Solomon Melesse Mengistie

• PhD in Curriculum Development MA in Curriculum and Instruction and BA in Pedagogics (Mathematics))
• Dean School of Educational Sciences at Bahir Dar University

The main purpose of this article is to examine the representation of some dimensions of ethnicity, nationality, religion, and economics in grade 10 civics and ethical education textbook, which was published in 2002 E.C and revised in 2004 E.C. The study used analysis is civic and ethical education textbook of grade-10 using content analysis as a re...

This study sought to examine the effect of the Science Process Skills-Based Teaching Approach (SPSBTA) on students' scientific epistemological beliefs (SEBs). The study used a mixed-method research approach with a quasi-experimental design. Two schools with relatively organized laboratories were selected and randomly assigned to experimental and co...

The process leading to the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been negatively influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The health crisis as a whole, and its substantial socio-economic impacts in particular, have led to many setbacks. These vary from the emerging of competing priorities, to restrictions in the availability...

Pro-environmental behaviour is imperative to promote sustainable management and consumption of energy in the fight against climate change. The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) has been widely used to explain and predict behaviour in a multitude of behavioural domains including pro-environmental behaviour. However, the TPB does not prioritise the i...

This study investigated the effects of multimedia and dynamic classroom integrated instruction (DCII) on students' academic achievement in two biology topics, i.e., respiration and photosynthesis. A non-equivalent, quasi-experimental design with a mixed research approach was employed. A total of 94 secondary school students participated in the stud...

This study aimed to examine faculty members' perceptions and practices regarding teachers' professional development in enhancing instructional quality at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia. To achieve this purpose, a qualitative research approach using a descriptive case study design was utilized. Data were collected from teachers, department heads...

This study aimed to examine the status of culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP) practices among upper primary school mathematics teachers in North Wollo Zone, Ethiopia. To achieve this purpose, the researchers employed a mixed-methods convergent research design. The participants included teachers, students, principals, and department heads. Data wer...

This study examined the effect of transactional leadership behaviors on research productivity in public universities, with organizational learning capability serving as a mediating factor. A quantitative research approach focusing on correlational design was utilized. Data were collected through a survey questionnaire administered to 519 respondent...

This study examined the professional practice competence (PPC) of primary school physical education (PE) teachers. Participants of the study were 382 availably selected primary school PE teachers in Amhara Region, in Ethiopia. Results revealed that, except for their lesson planning (LP), PE teachers' instructional assessment (IA); their ability to...

While computer animations have the potential to assist learners in understanding difficult concepts and eliminating misconceptions, studies supporting this claim are scarce. This study investigated how the 7E instructional model integrated with computer animations affected students' conceptual understanding and misconceptions about food making and...

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The study aimed to investigate the effect of computer simulation and animation-integrated instruction on pre-service science teacher trainees' conceptual understanding and retention of acid-base chemistry and stoichiometry. A quantitative approach with a pretest-posttest-delayed test quasi-experimental design was used. In the study area, there were...

This study aimed at investigating the quality statuses of graduates’ sustainable core competences development and the causes behind the identified competence statuses by applying the core competencies’ model. The study employed case study design with thematic analysis involving seven interviewees. This study used tracer study findings and national...

This systematic review aims to provide evidence-based literature on the impacts of technology-based instruction on students’ academic achievements, attitude, and recalling capacity. The review was made based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) review methodology. To achieve this aim, 583 prior studies from 201...

The purpose of this mixed methods sequential explanatory study was to determine the contributions of school climate dimensions (institutional level determinants) and in-service teacher professional identity elements (individual level determinants) on in-service teachers’ professional capital (human, social and decisional capital) development in pri...

The study was aimed at examining the status of research productivity and exploring the factors behind the identified status in Ethiopian universities from SDT and RBVT perspectives. In phase I, a null hypothesis was tested using a one-sample t-test at 0.05 alphas while in phase II one RQ was solved using qualitative analysis. The sample involved 53...

This study determined how chemistry instruction using technology affected student achievement and retention. To achieve the goal of the study, Solomon’s four-group quasi-experimental research design was used. The one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and independent sample t-test were used to statistically examine the data. A one-way ANOVA analy...

This study was aimed at identifying prospective teachers’ word utilization and improve their formal word selection and utilization in the Amharic language instructional process. This research was carried out in the Amharic Language Department of Debre Markos Teachers’ College. In doing this research, the researchers recorded the names of all the...

This study was aimed at identifying prospective teachers’ word utilization and improve their formal word selection and utilization in the Amharic language instructional process. This research was carried out in the Amharic Language Department of Debre Markos Teachers’ College. In doing this research, the researchers recorded the names of all the pa...

This study aims to assess the status of Science Process skill contents in the Ethiopian grade nine biology textbooks. It evaluates the inclusion of basic and integrated science process skills (SPS) involved in scientific inquiry using the eleven Science Process Skills indicators. After having accessed the Ethiopian grade nine biology textbook from...

This study evaluates the experimental tasks of the Ethiopian grade 12 chemistry textbook vis-à-vis coverage of the essential components of science process skills (SPSs) using content analysis. All the procedures in an experiment were analyzed using rubrics of the inquiry-based task analysis inventory (ITAI) instrument. This instrument was based on...

In improving the quality of education, parents' involvement is very significant. Parents' involvement is one of the three responsibilities for realizing the best quality. This study attempts to explore parents' involvement in education activities for improving their children's academic achievement. A sample of 292 households was selected from whose...

This study investigated the causes of Ethiopian teachers' professional misconduct in secondary schools. The researchers employed a descriptive survey design with quantitative and qualitative approaches and collected the data from 404 teachers, ten principals, and five district education office experts via questionnaires and interviews. The research...

This study investigated the effectiveness of student-centered instruction on eighth-grade students' conceptual understanding of photosynthesis. The study employed a Quasi-experimental research method. The data collection instruments included were multiple-choice tests, observations, and an informal assessment. The pretest and posttest were administ...

This study investigated the inclusion of indigenous knowledge (IK) in the Amhara Region's new primary and middle school textbooks in a trial. For this purpose, book reviews of the three purposely selected primary and middle school textbooks were made. Besides, data were collected from 372 teachers and interviews were also made with 28 sample teache...

This study explored the status of primary and middle school physical education (PE) teachers' professional knowledge competence (PKC) in the Amhara Region, in Ethiopia. For this, a quantitative research approach was employed and data were collected from 382 randomly selected PE teachers and analyzed quantitatively. Findings revealed that the overal...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the status of curriculum development and implementation practices in the Ethiopian education system through the lens of Schwab’s Signs of Crisis in the Curriculum Field. In 1969, Schwab identified three important ideas about the curriculum field in the American education system. First, he notified that the c...

This study aims to offer a contextual framework for a virtual reality learning environment (VRLE) that would assist in interpreting students' and tea-chers' expectations on how to use VR in the learning process. Due to the current lack of unified recommendations and principles, as well as framework methods, the structure of VRLE, consisting of 4, p...

The purpose of this study was to check the alignment between the new grade seven general science textbook prepared by the Amhara National Regional State Education Bureau (ANRSEB) and the respective national syllabus. To this end, purposive sampling and quantitative research approaches were used to see the alignments of students' learning outcome...

Brain-Based Learning (BBL) is an educational theoretical framework based on principles that derive from important findings about the structure and function of the brain through biology, psychology, and neuroscientific research, and forms a holistic context for a comprehensive instructional approach design. In the present study, a teaching intervent...

Characterizing a critically-thinker second language learner as well as the way such characteristics can be developed and implemented in instructed second language have received momentum in applied linguistics. As a novel practice, this mixed-methods study was designed to feature a critically-thinker reader in developing both her critical thinking a...

The main aim of this research is to determine the types of homework assigned in the 5 th grade Science and Technology course at public primary schools in Northern Cyprus and to explore the opinion of the teachers regarding homework practices. A qualitative case study design was used. The research was conducted during the 2018-2019 school year. The...

As its number of users increases, TikTok needs to focus on user retention. One such effort involves answering educational needs through social media. The purpose of this study is to analyze the factors affecting the continuance intention of TikTok users to obtain higher educational content. Data from this study were collected through online questio...

Although WhatsApp has become so ubiquitous and widespread across the globe, it poses a risk of abuse and cyberbullying to vulnerable groups of people like intellectually disabled learners. This study explores intellectually disabled lear-ners' experiences of using WhatsApp during an intervention programme in a special needs unit at a school in Cape...

The study was conducted on "Awramba" Community who are living in "Amhara" region, south "Gondor" Zone, Ethiopia. The general objective of this study was to capture an understanding of sense of community in "Awramba" community. The study tried to answer the following questions: How the community was established? What are the criteria to be part of t...

The objective of this study was to examine the theory-practice gap in implementing DI. To this end, a mixed research design was used. The data sources were TVET teachers, college Deans, and the regional TVED experts in Bahir Dar city. Questionnaire, FGD, and document analysis were used to gather data. Then statistical tools including percentage, me...

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This study investigated the key barriers to research-knowledge sharing (RKS) that influence research-knowledge-sharing practices among academics and the influence of top academic leaders on academics' research-knowledge-sharing behavior. It attempted to explore the nature of sharing research knowledge in HEIs in general and to examine the lived exp...

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This study examined the contribution of teachers’ engagement in collaborative professional learning, engagement in individualized professional learning, and job satisfaction to their professional capital development using structural equation modeling. The study tested three hypotheses: teachers’ level of engagement in collaborative professional lea...

This study examined the contribution of teachers’ engagement in collaborative professional learning, engagement in individualized professional learning, and job satisfaction to their professional capital development using structural equation modeling. The study tested three hypotheses: teachers’ level of engagement in collaborative professional l...

The purpose of this paper was to review practitioners’ conception and involvement in the curriculum development and implementation process. Different empirical works done in Ethiopia and reflections of lived experiences of the researchers were used as sources of this review. The results revealed that the dominant curriculum conceptualization of the...

The main objective of this study was to explore the practice of traditional church education specifically Zema-Bet education in the three selected Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido churches found in Bahir Dar city. In doing so, a mixed-method research approach with the convergent parallel design was employed. To achieve the purpose of the study, all the...

The purpose of this paper was to review practitioners’ conception and involvement in the curriculum development and implementation process. Different empirical works are done in Ethiopia and reflections of’ lived experiences of the researchers were used as sources of this review. The results revealed that the dominant curriculum conceptualizati...

The study was aimed at examining high school teachers’ engagement in doing action research in Bahir Dar City. The study further checked the current status of high school teachers’ engagement in conducting educational action research, the principals' role in facilitating action research in schools, the challenges that hinder teachers’ engagement...

This research focused on grade three Textbook of the Amara National Regional State Education Bureau, published in 2015 (2007 Eth. C) and aimed at content selection and integration with other learning. The evaluation concerns content selection in terms of dimensions of the learner (age, level of learning, and culture) and arts integration with other...

The objective of this study is to enhance students’ understanding of solving linear equation with one variable through teaching using balancing model. To achieve this research objective, design-based research approach was chosen. The target population of the study was grade five students and their mathematics teacher. From this population, the p...

The purpose of this study was to examine teacher educators’ self-efficacy and perceived practices of differentiated instruction in Ethiopian primary teacher education programs. To this end, a mixed research approach was employed. As research participant, 400 instructors who had been teaching in teacher education colleges of Amhara regional stat...

The purpose of this study was to examine teacher educators’ self-efficacy and perceived practices of differentiated instruction in Ethiopian primary teacher education programs. To this end, a mixed research approach was employed. As research participant, 400 instructors who had been teaching in teacher education colleges of Amhara regional state we...

The main purpose of this article is to investigate teachers' beliefs in values-education by considering secondary schools. To this end, a qualitative case study design was employed. Data were collected from teachers, principals, and students, mainly through semi-structured interviews. Interview reports were then presented in vignette form and analy...

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the challenges in teachers' practices of moral values-education in secondary schools. To achieve this purpose, a descriptive case study design was employed. The data was collected from students, teachers, and principals, mainly through semi-structured interviews. Based on this, interpretational...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the status of curriculum development and implementation in the Ethiopian education system against Schwab’s Signs of Crisis in the Curriculum Field. Education policy documents of the Ministry of Ethiopia, different research journals and experiences of the researchers were the major data sources in this study...

The main purpose of this study was to invigorate teachers’ perception and implementation of constructivist learning approaches in the Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion design (EiTEX, hereinafter), Bahir Dar University. The study focused on mostly noted constructivist learning and teaching methods particularly question-answer, individual-wo...

Building Teachers' Professional Capital @ Primary Schools through Positive School Climate & Professional Identities<br

Building Teachers' Professional Capital @ Primary Schools through Positive School Climate & Professional Identities<br

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The purpose of this review was to outline the history of Ethiopian education from ancient time’s right through to the present day. It is generally noted that Ethiopia has a long history of its own writing system, calendar, art, music, numeration, and poetic systems. The nation is also known for the existence of the culturally diversified ethnic gro...

True national or international development is possible if and only if males and females get ample opportunity to exercise their true potentiality to the fullest possible. To this end, the education system in general and schools in particular play a great role .That is, the education systems can positively contribute to the construction of gender, i...

This study examined the direct and indirect influences of school leadership, institutional safety and professional learning and teaching climate on in-service teachers’ human capital development. To this purpose, correlational design with structural equation modeling was employed. The data were collected from 379 randomly selected in-service teache...

This study sought to devise a reliable and validated measurement scale to evaluate teachers’ perceptions of school climate. The study sample consisted of 379 teachers working in Awi district public primary schools, Ethiopia. Measurement scale had five latent factors (school climate dimensions) and 26 indicators (items). The coefficient alpha values...

Abstract This article examines curriculum conceptualization, development, and implementation in the Ethiopian education system against the perspectives of notable progressive curriculum theories. To this end, the Ethiopian education policy and curriculum documents were reviewed against progressive curriculum orientations stemmed from Beauchamp, Pin...

education system in general and schools in particular play a great role That is, the education systems can positively contribute to the construction of gender, including by selecting curricula that are not gender stereotyped, encouraging both males and females to enter all fields, and having men and women in leadership roles. At a school level, cla...

Quality in education is an amorphous term where no two people can exactly communicate. However, there is a growing trend that quality should be viewed in terms of learning improvement. Thus, this study intends to examine the status of students’ problem solving skill in mathematics. Particularly, this study aims at measuring grades 9 and 10 students...

This paper examines curriculum conceptualization and development process in the Ethiopian education system against the perspectives of the notable progressive curriculum theories. To this purpose, the Ethiopian educational policy and curriculum documents are reviewed against progressive curriculum orientations stemmed from Beauchamp, Pinar and McNe...

This study focuses on high school students’ perceptions of cooperative problem-solving learning in mathematics classrooms. Case study was chosen as a research design in this study. Participants of this study were grade 11 students of Dangila preparatory high school in Awi-zone, Ethiopia. The number of participants was 105. The data were collected u...

The purpose of this study was to assess practitioners' perceived involvement and challenges they encountered in the process of curriculum development in Secondary schools of Amhara Sayintworeda. Mixed research design was employed to provide answer to the basic questions of this research. The sample consisted of 125 secondary school teachers, 3 scho...

The purpose of this article was to explore some valuable lessons and experiences that have relevance for the field of education and its professionals. Thus, a critical analysis and reflection is made on some selected issues that were addressed in Thomas Kuhn's book entitled The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Based on these analyses and reflec...

The aim of this paper is to compare and contrast the cooperative problem-solving strategy and the conventional technique and study their effects on mathematics performance. Various investigations have indicated that students experience mathematics anxiety which is an inclination of pressure and dread that meddles with mathematics learning. This mig...

This study aimed to describe how balancing model can support students' understanding of linear equations with one variable. This article is a part of a larger study on learning design of linear equations with one variable using algebra tiles combined with balancing model. To achieve this research objective, design-based research approach was chosen...

The present study focuses on critical analysis of diversity inclusion strategies reflected in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopian constitution adopted in 1995. Specifically, the main intent of the study was to examine whether or not the constitution addresses diversity issues in the country. Hence, the study tried to explore the inclusion...

This study examined the effects of language teaching strategies on children's phonemic awareness reading performance at Kosober Primary School, Awi, AmharaNational Regional State, Ethiopia. Thus, one hundred and two grade one children of two intact sections (n=50) and (n=52) were selected as experimental and control groups respectively and particip...

This study explored primary school teachers’ knowledge, attitude and practice of differentiated instruction. The target population of this study was primary school (Grades 1-4) teachers of the Amhara Region who were attending summer in-service diploma level training at Debre Markos College of Teacher Education in 2017 academic year. To this end, qu...

The purpose of this study was to assess practitioners’ perceived involvement and challenges they encountered in the process of curriculum development in Secondary schools of Amhara Sayintworeda. Mixed research design was employed to provide answer to the basic questions of this research. The sample consisted of 125 secondary school teachers, 3 scho...

This study was designed to examine the contribution of placement school experiences to prospective teachers’ multicultural competence development in Ethiopia. The major sources of data were prospective teachers of the three randomly selected Teacher Education Institutes who took their placement school experiences at the respective secondary schools...

This study was designed to examine the contribution of placement school experiences to prospective teachers’ multicultural competence development in Ethiopia. The major sources of data were prospective teachers of the three randomly selected Teacher Education Institutes who took their placement school experiences at the respective secondary schools...

The purpose of this study was to look into students' higher-level reasoning skills in a high school mathematics class through cooperative problem-solving learning activities. The participants were fifty-five students in the experimental group and fifty-five students in the control group. The study included a pretest to find out students' reasoning...

Ethiopia, with its diversified cultural groups, has its own distinctive calendar, writing, art, music, poetic forms and numeration system (Alemayehu & Solomon, 2017). This seems to have laid a foundation to establish traditional education for the purpose of transmitting these cultural heritages to the next generation. In addition, the introduction...

This paper invigorates curriculum conceptualization and its development in the current Ethiopian education system in relation to renowned classical curriculum theories. In doing so, the whole policy and curriculum documents are reviewed vis-à-vis Beauchamp, Pinar, and McNeil's classifications of curriculum theories. In this regard, we feel that the...

This study focuses on high school students' perceptions of cooperative problem-solving learning in mathematics classrooms. Case study was chosen as a research design in this study. Participants of this study were grade 11 students of Dangila preparatory high school in Awi-zone, Ethiopia. The number of participants was 105. The data were collected u...

The study is aimed at analyzing Ethiopian inclusive education strategy document whether it contextualizes about responsive learning environment for practicing inclusive higher education system. The study has employed case study design and descriptive method basing qualitative research approach so as to describe whether promising way outs of practic...

This study was designed to assess the state of educational media resources integrated into the Ethiopian education system. The study was conducted at relevant agencies of the MoE (ICDR, EMA, Region Three and Region Two, where curriculum experts and media personnel were purposively selected). One hundred primary schools were also selected randomly f...

The present study tries to investigate the contribution of primary school teachers’ peer- and selfassessment for effective implementation of active learning in their actual classrooms. In this study, areas in which self-reflection and peer assessment include three broad categories, such as methods of teaching and learning, instructional resource ut...

This study examined the extent to which the issue of multiculturalism is infused into the pedagogy of Universities in Ethiopia.Seven hundred thirty seven instructors and students were selected using random sampling technique from the five universities of Ethiopia. A structured questionnaire, FGD and an unstructured interview were used as data colle...

Using the Social Reconstructionist educational philosophy as a theoretical framework, this study attempts to understand the place of society and major societal issues in the current Education and Training Policy of Ethiopia. To achieve this purpose, an analysis was made both on the manifest and latent contents of the whole policy document. The anal...

In this paper, an attempt is made to disclose the state of philosophy and the nature of curriculum development in Higher Learning Institutes (hereafter HLIs) of Ethiopia. This paper also tries to reflect on the existing literature on the different views of authorities about the forms, values, and assumptions of using modules in HLI programs. Lastly...

This study examined the extent to which the issue of multiculturalism is infused into the environments of Universities in Ethiopia. Four hundred forty-four instructors and students were selected using ran-dom sampling technique from the five universities. A structured questionnaire and an unstructured in-terview were used as data collecting instrum...

The purpose of this study was to investigate teachers’ perceptions and practices of constructivist teaching approach, assess the extent to which teachers’ perceptions influence their practices and identify factors affecting approach in Kamashi Zone, Benishangul Gumuz Regional State. To conduct the study, descriptive survey design was employed. A to...

This study examined the effects of strategies on children’s phonic reading performance at Kosober Primary School, Injibara, Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia. For this purpose, one hundred grade one children of two sections of intact classrooms (n=50) and (n=52) were selected as experimental and control groups respectively and participated i...

This study investigated the type and level of desired and actual help given to student-teachers from the respective cooperative teachers. The areas help was desired by student-teachers include teaching the curriculum subjects, classroom management, and feedback on their teaching and school environment information. The study was carried out on educa...

Cognizant of the decisive role education plays to speed up the overall socio-economic progress of the country, the government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has given a high priority to education in its strategy of capacity building and economic development. Since the issuance of the Education and Training Policy, efforts have been...

This study aimed at examining the instructors‟ stages of concern and levels of use of active learning strategies. Seventy-nine instructors who participated in Higher Diploma Program in three higher learning institutes found in the Amhara region were taken as data sources. Questionnaire adapted from SoCQ was employed. In addition, panel and informal...

The present study aims at investigating the tension between Keyword methods of teaching to root analysis in teaching EFL students’ vocabulary recalling. Since the design of the study is quasi-experimental, pre-test and post-test, two intact groups that comprised a total of 80 students participated in the study. Grade 11 section ‘C’ Students (n=40)...

This study was designed to examine the support rendered from teacher education policies to prospective teachers’ multicultural competence development in Ethiopia. The major sources of data were basic policy documents (i.e., National Constitution, Higher Education Proclamation, Education and Training Policy, and Strategic Plan Documents) related to...

This study was designed to examine the contribution of teacher educators' multicultural competence to prospective teachers’ multicultural competence development in Ethiopia. The major sources of data were teacher educators of the three randomly selected Teacher Education Institutes in Ethiopia. Forty-five teacher educators were selected from eighty...

This study was designed to assess Bahir Dar Preparatory School teachers‟ state of formulating and utilizing of instructional objectives. In an attempt to realize this research objective, 54 teachers of Bahir Dar Preparation School were taken as a target population. Out of these, 13 teachers were selected using random sampling technique from the lis...