Kizito Ndihokubwayo

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Publishing Editor at Parabolum Publishing Corp

The data presented in this paper is related to Mathematics and Science lesson plans collected from Rwandan teachers. They were collected and analyzed to support researchers and teachers using the validated and reliable lesson plan analysis protocol (LPAP) and analyzing its data. We collected and analyzed 119 lesson plans from 26 Mathematics and Sci...

Lesson planning is important in an educational setting. This study assessed how Rwandan tutors and teachers prepare lesson plans (LPs) before implementing them in a classroom. We employed a current and standard lesson plan analysis protocol (LPAP) developed by researchers from Rwanda to code data. We collected a representative sample of 119 mathema...

Lesson planning is important in an educational setting. This study assessed how Rwandan tutors and teachers prepare lesson plans (LPs) before implementing them in a classroom. We employed a current and standard lesson plan analysis protocol (LPAP) developed by researchers from Rwanda to code data. We collected a representative sample of 119 mathema...

This research explored the impact of using ChatGPT, a chatbot-assisted artificial intelligence (AI), on students’ interest and conceptual understanding of atomic structure and chemical bonding. A total of 92 senior and two secondary students, including 61 male and 31 female students from Rwanda, were randomly selected to participate in the study. T...

The government of Rwanda set its development agenda with a focus on transforming the country from a predominantly agrarian to a knowledge-based and service-driven economy by the year 2020. The role of WDA in strengthening linkages between education and employment is imperative for sustainable economic development. However, the relationship between...

This scientometric study explores the integration of information technologies into physics education within the African context, addressing five primary research questions. The research methodology employed a multi-faceted data collection approach, utilizing AI models. ChatGPT was used to search possible derivative keywords, Web of Science, Scilit....

A policy brief is a concise document that summarizes a policy issue, provides analysis and offers specific recommendations to policymakers and decision-makers. Its purpose is to inform and influence policy decisions by providing evidence-based arguments and practical suggestions for addressing a particular problem or achieving a desired outcome. Po...

Teachers teach more effectively when they are constantly updating their subject content knowledge and pedagogy as well as technology. This requires Continuous Professional Development (CPD) training programmes in order to cope with changing world in terms of nature of science, skills and technology. Therefore, the current study sought to demonstrat...

Students understand math and science lessons better when innovative teaching resources are used. To implement a variety of teaching strategies and methods, teachers must be aware of and familiar with various innovative and effective pedagogical knowledge and skills. Some students, on the other hand, believe that math and science are difficult subje...

The present study explored the issues related to subject combinations choice at advanced level secondary schools in Rwanda. Three schools with various subject combinations were conveniently selected from three districts in Rwanda. Two hundred and thirty-eight participants, including 211 students (grade 10 to 12), three director of studies (DOS), an...

This study aims at checking college student-teachers’ transferability ideas from physics laboratory activities to improvised materials. We employed undergraduate students from the University of Rwanda College of Education to carry it out during their laboratory experiments session. Since these students are future secondary teachers, we first observ...

Studying perceptions of stakeholders and beneficiaries is important in framing the system and improving the outcome. This study sought to appraise the perceptions of graduates and TVET school managers vis-à-vis the Industrial-Based Training (IBT) in use in TVET schools in Rwanda. A mixed method was used, and data were collected from both graduates...

This study aims to understand the use of metacognitive skills by Rwandan learners while solving mathematical word problems. We interviewed and assessed third-, fourth- and fifth-grade learners from a public primary school. The following three points emerged. First, the metacognitive skills of learners with correct answers were considerably higher t...

Science teaching in general and physics teaching in particular often fail to meet the challenges of motivating and engaging learners. Consequently, students do not adequately understand concepts, leading to the poor acquisition of expected practical skills. In response to this need, we conducted a study to document physics teachers’ instructional p...

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 data from 251 grade 11 (senior 5) students using our Light Phenomena Conceptual Assessment (LPCA) tool and from 136 grade 10 (senio...

The present study explored the issues related to subject combinations choice at advanced level secondary schools in Rwanda. Three schools with various subject combinations were conveniently selected from three districts in Rwanda. Two hundred and thirty-eight participants, including 211 students (grade 10 to 12), three director of studies (DOS), an...

This study assesses the level of application of the 5E’s educational model by Rwandan physics teachers and how the model affects the learning of basic classical mechanics in secondary school physics classrooms. For this analysis, quantitative data were collected using the classroom observation tool framed at the 5E’s educational model. A sample of...

In improving learning outcomes in education, we found a gap in available standard protocols to analyze peda-gogical documents such as lesson plans. This study is a product of validated and reliable Lesson Plan Analysis Protocol (LPAP) supporting education stakeholders to get insight into the lesson plans (LPs) used in schools. The LPAP was found to...

Science education requires observation to internalize the fundamental scientific concepts. One tool among the responsible for observing nature is the science laboratory. However, there is a scarcity of laboratories in many schools, especially in developing countries, and most of the science teachers in those schools lack the skills for improvising...

In this study, we used a research tool for measuring students’ conceptual understanding in optics, the Geometrical Optics Conceptual Understanding Test-2 (GOCUT-2), to evaluate the impact of supplementing classroom instruction with laboratory experiments, PhET simulations, or YouTube videos. This study involved students from public, urban secondary...

The current work explores the secondary school teachers’ and students’ perception on web-based discussions in teaching and learning and its potentiality to enhance students’ performance in organic chemistry. A mixed approaches typically interviews and achievement tests were applied for collecting qualitative and quantitative data respectively for t...

This paper presents the findings of a descriptive survey research that investigated what makes students dislike Mathematics and seeks potentially effective Mathematics teaching practices, to boost their interest. The study involved 94 participants, including 60 lower-level secondary school students and 34 Mathematics teachers from 5 schools in Karo...

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 data from 251 grade 11 (senior 5) students using our Light Phenomena Conceptual Assessment (LPCA) tool and from 136 grade 10 (senio...

This paper presents the findings of a descriptive survey research that investigated what makes students dislike Mathematics and seeks potentially effective Mathematics teaching practices, to boost their interest. The study involved 94 participants, including 60 lower-level secondary school students and 34 Mathematics teachers from 5 schools in Karo...

Classroom observation has played a role in documenting classroom practices to improve teaching and learning outcomes. This dataset allows teachers, researchers, and educational policymakers to reanalyze it depending on the interest variables and understand Rwanda's current physics education. The data was collected among qualified teachers from sele...

This paper intends to explore mathematics teachers' behaviours in Rwanda

Mechanics, as a large part of physics, shows the most basic concepts we encounter in our daily lives. With this regard, we implemented the mechanics baseline test (MBT) to the University of Rwanda-College of Education before and after the teaching mechanics module to track students learning. About 38 students participated in this study. We found th...

In Rwanda, the education sector involves many stakeholders and partners. One pillar in its monitoring and evaluation is constituted by sector education officers (SEOs). These SEOs monitor the implementation of a competence-based curriculum (CBC) to respond to beneficiaries. However, there is a lack of documentation that fulfils this need. Therefore...

Lesson planning is a crucial roadmap guiding the teacher before the implementation of the lesson. In the current study, we aimed at reviewing pedagogical documents used by Rwandan physics teachers. We gathered 32 lesson plans related to optics topics from five teachers and analyzed them using the lesson plan analysis protocol (LPAP) and lesson plan...

Although many universities offer Doctoral programs by research in the field of education, students' preparation to conduct doctoral research has remained uncertain. This paper reports the knowledge and skills of doctorate students of one college of the University of Rwanda acquired during their initial training on academic and scientific writing in...

Information Communication Technology (ICT) is becoming valuable tools to help improve education, especially during teaching and learning of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) subjects. In this regard, we conducted this study to explore the usability of ICT tools in Physics taught courses. To collect data, we used classroom obs...

Geometric Optics Conceptual Understanding Test (GOCUT) Pre-Post Test This test contains questions revealing the conceptual understanding of geometric optics. This 25 question-item multiple-choice test is expected to be accomplished within one period of 40 minutes, and it is designed to senior-4 students who are taking Physics courses based on the c...

Effective teaching of physics requires the use of well-designed and diversified instructional tools such as multimedia throughout the teaching and learning process. The main objective of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of Physics Educational Technology (PhET) simulations and YouTube videos to improve the learning of optics in Rwanda...

It is natural for students to expect appropriate behaviours from their teachers. Not only students but also every human being appreciates care from surrounding individuals. Within the classroom, students can feel less motivated to take part in the learning of the given course with the teacher who has offensive behaviours. The purpose of this study...

We have developed a lesson plan analysis protocol (LPAP) to cater to this problem. This protocol will serve as a guideline (checklist) for teachers and tools for policymakers, education evaluators, developmental partners, and researchers. The LPAP has 27 items (see Table 1) within nine groups with different grading or ranking style in four categori...

Light has the most interesting phenomena among physics concepts. We designed the light phenomena conceptual assessment (LPCA) to help teachers measure their students’ conceptual understanding of light phenomena. We expected to measure increases in student understanding of light phenomena after learning about the wave and particle nature of light in...

Effective teaching and learning of mathematics are vital not only for examination or assessment purposes but also for empowering learners to live in a modern age of science, mathematics, and engineering and enable them to role-play to the social and economic development of the developing countries and the whole world as well. This study reveals ins...

It is natural for students to expect appropriate behaviours from their teachers. Not only students but also every human being appreciates care from surrounding individuals. Within the classroom, students can feel less motivated to take part in the learning of the given course with the teacher who has offensive behaviours. The purpose of this study...

Effective teaching and learning of mathematics are vital not only for examination or assessment purposes but also for empowering learners to live in a modern age of science, mathematics, and engineering and enable them to role-play to the social and economic development of the developing countries and the whole world as well. This study reveals ins...

This research intends to explore the training strategies used by competence-based curriculum trainers during the training of future primary school teachers, teacher training college (TTC) tutors, and TTC demonstration schools' teachers that took place from December 2018 to January 2019 in Rwanda. The researchers visited two training sites and obser...

This research intends to explore the training strategies used by competence-based curriculum trainers during the training of future primary school teachers, teacher training college (TTC) tutors, and TTC demonstration schools' teachers that took place from December 2018 to January 2019 in Rwanda. The researchers visited two training sites and obser...

The aim of the present study is to reveal teachers’ role in teaching and learners’ responsibility in learning Science and Elementary Technology in Rwanda. The source of information is the classroom observation (Upper Primary) from 6 schools purposively selected in Kayonza District. The Flanders Interaction Analysis Categories System analysis resear...

Science education in Rwandan schools still faces a number of challenges including the lack or shortage of equipment available for science experiments. This paper describes research conducted to assess the impact of using improvised versus conventional laboratory equipment in experiments. Eighty-five lower secondary school students were assessed usi...

Redistributing some public institutions to rural areas and developing secondary cities to support the capital city of Rwanda, Kigali, constitutes governmental policies. This paper identifies the opportunities and challenges of redistributing the University of Rwanda College of Education (UR-CE) to Rukara. The study used a mixed method involving 61...

The paper aimed at revealing lightning myths and traditional beliefs among Rwandans. It provides an overview of their feelings, opinions, and worries as well as facts on thunderstorms using summative-written text and focus-group discussion where about 315 people participated in this research. The conception of the thunder in Rwandan culture was fou...

This study is investigating the student-teachers' conception of static electricity in Rwandan teacher training colleges. The study used a pre-and post-intervention design, where two groups of students were randomly assigned in two groups. Along a period of four weeks, one group was taught using the traditional method (TRAD) while another using impr...

The aim of this study is to measure the impact of Field trip in improving academic achievement and developing the interest of learners in learning entrepreneurship. The study accommodated 100 students from Groupe Scholaire Nyagahandagaza. It used quasi-experimental and qualitative approaches where two seniors in classes one were assigned to the con...

This study investigates the competence-based curriculum (CBC) issues hindering its implementation. To collect data, the study surveyed 731 primary and secondary school teachers around Rwanda at the time they were in their third phase of CBC assessment training. These teachers are sector-based trainers (SBTs) whom after getting training, are suppose...

Rwanda embarked on a new curriculum based-competences in 2015. It is in this regards the Rwanda Education Board has continuously trained its counterparts in all areas of education. The present study intends to describe how teachers' training college leavers' support and are ready to implement this curriculum towards their students' career teaching....

The literature review showed the relationship with the lesson study with other practices such as CPD, SBI through Peer learning altogether contributing to the implementation of Rwandan CBC. Lesson study practices showed tremendous successes, however, lack of the time for doing the steps of lesson study, lack of the teaching materials to accommodate...

The present study aimed at analyzing the goodness of competence-based curriculum and usability of textbooks related to this curriculum. It accommodated a sample of 44 national teachers’ trainers (NTs) on Rwandan new competence-based curriculum. The study accommodated a mixed research design where inferential statistics was used and qualitative data...

The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which the making and use of improvised experiment materials contribute to students' achievement in Physics. The study used experimental research design and involved students from two Teacher Training Colleges in Rwanda. To conduct this study, a pre-test was given to students. Then, two groups w...

This study aims at investigating the barriers encountered by science teachers in laboratory activities in Rwandan teacher training colleges (TTCs) using questionnaires and interviews. The results confirmed that teachers face barriers like time limitation, material scarcity and lack of improvising skills in their everyday science teaching life. Abou...

Transforming Rwandan citizens into skilled human capital for socio-economic development is the mission of Ministry of education (MINEDUC) in Rwanda. Since twelve years basic education policy in 2012 was implemented, not only teachers but also teaching materials became scarce. If science teachers are not enough, if science laboratories are insuffici...