Browsing Faculty of Education by Author "Rhodes, J.S."
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Feuerstein' s Mediated Learning Experience (MLE) and Self-concept of Biology Students
Bleazard, Adele (University of the Western Cape, 1995)This study focuses on the underachieving student. In particular, it examines the effect on a group of underachieving biology students, drawn from three standard nine classes in a girls' secondary school in Elsies River, ... -
An investigation into some causes of cognitive deficiencies among high school pupils in the learning of differential calculus and implications for further study
Matsela, Simon (University of the Western Cape, 1994)Little attention is usually given to the disadvantaged pupils' lack of problem solving skills and thinking skills needed for successful learning of differential calculus. Factors like what makes (disadvantaged) pupils not ... -
Mediation and a Problem Solving Approach to Junior Primary Mathematics
Dirks, Denise (University of the Western Cape, 1996)This study argues that not all children in the Junior Primary phase benefit from the Problem Centred Approach in mathematics that was adapted by the Research, Unit for Mathematics at the University of Stellenbosch (RUMEUS). ... -
Schema theory and problem-solving in biology
Chetty, S. (University of the Western Cape, 1996)There is ongoing research to understand why some students experience difficulty in solving problems. There is an equal concern over students that do arrive at correct solutions to problems, but who are unable to justify ... -
Some cognitive difficulties that standard six and seven pupils at a typical Cape Flats school experience with the generalized number pattern approach to algebra
Felix, C.B.A (UWC, 1996)Mathematics teaching in South African schools is currently in a state of ferment. The recent political transformation in the country has had a ripple effect on the curriculum in the form of a more "pupi1 centered approach. ...