Educational Foundation and Psychology: Recent submissions
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Technology Use and Job Performance of Academic Staff of Bishop Stuart University
(East African Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2024)The study investigated the impact of technology use on job performance of academic staff. In particular, the study examined the influence of teaching technological use, managerial technological use, and research technological ... -
Teaching-Learning Facilities and Students’ Academic Performance in Chemistry Subject in Lower Secondary Schools in the Era of Quality Assurance Implementation
(ISAR Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 2024)This research paper explores the impact of teaching-learning facilities on students' academic performance in Chemistry at the lower secondary school level within the context of quality assurance policy implementation. The ... -
Organizational structure, capacity and reach of organizations involved in alcohol prevention: An assessment of stakeholders across five countries in East Africa
(International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research, 2024)Aims: East African countries, classified as low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), are disproportionately harmed by alcohol consumption, and many countries lack strategies to address and prevent alcohol harm. This study ... -
Evaluating video-based PBL approach on performance and critical thinking ability among Ugandan form-2 secondary school students
(Cogent Education, 2024)In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on innovative teaching methods in secondary education as educators seek to enhance students’ critical thinking abilities and motivation to lean. This research focuses on ... -
Students’ performance, attitude, and classroom observation data to assess the effect of problem-based learning approach supplemented by Youtube videos in Ugandan classroom
(Scientific Data, 2024)In response to global demands, Uganda’s Vision 2040 seeks to transform the country into a modern and prosperous nation by implementing Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, focusing on equitable and quality education. The ... -
STEM Education and the Role of the HEAC in Uganda
(2024)The Higher Education Access Certificate programme, initiated in Uganda in 2016, is a bridging pathway for students who do not meet the conventional entry requirements for tertiary education. This study investigates the ... -
Instructors and Students’ Practices and Behaviours during a Quantum Physics class at the University of Rwanda: Exploring the Usage of Multimedia
(International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 2022)This study was aimed at exploring the usage of multimedia during a quantum physics class. Five instructors and 385 undergraduate students at the University of Rwanda, College of Education (UR-CE) were observed and surveyed. ... -
Assessment of self-efficacy beliefs and academic performance for sources and implications in high and low achieving secondary schools in Mbarara district, Uganda
(International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 2020)The major purpose of the study was to assess the relationship between self-efficacy beliefs and academic performance between high and low achieving secondary schools in Mbarara District. The study also explored the sources ... -
Accent and Ugandan Students’ Comprehension of Mathematical Concepts and Terms: An Experimental Study.
(African Journal of Teacher Education, 2020)The embrace of diversity and multiculturalism in education facilitates the broadening of students’ experiences as they engage with teachers and classmates from backgrounds different than their own. However, while the ... -
Dataset for measuring the conceptual understanding of optics in Rwanda
(F1000Research, 2022)This dataset is an accumulation of data collected to test Rwandan physics students’ conceptual understanding of light phenomena and to assess instructional tools for active learning of optics. We collected and analysed ... -
Effect of problem-based learning on students’ attitude towards learning physics- a cohort study
(F1000Research, 2022)Background: Attitude is a learning scale that informs which approach should be used to call students to school. It can be seen a supporting tool that informs teachers, policymakers, and researchers of the needs for raising ... -
The Influence of School Culture Adoption on the Performance of Teachers in Secondary Schools in Mbarara Municipality
(Asian Education, 2023)The study aims at establishing the level of school culture adoption, level of performance of teachers and the relationship between school culture adoption and performance of teachers in secondary schools in Mbarara ... -
A scientometric review of multimedia in teaching and learning of physics
(International Journal on Math, Science and Technology Education, 2022)A subject of physics includes various complex and sophisticated concepts that pose a challenge for both instructors to teach and students to grasp the clarity in the subject. Many researchers have discussed this challenge ... -
Exploring the impact of Stein et al.’s levels of cognitive demand in supporting students’ mathematics heuristic problem-solving abilities
(In Frontiers in Education, 2023)The present study explored the impact of Stein et al.’s levels of cognitive demand (LCD) on evaluation and instructional methods in applying the knowledge of equations and inequalities to learn the topic of linear programming ... -
Enhancing the Learning of Limits of Functions Using Multiple Representations
(Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2023)This is an exploratory study considering instructional methods in mathematics education. The study examined misconceptions arising from selected assignments undertaken by sixty-five students. The students were attending a ... -
Building on Students’ Prior Mathematical Thinking: Exploring Students’ Reasoning Interpretation of Preconceptions in Learning Mathematics
(Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2023)The present study explored 285 11th-grade students’ preconceptions, misconceptions, and errors in solving mathematics tasks by graphical method. A descriptive-explorative study design was adopted. Cluster sampling was used ... -
Students’ perceptions regarding interventions to reduce substance use and its concomitant impact on competence among adolescents in public secondary schools in Uganda
(Journal of Educational Sciences and Psychology, 2015)Background: Psychoactive substance use interventions have been well document to be more effective when participatory rather than prescriptive. Despite many calculable evidences examining PASU prevention, there was paucity ... -
Grit Predicts Academic Achievement among Undergraduate Science Teachers at a University of Science and Technolog
(Qeios, 2023)Background: Research shows that grit is one of the non-cognitive factors that affect academic achievement among college students. As a result, grit has of late attracted attention among academic circles. Methods: We used ... -
Ornate PhDs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Purpose and Quality Concerns
(Academia Letters, 2021)In academia, every maneuver follows, or should seem to have a purpose. In view of that, an earned doctoral degree is primarily purposed in training and educating new scholars in preparation for the development of knowledge ... -
Family Socioeconomic Status, Religiosity and Alcohol Use among Secondary School Adolescents in Bushenyi Ishaka Municipality, Uganda
(African Journal of Teacher Education, 2018)This paper reports research on levels of family socioeconomic status, religiosity and alcohol use among secondary school adolescents in Bushenyi Ishaka Municipality, Uganda (BIM). The study employed a cross- sectional ...