Faculty of Science: Recent submissions
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Diversity of Macro Invertebrates of the River Rwizi in Western Uganda: A Citizen Science-BioBlitz Approach
(Open Journal of Ecology,, 2024)This study elucidates the pivotal role of citizen science-BioBlitz methodologies for rapid assessment of the macro-invertebrate taxa within the threatened River Rwizi of South-western Uganda. Utilizing a comprehensive ... -
The Role of Remote Sensing in Forest Cover Changes in Butambala District, Central Uganda
(East African Journal of Forestry and Agroforestry, 2024)Natural forests in Uganda have experienced changes which must be quantified to inform future forest resource management and avoid the danger of reduced ecosystem service benefits. The primary purpose of this study was to ... -
Review of the Past, Current, and the Future Trend of the Climate Change and its Impact in Uganda.
(East African Journal of Environment and Natural Resources, 2022)Climate change is a big problem in Sub-Saharan Africa because it brings about prolonged droughts and heavy rainfall that destroys crops. Further, heavy rainfall amounts throughout the entire region have caused flooding and ... -
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 ... -
Densification of raw and torrefied biomass: A review
(Biomass and Bioenergy, 2024)Densification and torrefaction are potential technologies to valorize lignocellulosic residues into cleaner and sustainable alternative energy carriers for domestic, institutional, commercial and industrial thermal energy ... -
Citizens can help to map putative transmission sites for snail-borne diseases
(LOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2024)Introduction: Schistosomiasis and fasciolosis are snail-borne diseases of great medical and veterinary health importance. The World Health Organization recommends complementing drug treatment with snail control and community ... -
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 ... -
Can citizen scientists provide a reliable geo-hydrological hazard inventory? An analysis of biases, sensitivity and precision for the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda
(Environmental Research Letters, 2022)Spatio-temporal inventory of natural hazards is a challenging task especially in rural or remote areas in the Global South where data collection at regional scale is difficult. Citizen science, i.e. involvement of no-experts ... -
Fruit Phenology of Tree Species and Chimpanzees’ Choice of Consumption in Kalinzu Forest Reserve, Uganda
(Open Journal of Ecology, 2015)One hundred and eighteen (118) tree species were identified, among which 58 species produced fruit within the two-year study. Fruit of only 26.3% of the latter is eaten by chimpanzees. The consumption of each of these ... -
Dietary diversity among women of reproductive age (15-49 years): implication for folate deficiency in Mbarara district, Uganda
(International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health, 2019)Background: Understanding dietary diversity of women of reproductive age (WRA) is vital for better nutritional interventions of their health and that of unborn. Most diets consumed are macronutrient dense which leads to ... -
Can Governance in Revenue Sharing Be a Pathway for a Win-win Situation between People’s Livelihood Improvement and Conservation?
(Journal of Social Science Research, 2015)This paper establishes the importance of good governance in improving local livelihoods and support for conservation. The study uses empirical realities from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, an afromontane Gorilla sanctuary ... -
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 ...
