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Browsing Science, Mathematics and Technology Education by Type "Postprint Article"
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Yani, Bridgette; Harding, Ansie; Engelbrecht, Johann
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)
This paper focuses on the students who are registered in the University of Pretoria’s academic development programme, named the Four-year Programme (FYP). The programme was introduced as a gateway for students who are ...
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Chimhande, Tinoda; Naidoo, Ana; Stols, Gerrit Hendrikus
(Routledge, 2017-07)
This article reports on a study of six Grade 11 learners’ levels of understanding of concepts related to the function definition and representation. Task-based clinical interviews were used to elicit the learners’ ...
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Kavai, Portia; De Villiers, Johannes Jozua Rian; Fraser, William John; Sommerville, Jaqui E.M.; Strydom, Nina
(Routledge, 2015-06)
In Life Sciences education internationally, including South Africa, the study of animal and organ morphology
has traditionally involved dissections since the early nineteenth century. The major purpose of this study was
to ...
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Stols, Gerrit Hendrikus; Long, Caroline; Dunne, Tim
(Routledge, 2015)
The purpose of this study is to apply the Rasch model to investigate both the Van Hiele
theory for geometric development and an associated test. In terms of the test, the objective is
to investigate the functioning of a ...
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Masango, Michack Mandla; Van Ryneveld, Linda; Graham, Marien Alet
(Routledge, 2020)
The use of information and communications technology (ICT) is gradually increasing in South African schools. In the Gauteng province, the Department of Education has prioritised the provisioning of electronic textbooks ...
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Borba, Marcelo C.; Askar, Petek; Engelbrecht, Johann; Gadanidis, George; Llinares, Salvador; Aguilar, Mario Sánchez
(Springer, 2016-08)
In this literature survey we focus on identifying recent advances in research on
digital technology in the field of mathematics education. To conduct the survey
we have used Internet search engines with keywords related ...
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Akuma, Fru Vitalis; Callaghan, Ronel
(Springer, 2019-12)
Inquiry-based science education has been incorporated in science curricula internationally. In this regard, however, many teachers encounter challenges. The challenges have been characterised into those linked to the ...
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Fuchs, Kirsty; Van der Linde, Jeannie; Eccles, Renata; Swanepoel, De Wet; Graham, Marien Alet; Du Toit, Maria
(Routledge, 2023)
Children in low-income communities are at risk for developmental delays and sensory losses. mHealth screening tools enable community health workers to detect developmental delays and sensory losses. This study aims to ...
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Mazibe, Ernest Nkosingiphile; Gaigher, Estelle; Coetzee, Corene
(Routledge, 2020)
It has recently been suggested that pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) has a concept-specific nature, beyond the topic-specific level of PCK. This paper reports a case study of three pre-service teachers’ reported PCK ...
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Ramaligela, Sylvia M.; Ogbonnaya, Ugorji Iheanachor; Mji, Andile
(Routledge, 2019)
Instructional practice plays a significant role in understanding teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). The aim of the study reported on was to compare mathematics and technology pre-service teachers’ knowledge of ...
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Saal, Petronella Elize; Van Ryneveld, Linda; Graham, Marien Alet
(Routledge, 2022)
This study explored the relationship between educational technology and the mathematics achievement of South African and German students. Hierarchical Linear Models (HLM) showed that the availability of computers at school ...
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Mazibe, Ernest Nkosingiphile; Coetzee, Corene; Gaigher, Estelle
(Springer, 2020-06)
This paper reports a case study of four grade 10 physical sciences teachers’ PCK about graphs of motion. We used three data collection strategies, namely teachers’ written accounts, captured by the content representation ...
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Engelbrecht, Johann; Bergsten, Christer; Kågesten, Owe
(Taylor and Francis, 2017-06)
The research interest underpinning this paper concerns the type of mathematical knowledge engineering students may acquire during their specialised education in terms of the conceptual and procedural dimensions of doing ...
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Bergsten, Christer; Engelbrecht, Johann; Kagesten, Owe
(Taylor and Francis, 2015-11)
This study forms part of a collaboration project between universities in South Africa and Sweden
in which we investigate whether the emphasis in undergraduate mathematics courses for
engineering students would benefit ...
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Khoza, Hlologelo Climant
(Routledge, 2022)
No abstract available.
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Da Veiga, Adele; Astakhova, Liudmila V.; Botha, Adele; Herselman, Marlien E.
(Elsevier, 2020-05)
The ideal or strong information security culture can aid in minimising the threat of humans to information protection and thereby aid in reducing data breaches or incidents in organisations. This research sets out to ...
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Malela-Majika, Jean-Claude; Graham, Marien Alet
(Taylor and Francis, 2024)
Traditionally, the mean of the run-length distribution (ARL) of an in-control (IC) process is used to design and implement statistical process charting schemes. When standards are unknown (Case U), the unconditional ARL ...
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Robberts, Anna Sophia; Van Ryneveld, Linda
(Sage, 2022-12)
Educators are drawn into a battle for student attention and engagement in any learning environment. This article describes how a learning environment can be changed into a game-based activity to ensure student engagement. ...
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Callaghan, Ronel
(Springer, 2018-07)
The goal of this research was to design a process to support the development of mobile teaching practice, embedded within the teaching and research activities in a Faculty of Education at a research-intensive university. ...
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Vollebregt, Bronia Roxane; Gaigher, Estelle; Coetzee, Corene
(Routledge, 2021)
This study investigated the effect of in-service training in the use of the ripple tank equipment on science teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) about the topic of waves. Three Grade 10 Physical Sciences teachers ...