Educational Foundation and Psychology: Recent submissions
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Data on students’ mathematical reasoning test scores: A quasi-experiment
(Data in Brief, 2020)The data presented here were collected from 301 grade 11 students selected from six public secondary schools within one district. These students participated in a quasi- experimental study whose aim was to investigate the ... -
Data collected to measure the impact of problem-based learning and document physics classroom practices among Ugandan secondary schools
(Data in Brief, 2022)This dataset comprises data collected from three measures; (a) 419 students who completed the mechanical waves conceptual survey (MWCS), (b) the same students (419 students) who completed the views about sciences survey ... -
Applying the Solo Taxonomy in Assessing and Fostering Students’ Mathematical Problem-Solving Abilities
(Science and Technology Education, 2020)This paper examines how the Structure of the Observed Learning Outcomes (SOLO) taxonomy can influence assessment and instructional approaches in fostering students’ mathematical problem solving abilities. To answer this ... -
An Analysis of Prospective Teachers’ Mathematical Reasoning on Number Concepts
(African Journal of Educational Studies in Mathematics and Sciences, 2019)This paper presents and discusses results of a case study that was carried out to understand the mathematical reasoning of 73 second year student teachers at a university in Zambia. The paper also demonstrates why it is ... -
Secondary School Students’ Motivation Profiles for Physics Learning: Relations with Cognitive Learning Strategies, Gender, Attitudes and Individual Interest
(African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021)For efficient and effective pedagogical interventions to address Uganda’s alarmingly poor performance in Physics, it is vital to understand students’ motivation patterns for Physics learning. Latent profile analysis (LPA)—a ... -
The Relationship between Cognitive Activation, Self-efficacy, Achievement Emotions and (Meta)cognitive Learning Strategies among Ugandan Biology Learners
(African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021)According to the control-value theory of achievement emotions, the influence of cognitive activation teaching strategies on students’ effective use of Cognitive and Meta-Cognitive (CMC) learning strategies is mediated by ... -
Relations between perceived teacher’s autonomy support, cognitive appraisals and boredom in physics learning among lower secondary school students
(International Journal of STEM Education, 2021)Background: Boredom during learning activities has the potential of impeding attention, motivation, learning and eventually achievement. Yet, research focusing on its possible antecedents seems to have received less attention ... -
Reducing physical and emotional violence by teachers using the intervention Interaction Competencies with Children – for Teachers (ICC-T): study protocol of a multi-country cluster randomized controlled trial in Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda
(BMC public health, 2021)Background: Violence has severe and long-lasting negative consequences for children’s and adolescents’ well-being and psychosocial functioning, thereby also hampering communities’ and societies’ economic growth. Positive ... -
Psychoactive Substance Use and School Performance among Adolescents in Public Secondary Schools in Uganda
(Higher Education Studies, 2014)Introduction: Psychoactive substance use among adolescents influences behavioral and cognitive processes and is associated with adolescents’ performance in school. We therefore sought to investigate association of PASU ... -
Professional impotence: Impact of alcohol abuse on secondary schoolteachers in Uganda
(International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research, 2013)Aims: We conducted this study to explore the impact of alcohol consumption on teachers’ jobs in Uganda. Specifically, we investigated the types of alcohol consumed by schoolteachers, reasons for alcohol abuse among teachers, ... -
Prioritisation and Nationalisation of Teaching of Sciences in Ugandan Schools: Practitioners and Documentary Perspectives
(Interdisciplinary Journal of Education Research, 2022)Considerable investment in and prioritization of teaching of sciences among secondary schools in Uganda have been made. But despite this, performance in sciences remains poor. We sought to understand why this is so, and ... -
Posttraumatic Cognitions, Avoidance Coping, Suicide, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Adolescent Refugees
(Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013)This cross-sectional survey examined posttraumatic cognitions, avoidance coping, suicide and trauma-related disorders of Congolese adolescent refugees in Nakivale refugee settlement. We interviewed 89 adolescents (aged ... -
Peer pressure, academic and social experience of secondary school teenagers in the outskirts of Mbarara municipality, Uganda
(Journal of Educational Sciences and Psychology, 2012)The present study was conducted to get scientific explanation of how teenagers constructively and destructively influence others in academic and social context. Cross-sectional design, qualitative method, and focus group ... -
Family Factors Associated with Consumption of Spirits: A Comparative Gender-Based Study of Ugandan Students in Public Secondary Schools
(Education Research International, 2020)This study aims at investigating family factors associated with consumption of spirits across gender of students in public secondary schools in Uganda. A cross-sectional survey using self-administered questionnaires was ... -
Factors influencing psychoactive substance use among adolescents in public secondary schools in Uganda
(International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research, 2017)Introduction: Studies exploring psychoactive substance use (PASU) among adolescents report a variety of both intrapersonal and interpersonal negatively and positively reinforcing factors. While existing studies have looked ... -
Effective Test Administration in Schools- Principals & Good Practices for Test Administrators in Uganda
(AJOTE, 2010)To establish academic achievement in any public school, teachers have to construct, administer and score tests or examinations. For a valid and reliable assessment of academic achievement, the tests should yield similar ... -
Demographic Variations in Achievement Goal Orienations Among Prisoners on Formal and Vocational Training in Uganda
(Journal of Prison Education and Reentry, 2018)This study aimed at evaluating why, despite the introduction of free prison education, prisoners in Uganda have lower formal and vocational skills compared to the general population. The study was basically quantitative ... -
Demographic Characteristics and Occupational Stress by Secondary School Teachers in Greater Bushenyi, Uganda
(East African Journal of Education and Social Sciences, 2022)This study sought to establish the differences in occupational stress across socio-demographic characteristics of secondary school teachers in Greater Bushenyi, Uganda through the cross sectional research design. The ... -
COVID-19 Anxiety and Associated Factors among Finalist Undergraduate Science Teachers
(Interdisciplinary Journal of Sociality Studies, 2021)The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic inflicted excruciating psychological problems and elevated social concerns globally, including anxiety among university students. This study assessed the prevalence and factors associated ... -
Alcohol Consumption and its Socio-demographic Correlates among Secondary School Teachers in Uganda
(Interdisciplinary Journal of Sociality Studies, 2021)Alcohol consumption among teachers is becoming an issue of concern in Uganda. Markedly, alcohol consumption among teachers varies by socio-demographic characteristics. This study establishes the relationship between ...
