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NMMU Research and Innovation Report 2011 - Research Overview
2. Higher education curriculum studies: For example: Feyt, L.E.,
Calitz, A.P. & Greyling, J.H. An investigation into the need for
incorporating software testing and quality assurance into
a higher education curriculum. Proceedings of the 2011 Annual
Conference of the South African Computer Lecturer's Association.
3. HIV/AIDS education: For example: Baxter, J., Wood, L.A. &
Austin, P.W. Reconsidering and repositioning HIV/AIDS within
teacher education. International Journal of Children’s Rights,
29(4).
4. Academic literacies development in higher education: For
example: Kloss, M.L. Genre pedagogy in the mediation of
situated literacies acquisition: The experiences of apprentices
in a higher education community of practice. Journal for
Language Teaching (SALT), 45(1); Israel, H.F. Engineering soft
skills? My responsibility. A case study at the Nelson Mandela
Metropolitan University. Proceedings of the First Biennial
Conference of the South African Society for Engineering Education
(SASEE); Knott, A., Lombard, H. & McGrath, P. Towards
collaborative practices of academic citizenship in mechanical
engineering education at a comprehensive university: A critique
of discourses. Proceedings of the First Biennial Conference of the
South African Society for Engineering Education (SASEE).
5. Student development and support: For example: de Jager,
M.J. & Ntlokwana, N. The prevalence and characteristics of higher
education peer helping programmes: Managerial perspectives.
South African Journal of Higher Education, 25(4); Van Lingen,
J.M., de la Harpe, D.L. & Wannenburg, I. A cross-sectional
exploration of the relationship between undergraduate nursing
student wellness and academic outcomes in a South African
higher education institution. South African Journal of Psychology,
41(3).
6. Role of feedback: For example: Lamb-du Plessis, S.M. &
Simpson, Z. Students expectations of feedback on draft writing.
Per Linguam: A Journal of Language Learning, 27(1); Harran,
M. What higher education students do with teacher feedback:
Feedback implications. South African Linguistics and Applied
Language Studies, 29(4).
7. Advancing teacher education: For example: Delport, A.C. &
Mufute, J. Training the non-specialist music teacher: Insights
from a Zimbabwean case study. Journal of Music Arts in Africa,
7(1); du Plessis, A. & Webb, P. An extended “learning by design”
framework based on learner perceptions. American Journal of
Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education,
15(2).
8. Enhancing education in schools: For example: Singh, P.
Xenophobia experienced by teachers in secondary schools: An
exploratory study on curriculum reform in the Nelson Mandela
Metropole. Africa Education Review (Educare), 8(2).
9. Pedagogical innovations: For example: Padayachee, P.,
Boshoff, H.H., Olivier, W.A. & Harding, A. Technology to enhance
the teaching and learning of mathematics. Pythagoras, 43(4);
Nel, J. & Barnard, L. Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference
of the South African Computer Lecturer's Association.
In addition to the subsidy-generating research outputs, it should
also be noted that 10 Masters’ dissertations and three Doctoral
theses had a SotL-related focus. Examples are a Masters study by
Wienand, M.A. entitled: Empowering teachers to render learner
support to learners who experience reading barriers; a Masters study
by Beck, R.A. entitled: Retention and dropout rates for a sample of
national higher certificate students in the School of Accounting;
and a Doctoral study by Ntaote, G.M. entitled: Exploring ways of
assisting Lesotho educators to offer care and support to children
orphaned and rendered vulnerable by HIV and AIDS.