David Baidoo-Anu
Biographic Data
| ID | 1303127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Baidoo-Anu |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Baidoo-Anu |
| SIGNATURE | BAIDOO-ANU D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4628-3459 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Do students perceive assessment differently? Exploring the diverse ways students conceive assessment and its impact on their assessment experiences and engagement
This study is part of a larger dissertation that examined the assessment culture within Ghana’s education system. This paper specifically investigates the diverse conceptions of assessment held by students and how these perceptions shape their learning-related behaviours and assessment experiences. In total, 405 junior high school (Grades 7–9) and senior high school (Grades 10–12) students responded to the Students’ Conceptions of Assessment Inve…
Understanding the diverse ways teachers approach classroom assessment in an examination-oriented educational system
Teacher candidates’ experiences of emergency remote assessment during Covid-19
Emergency remote teaching amid global distress
This study explored the emergency remote teaching experiences of Ghanaian teacher educators during COVID-19. The study employed a basic qualitative interpretive approach and purposively interviewed 25 teacher educators from 15 teacher training institutions. Teacher educators in this study reported that emergency remote teaching (ERT) was a learning opportunity and professional capacity-building experience for them to engage in contemporary pedago…
Education in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Education in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Since its maiden release into the public domain on November 30, 2022, ChatGPT garnered more than one million subscribers within a week. The generative AI tool ⎼ChatGPT took the world by surprise with it sophisticated capacity to carry out remarkably complex tasks. The extraordinary abilities of ChatGPT to perform complex tasks within the field of education has caused mixed feelings among educators, as this advancement in AI seems to revolutionize…
Digital divide in higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Teachers’ test construction competencies in examination-oriented educational system
This study explored the relationship between multiple choice test construction competence and the quality of multiple-choice tests among senior high school teachers in Ghana. In all, 157 teachers were selected from four senior high schools in the Kwahu-South District. Participants responded to self-designed questionnaire developed to assess teachers’ multiple-choice items construction competencies. A three-factor structure emanated from the explo…
Emergency remote assessment practices in higher education in sub-Saharan Africa during Covid-19
Following the disruptions to in-person schooling during COVID-19 and the need for emergency remote teaching, this study explored the assessment experiences of teacher educators in Ghana. Through a qualitative transcendental phenomenological approach, purposive criterion sampling was used to select 25 teacher educators from 15 teacher training institutions in Ghana who participated in online teaching during COVID-19 school closure. The findings sh…
Secondary school categorization in Ghana
Undergirded by the social identity theory and system justification theory, this study explored the impact of secondary school categorization on students schooling experiences. We employed transcendental phenomenological qualitative approach to understand students’ experiences in different categories. We interviewed (n = 20) students from three different school categories (A, B and C). This study provides an initial understanding into students liv…
Cultural validity
Drawing on a scoping-review methodology, this study aimed to map extant literature to conceptualize cultural validity in assessment. Three themes emerged from this review: (a) conceptualization of cultural validity, (b) promoting cultural validity in assessment, and (c) challenges to cultural validity in assessment. The review showed that culturally valid assessment ensures that assessment instruments and practices, assessment decision-making pro…
Towards classroom inclusivity
The study explored teachers’ awareness of classroom cultural diversity using a cross-sectional survey and thematic content document analysis of Ghana’s inclusive education policy and teacher professional development manuals to explore teachers’ cultural diversity awareness. 219 K-12 teachers completed the survey. The study found that teachers are culturally sensitive to working with culturally diverse families and the use of non-standard English.…
Examining School Principals' Conceptions of Assessment and Grading Practices
Principals play a key leadership role in school effectiveness and student success; however, one area that has received relatively little attention so far is principals’ embedded understanding of assessment and grading within the educational context where they work. We examined 141 Chinese school principals’ conceptions of assessment and grading practices using a survey research design. Our results indicated that principals viewed summative assess…
Conceptions of classroom assessment and approaches to grading
Classroom assessment and grading play central roles in education, with important impacts on teachers and students. This study examined the interactions between Canadian teachers’ and students’ conceptions of assessment and approaches to grading. 219 teachers and students completed a survey with two scales: Teachers’ Conceptions of Assessment (TCOA) and Teachers’ Approaches to Grading (TAG). Factor analysis of the TCOA scale showed four factors: a…
Performance-based accountability
Undergirded by “economic theory of the principal–agent problem”, the study investigated secondary school teachers’ perception of the influence of large-scale testing accountability on teaching and learning. Cross-sectional survey design was used. Simple random sampling was also employed to select 200 teachers for this study. The exploratory factor analysis results showed that although large-scale testing accountability serves as a motivational fa…
Personality Traits as Predictors of Self-Regulated Learning and Academic Engagement among College Students in Ghana
The study explored personality traits as they predicted self-regulated learning and academic engagement among college students in Ghana. A sample of 652 (return rate was 87.0%) was drawn from an accessible population of 17,396. Adapted versions of Taiwanese Short Self-Regulation Questionnaire (22 items; α = 0.84), University Student Engagement Inventory (15 items; α = 0.81), and Big-Five Personality Inventory (30 items; α = 0.70) were used for th…
Social challenges of adolescent secondary school students in Ghana
The study investigated the social challenges of adolescents in secondary schools in Ghana. A cross-sectional survey design was employed. Data were collected from 376 students from five public senior high schools within Cape Coast Metropolis via a multistage sampling procedure. The data were analysed using means, independent samples t-test and multiple linear regression. The results revealed that the most prevailing social challenges students expe…
Conceptions of classroom assessment and approaches to grading
Classroom assessment and grading play central roles in education, with important impacts on teachers and students. This study examined the interactions between Canadian teachers’ and students’ conceptions of assessment and approaches to grading. 219 teachers and students completed a survey with two scales: Teachers’ Conceptions of Assessment (TCOA) and Teachers’ Approaches to Grading (TAG). Factor analysis of the TCOA scale showed four factors: a…
Towards classroom inclusivity
The study explored teachers’ awareness of classroom cultural diversity using a cross-sectional survey and thematic content document analysis of Ghana’s inclusive education policy and teacher professional development manuals to explore teachers’ cultural diversity awareness. 219 K-12 teachers completed the survey. The study found that teachers are culturally sensitive to working with culturally diverse families and the use of non-standard English.…
Social challenges of adolescent secondary school students in Ghana
The study investigated the social challenges of adolescents in secondary schools in Ghana. A cross-sectional survey design was employed. Data were collected from 376 students from five public senior high schools within Cape Coast Metropolis via a multistage sampling procedure. The data were analysed using means, independent samples t-test and multiple linear regression. The results revealed that the most prevailing social challenges students expe…
Performance-based accountability
Undergirded by “economic theory of the principal–agent problem”, the study investigated secondary school teachers’ perception of the influence of large-scale testing accountability on teaching and learning. Cross-sectional survey design was used. Simple random sampling was also employed to select 200 teachers for this study. The exploratory factor analysis results showed that although large-scale testing accountability serves as a motivational fa…
Personality Traits as Predictors of Self-Regulated Learning and Academic Engagement among College Students in Ghana
The study explored personality traits as they predicted self-regulated learning and academic engagement among college students in Ghana. A sample of 652 (return rate was 87.0%) was drawn from an accessible population of 17,396. Adapted versions of Taiwanese Short Self-Regulation Questionnaire (22 items; α = 0.84), University Student Engagement Inventory (15 items; α = 0.81), and Big-Five Personality Inventory (30 items; α = 0.70) were used for th…
Education in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Education in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Since its maiden release into the public domain on November 30, 2022, ChatGPT garnered more than one million subscribers within a week. The generative AI tool ⎼ChatGPT took the world by surprise with it sophisticated capacity to carry out remarkably complex tasks. The extraordinary abilities of ChatGPT to perform complex tasks within the field of education has caused mixed feelings among educators, as this advancement in AI seems to revolutionize…
Digital divide in higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Teachers’ test construction competencies in examination-oriented educational system
This study explored the relationship between multiple choice test construction competence and the quality of multiple-choice tests among senior high school teachers in Ghana. In all, 157 teachers were selected from four senior high schools in the Kwahu-South District. Participants responded to self-designed questionnaire developed to assess teachers’ multiple-choice items construction competencies. A three-factor structure emanated from the explo…
Emergency remote assessment practices in higher education in sub-Saharan Africa during Covid-19
Following the disruptions to in-person schooling during COVID-19 and the need for emergency remote teaching, this study explored the assessment experiences of teacher educators in Ghana. Through a qualitative transcendental phenomenological approach, purposive criterion sampling was used to select 25 teacher educators from 15 teacher training institutions in Ghana who participated in online teaching during COVID-19 school closure. The findings sh…
Secondary school categorization in Ghana
Undergirded by the social identity theory and system justification theory, this study explored the impact of secondary school categorization on students schooling experiences. We employed transcendental phenomenological qualitative approach to understand students’ experiences in different categories. We interviewed (n = 20) students from three different school categories (A, B and C). This study provides an initial understanding into students liv…
Cultural validity
Drawing on a scoping-review methodology, this study aimed to map extant literature to conceptualize cultural validity in assessment. Three themes emerged from this review: (a) conceptualization of cultural validity, (b) promoting cultural validity in assessment, and (c) challenges to cultural validity in assessment. The review showed that culturally valid assessment ensures that assessment instruments and practices, assessment decision-making pro…
Towards classroom inclusivity
The study explored teachers’ awareness of classroom cultural diversity using a cross-sectional survey and thematic content document analysis of Ghana’s inclusive education policy and teacher professional development manuals to explore teachers’ cultural diversity awareness. 219 K-12 teachers completed the survey. The study found that teachers are culturally sensitive to working with culturally diverse families and the use of non-standard English.…
Examining School Principals' Conceptions of Assessment and Grading Practices
Principals play a key leadership role in school effectiveness and student success; however, one area that has received relatively little attention so far is principals’ embedded understanding of assessment and grading within the educational context where they work. We examined 141 Chinese school principals’ conceptions of assessment and grading practices using a survey research design. Our results indicated that principals viewed summative assess…
Conceptions of classroom assessment and approaches to grading
Classroom assessment and grading play central roles in education, with important impacts on teachers and students. This study examined the interactions between Canadian teachers’ and students’ conceptions of assessment and approaches to grading. 219 teachers and students completed a survey with two scales: Teachers’ Conceptions of Assessment (TCOA) and Teachers’ Approaches to Grading (TAG). Factor analysis of the TCOA scale showed four factors: a…
Teacher candidates’ experiences of emergency remote assessment during Covid-19
Emergency remote teaching amid global distress
This study explored the emergency remote teaching experiences of Ghanaian teacher educators during COVID-19. The study employed a basic qualitative interpretive approach and purposively interviewed 25 teacher educators from 15 teacher training institutions. Teacher educators in this study reported that emergency remote teaching (ERT) was a learning opportunity and professional capacity-building experience for them to engage in contemporary pedago…
Do students perceive assessment differently? Exploring the diverse ways students conceive assessment and its impact on their assessment experiences and engagement
This study is part of a larger dissertation that examined the assessment culture within Ghana’s education system. This paper specifically investigates the diverse conceptions of assessment held by students and how these perceptions shape their learning-related behaviours and assessment experiences. In total, 405 junior high school (Grades 7–9) and senior high school (Grades 10–12) students responded to the Students’ Conceptions of Assessment Inve…
Understanding the diverse ways teachers approach classroom assessment in an examination-oriented educational system
Psychology (15 works) · Mathematics education (12 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Student Assessment and Feedback (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Higher Education Learning Practices (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)