funding on Students' Academic Performance in Ghana
Quelle	In: International Education Studies, 11 (2018) 7, S.83-91 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1913-9020
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Federal Aid; Educational Finance; Academic Achievement; High School Students; Financial Support; Statistical Analysis; Hypothesis Testing; Student Evaluation; Scores; Student Records; English (Second Language); Social Studies; Mathematics Instruction; Science Instruction; Ghana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsfonds; Schulleistung; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Finanzielle Förderung; Statistische Analyse; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Schülerakte; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Gemeinschaftskunde; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht
Abstract	High academic performance in senior high education is a significant issue that concerns the government and the people of Ghana because of the huge funding the government provides to schools in the form of progressive free senior high policy. Data starting from 2011/2012 to 2016/2017 academic years were picked from the students' continuous assessment register which contains students' academic records for each academic term. Data were collated and analyzed quantitatively using the Mann Whitney U Test to compare students' academic performance during the period of government partial funding (progressive free policy) from 2014/2015 to 2016/2017 academic years forming a group and no funding period, starting from 2011/2012 to 2013/2014 academic years which formed another group. For the purpose of this study, two groups of twenty (20) students were sampled making forty (40) students in total using the systematic sampling technique. The Mann Whitney U test was used to analyze academic performance of students who benefited from funding and those that do not benefit from funding. The findings indicate that government funding (progressive free policy) has a greater impact on students' academic performance. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01