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Nokwanda Mbusi; Kakoma Luneta – SAGE Open, 2023
Active learning strategies are purported to be effective in enhancing students' understanding of concepts that would otherwise be difficult to master through other strategies of mediating learning. This study forms part of a bigger study where pre-service teachers' errors and misconceptions in transformation geometry were identified, analyzed and…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Active Learning, Transformations (Mathematics), Geometry
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Reyneke, Fransonet; Fletcher, Lizelle; Harding, Ansie – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2021
This article focuses on the unique contribution of the QT-clicker regarding formative and summative assessment in a large flipped first year statistics module. In this module, the flipped classroom as pedagogical model first substituted the traditional teaching model. QT-clickers were subsequently introduced to enable active and cooperative…
Descriptors: Audience Response Systems, Summative Evaluation, Flipped Classroom, Statistics
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Setlhare, Rubina; Wood, Lesley – Educational Action Research, 2020
Teachers working in under-resourced contexts struggle to provide psychosocial support to learners. In this article, we focus on 10 teacher participants' reflections of how a transformative action research process enhanced their collective capacity for initiating sustainable learner support. A linked participatory action learning and action…
Descriptors: Action Research, Teacher Researchers, Sustainability, Active Learning
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Stott, Angela Elisabeth – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2019
Physical sciences teachers in low-quintile South African schools avoid the use of inquiry on the grounds of inefficiency and ineffectiveness for test preparation. This avoidance is consistent with the view that the high cognitive load inquiry offers to extreme novices such as these learners may be prohibitive. Given the purported benefits of…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Program Effectiveness, Active Learning, Inquiry
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Makola, Qonda – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2017
The majority of the students who enroll at the Walter Sisulu University (WSU) in South Africa are not equipped with the necessary academic/learning skills to cope with the university environment, especially in Mechanical Engineering. The Department of Higher Education and Training (2013, p. 17), further states that "students' support is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Readiness, Engineering Education
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de Jager, T. – Africa Education Review, 2013
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the influence of an extrinsic motivational tool, "class-bucks," on the possibility of improving first year student-teachers' participation in active learning at Tshwane University of Technology in South Africa. Research participants (n=289) were divided into four classes and engaged in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Student Participation, Lecture Method