Osmond Amponsah Asiamah

Osmond Amponsah Asiamah is a first-year Ph.D. in Education student specializing in Mathematics Education in the School of Education, University of Delaware. He is interested in working with teachers and students to enact mathematics lessons that foster students’ meaningful learning, especially in geometry. 

Before starting the Ph.D. program, Osmond taught mathematics for 14 years in Ghana. He taught at senior high school for 11 years and moved to S.D.A. College of Education, Asokore -Koforidua, where he taught mathematics courses and mentored student teachers to develop the craft of teaching. Alongside his work at the college, he was a School Improvement Advisor for the Ghana Education Service/Transforming Teaching Education & Learning, where he was responsible for facilitating school-wide self-evaluation, implementing, monitoring, and reporting, on the implementation of Ghana’s Secondary Education Reform Programme (2023 – 2028).

Education

• M. Phil. Mathematics Education, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, 2019         
• B. Ed. in Mathematics, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, 2010  

Professional Experience

• Graduate Research Assistant: School of Education, University of Delaware, 2024 – 
• Assistant Lecturer (Mathematics), S.D.A. College of Education, Asokore – Koforidua, Ghana, 2021 – 2024 
• Mathematics Teacher, Tema Secondary School, Tema – Accra, Ghana, 2019 – 2021 
• Mathematics Teacher, St. Francis Senior High Technical School, Akim Oda, Ghana, 2010 – 2019

Publications

• Sam, Stephen Ebo, Justice Yawson Mensah, Stephen Eduah, Samuel Ameyaw Dobre, and Osmond Amponsah Asiamah. “Assessment of Factors Influencing Geometry Achievement in Senior High Schools in Ghana.” Assessment 15, no. 9 (2024).
• Owusu-Darko, Isaac, Stephen Ebo-Sam, and Osmond Amponsah Asiamah. “The Interconnections of Akan Informal Ethnomathematics and School-based Formal Curriculum Mathematics.” Indonesian Journal of Ethnomathematics 3, no. 1 (2024): 1-24.
• Asiamah, Osmond A., and Jonathan A. Fletcher. “The Effect of Video-Based Pedagogy on Students’ Spatial Ability in Solid Geometry.” Asian Journal of Interdisciplinary Research 6, no. 4 (2024): 26-36.