Browsing by Author "Akello, Lucy Dora"

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    • Factors Influencing Tutors’ Use of ICT: a Case Study of Mukuju Core Primary Teachers’ College 

      Ogot, Alfred Joe; Akello, Lucy Dora (African Journals Online, 2010)
      This study examined the factors influencing the integration of ICTs in teaching/learning at Mukuju Core Primary Teachers’ College. Data were collected from staff and students at the College—using questionnaires and focus ...

    • Formative Assessment: The Role of Participatory Action Research in Blending Policy and Practice in Uganda 

      Akello, Lucy Dora; Timmerman, Greetje M. C. (2018)
      This paper documents teachers’ assessment practices and pupils’ learning to read and write in large classes. To gain insights into the assessment practices and pupils’ learning, the principles of Vygotsky’s zone of proximal ...

    • Local Language a Medium of Instruction: Challenges and Way Forward 

      Akello, Lucy Dora; Timmerman, Greetje M. C. (2018)
      The paper reports on a participatory action research study conducted in six rural primary schools in Uganda in 2013 to establish why children taught in the local language had difficulties in reading and writing. Findings ...

    • Overcoming Poverty: Accounting for Stagnation and Upward Mobility in Central Uganda 

      Ssempebwa, Jude; Ndagire, Abisagi Kasoma; Kule, Abraham; Ssekyewa, Charles; Nnyanzi, David; Kisolo, Gelvan; Nyende, Jeremiah; Masereka, Joseph; Nambuubi, Juliet; Otaala, Laura; Akello, Lucy Dora; Odong, Moses; Okullo, Nellie Florence; Kanyandago, Peter; Lugemwa, Peter; Ouma, Richard; Akabwai, Steven (Kisubi Brothers University College, 2012)
      Poverty in Uganda has been the subject of extensive scholarship and policy attention. Subsequently, several poverty alleviation programmes/ projects have been implemented in the country over the last five decades. ...