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Assessing the effectiveness of academic development programmes: A statistical analysis of graduation rates across three programmes

Author: Smith, Leonard; Case, Jenni; van Walbeek, Corne Date: 28 May 2015 This article reports on a study that used statistical analysis to estimate the impact of the first-year academic development (AD) courses offered by three diverse AD programmes (in the commerce, engineering and science faculties) at the same ... Read more
Foreign direct investment in South Africa : a comparative study of strategies and key determinants

Author: Danstile, Monwabisi Dominic Date: 2005 This dissertation considers the question of foreign direct investment (FDI) into South Africa. It examines constraints on investment, entry strategies by foreign films, firm performance and the impact of FDI on the South African economy. Read more
Investigating the effectiveness of animations in exploring learning a case study in a Chemical Engineering course

Author: Ma, Karen Date: 2012 Using technology in the classroom environment has become increasingly popular among educators. One way of employing technology is using instructional animations to teach concepts, favoured owing to their ability to depict changes in object ... Read more
Measuring the impact of educational interventions on the academic performance of Academic Development Students in second-year microeconomics

Author: Smith, Leonard; Ranchhod, Vimal Date: 28 May 2015 This paper analyses the impact of educational interventions made in the first- and second-year microeconomics courses on academic development students final mark in the second-year course. It also addresses issues of methodology, specification, ... Read more
Measuring the impact of educational interventions on the academic performance of black academic development students

Author: Smith, Leonard Date: 2012 This article uses statistical analysis to estimate the impact of educational interventions in the first and second-year microeconomics courses on black academic development students' examination and final course marks. The results suggest ... Read more
A multivariate evaluation of mainstream and academic development courses in first-year microeconomics

Author: Smith, Leonard ; Edwards, Lawrence Date: 2007 This paper analyses the impact of the University of Cape Town's first-year microeconomics academic development course on performance in examinations. The paper makes two advances to existing empirical literature in this area. Firstly, we ... Read more
A system for the acquisition and digital analysis of lower limb flow waveforms

Author: Smith, Leonard Date: 1994 A PC based waveform acquisition and analysis system has been developed for use in aorta-iliac arterial assessment. A Motorola DSP56001 based system containing dual Analog to Digital converters is used to sample phase quadrature demodulated ... Read more

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