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ASSESSMENT IS A POWERFUL DRIVER OF STUDENT LEARNING: it gives a message to learners about what they should be learning, what the learning organisation believes to be important, and how they should go about learning. Assessment tools allow measurement of student achievement and thereby give teachers insight into their students' learning, and enable teachers to make systematic judgements about progress and achievement. It is vital then that assessment tools drive students to learn the right...
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This instrumental case study examined the perceptions of African-American current and former secondary teacher education majors about the impact of sociocultural capital on their matriculation through the secondary teacher education program at an historically Black University (HBCU). There were two cohorts of participants: (a) four current majors in various content area secondary teacher education programs and (b) three former majors. Pierre Bourdieu's (1974) and Edmund Gordon's (1999)...
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Thesis (S.B. in Art and Design)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2009.
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Purpose. HIV/AIDS has grown to become the biggest epidemic in modern history. Southern Africa is at the epicentre of the global epidemic, with just of a third of the world's HIV-positive population living here. It is known that HIV/AIDS affect vulnerable population groups. It is surprising then, that persons with disabilities, one of the world's most vulnerable population groups, particularly in southern Africa, have been largely overlooked with regards to HIV/AIDS. This review sought to...
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This paper describes and characterizes the science and mathematics education communities in South Africa by looking at their refereed outputs from 2000–2006. The publications under study are studies focusing on South Africa in local and international journals from 2000–2006. Our interest lies in looking more closely at the authors to understand how the two communities grow and evolve. We also examine similarities and differences between the communities and how these have influenced their...
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ABSTRACT The primary aim of this study was to explore the lived-experiences of teachers who were responsible for the presentation of the official HIV & AIDS Programme of the Department of Education of South Africa. The study was motivated by the fact that it seemed as if schools do not implement the prescribed programmes as research has indicated that a mere 18% of schools are following a Sexuality Education Programme with HIV & AIDS as a core component. Experts commonly hold the view that...
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Standing in the operating theatre and seeing a heart's function improve after replacing a stenotic aortic valve, or repairing an incompentent mitral valve or revascularising obstructed coronary arteries is an amazing experience. Very few people have the opportunity to see a heart come to life when we remove the aortic cross clamp after cardiac surgery. Blood flushes the cardioplegia out of the coronaries, the myocardial cells fuel its sodium, potassium and calcium pumps from the life giving...
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South African Higher Education has gone through various changes and challenges, one of these being the merger process. Various Universities and Technikons were forced to merge in an effort to aid the transformation and restructuring of the Higher Education landscape in the post-apartheid era. From an ICT point of view, the merged Institutions ended up with massive and distributed computing facilities. These facilities must be managed and secured and it can be appreciated that the complexity...
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The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether academic staff members in an ODL institution use digital non-text-based resources (e.g, graphs, photographs and video clips) in research and teaching practice and what their future requirements for such resources would be. Though many studies exist on the use of textual resources, the subject area of digital non-text-based resources has not been widely studied, especially in the field of distance learning and this thesis will add...
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The global shift toward the use of information and commu - nication technology (ICT) in health education and practice has been shown to enhance both the educational opportunities and the support provided to students and healthcare professionals. This study aimed to investigate the use of ICT by South A frican physiotherapy students and what their experiences and perceptions were regarding their use of ICT as part of their studies. The study design was a cross-sectional, descriptive survey...