IMPLEMENTATION OF STANDARD-BASED CURRICULUM IN GHANA: THE CONCERNS OF BASIC SCHOOL TEACHERS

This study has investigated the concerns of public basic school teachers about the implementation of the standard-based curriculum in Ghana. A cross-sectional survey design was employed to conduct the study in ten schools in the ten Sub-Metropolitan Assemblies in Kumasi. The schools were selected by using a stratified sampling technique. All the regular teachers in the selected schools totalling 281 were selected to answer the questionnaire. The Stages of Concerns Questionnaire (SoCQ) as developed by Hall et al (1979) was adopted to assess the concerns level of the basic school teachers regarding the implementation of the standard-based curriculum. There were 35 items which were designed in seven-point Likert scale as per the seven stages of concern viz., Awareness, informational, personal, management, consequent, collaboration and refocusing as in the Concern Based Adoption Model (CBAM). The collected data were processed by SPSS version16.0 and analysed by using mean and standard deviation and arrived at the findings as per the CBAM. Based on the findings, a recommendation was made for modification for further improvement.