VENANCE A. TIMOTHY

Lecturer, Dar Es Salaam University College Of Education

Education:

Ph.D (Learning Sciences) Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany

Teaching:

• Physics and Science Education

Research:

• Learning and Instruction
• Investigating the effect of an instructional approach on enhancing pre-service teachers’ diagnostic competence through an intervention
• Fostering the development of diagnostic competences in Teacher and Medical Education

Projects:

• Coordinating a project known as  "Can attachment of pre-service Science and mathematics teachers to secondary schools promote their competence- based teaching skills?"

Publications:

1. Facilitating diagnsostic competences in higher education: A Meta-Analysis in Medical and Teacher Education (Paper pubished online 03 July 2019 – Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-019-09492-2)
2. Facilitating diagnsostic competences by being told, seeing examples or solving a problem? A Meta-Analysis (Paper – presented at EARLI conference 2017)
3. Enhancing Pre-service Teachers Diagnostic Competence: Effects of Example-Based and Problem Solving Instructional Approaches (Poster – presented at EARLI conference 2019)