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Adolescents' gender stereotypes, differences and other aspects of behaviour in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

Mwamwenda, Tuntufye (2013)

While in metropolitan countries gender stereotypes has been a topic of extensive research, this has not been the case in African countries including South Africa. Such a deficit served as a motivation for investigating the ...
Analysis of errors due to deficient mastery of prerequisite skills, facts and concepts: A case of financial mathematics

Khalo, Xolani; Bayaga, Anass (The IIE, 2015)

The main aim of the study was (1) to identify errors committed by learners in financial mathematics, and, (2) to understand why learners continue to make such errors so that mechanisms to avoid them could be devised. It ...
An analysis of secondary school heads’ perception of their supervisory role in Nyanga District: Zimbabwe

Chigudu, Daniel (The IIE, 2016)

The main focus of this paper is an analysis of heads’ perception of their supervisory roles in the context of rural day secondary schools. A survey research design was used to describe the variables. Heads are seen as head ...
Are teachers facilitators or are they mediators? Piaget, Vygotsky and the wisdom of the teacher

Selepe, Cecilia (The IIE, 2016)

There is an ongoing debate about whether teaching is better understood as ‘facilitation’ or ‘mediation’. The debate can be framed in relation to three different theoretical accounts of these concepts: (i) teaching as ...
The assessment of environmental education concepts and skills in Grade 10 Geography

Ferreira, Johanna, G; Molala, Khosi.N.I (The IIE, 2017)

Sustainable development and environmental crises have been recognised globally as relevant to education and teaching. This research explores opportunities and challenges to assess environmental education content, skills ...
Challenges of academic literacy for in-service teachers

Roy, Irene, J.; Van Wyk, Jaqueline, M. (The IIE, 2016)

The teaching and facilitation of academic literacy skills in English second language for in-service teachers presents a challenge in the light of the increased enrolment of un- and under-qualified teachers on the National ...
Changing mental models and developing global mind-sets of business students through international study modules

Human, Cailin; Ungerer, Marius (The IIE, 2016)

The fast-changing interdependent global context and the accompanying need to teach capabilities required in the global marketplace led to the implementation of international global modules for business management students. ...
The classrooms as learning communities

Maphalala, Mnecidisi Christian (The IIE, 2017)

Classrooms are sites in which learning takes place through interactions with others and learners are given opportunities to construct knowledge, and to acquire skills, values and attitudes. Classrooms in which learners and ...
Collaborative learning of mathematics by educationally disadvantaged students at a university.

Pillay, Shan; Maharaj, Aneshkumar (The IIE, 2014)

This paper reports on a qualitative study of how collaborative learning as a pedagogic intervention was implemented in the Centre for Science Access (CSA) in a South African university. Students in the CSA are from ...
Continuous assessment in Expressive Arts in Malawian primary schools

Chirwa, Grames Wellington; Naidoo, Devika (The IIE, 2015)

The new Curriculum in Malawi: the Primary Curriculum and Assessment Reform (PCAR) designed on the principles of integrated learning areas; outcomes; learner-centred pedagogies and continuous assessment (CA) was implemented ...
A developmental approach to an acceleration programme: an analysis of students' performance.

Douglas, Julie (The IIE., 2012)

Acceleration was a course first offered in 2005 through the Vega School of Brand Leadership, a division of The Independent Institute of Education, in South Africa to undergraduate marketing and advertising students who ...
Driving lessons - supporting academic development in a private higher education space.

Ballam, John (The IIE., 2012)

At Varsity College (VC) and throughout the divisions of The Independent Institute of Education, academic developers are known by the title of ‘Academic Development Coordinators’. This paper reflects critically on the ...
Educators’ perceptions about implementing a road safety education programme in the context of curriculum change

Combrinck, Martin; Govender, Jeannie (The IIE, 2017)

This study’s aim was to explore the perceptions of the teachers to the implementation of the road safety education programme in five primary schools in the Pietermaritzburg Region, South Africa. The Department of Transport ...
Email messages: towards a pedagogy of caring.

Aungamuthu, Yougan (The IIE, 2014)

A lecturer in mathematics undertook a study of his students’ perceptions of the various new technologies he was embedding in their extended curriculum programme. This paper is not about that study; this paper is about ...
An evaluative study on the effect of entrepreneurial education curriculum on students at the University of Venda, South Africa

Musetsho, Takalani Radson; Lethoko, Mankolo Xaverine (The IIE, 2017)

This study was conducted amid wider recognition and adoption of the idea of entrepreneurship education within the broader school curriculum. Policymakers, economists and academics’ agendas across the globe emphasise ...
Fairness in using negative marking for assessing true/false questions.

Haffejee, Firoza; Sommerville, Thomas, E. (The IIE, 2014)

Multiple choice questions are a popular method of testing as they are easy to mark. However, they also lend themselves to guessing. True/False questions are particularly prone to guessing. This can be alleviated by deduction ...
From 'Matie' to citizen - graduate attributes as signature learning at Stellenbosch University.

Jacobs, Cecilia; Strydom, Sonja (The IIE, 2014)

Graduateness is generally understood to mean the generic qualities that might be expected of any graduate. The issue of graduateness is explored in this article through an initiative at Stellenbosch University which took ...
Good policy, bad results: an investigation into the implementation of a plagiarism policy in a faculty at a South African university.

Magaisa, Esrina (2013)

This paper reports on an investigation into the implementation of a plagiarism policy and the perceptions of plagiarism among lecturers in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at a university in South Africa. A ...
Good teacher education – an exploratory study

Venter, Elza (The IIE, 2017)

Good or effective education of prospective teachers in traditional higher education settings seemingly differ from educating them in Open Distance Learning (ODL). The literature was reviewed with reference to ‘good teacher ...
Graduate employability skills within the public service: A South African case

Jonck, Petronella (The IIE, 2017)

The article reports on an evaluation of graduate employability skills as determined by public service officials within the Free State Province of South Africa. The sample included human resource management officers, directors ...

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