Author:Potgieter, Marietjie; Davidowitz, Bette; Venter, ElsieDate:2008Many universities in South Africa use alternative admissions tests together with results of the Grade 12 examinations for access of placement. These tests focus on academic literacy and mathematical skills and do not provide information about ...Read more
Author:Wallace, P KarenDate:2010Teaching assistants (or demonstrators as they are called at South African universities) have become indispensable to the delivery of teaching particularly to first-year students, due mainly to the growing need in tertiary institutions to ...Read more
Author:Vokwana, Nonkanyiso QueenDate:2013In 1986, Shulman described Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK), as the transformation of Content Knowledge into various forms which help students to understand the concepts. In a later study, Shulman (1987) identified the construct of PCK ...Read more
Author:Davidowitz, Bette; Schreiber, BirgitDate:2008Several studies have emphasised the importance of addressing social and emotional factors in facilitating adjustment to tertiary education. This article describes the Skills for Success in Science programme at the University of Cape Town. The ...Read more
Author:Potgieter, Marietjie; Davidowitz, BetteDate:2010There has been much discussion on the impact of the new curricula for Grades 10–12 on the preparedness for tertiary studies of the 2009 cohort in subjects such as mathematics, chemistry and physics. Using the Chemical Competence Test that was ...Read more
Author:Davidowitz, Bette; Rollnick, MarissaDate:2005Throughput of students is a concern for academic departments especially since it will be the basis of a new funding formula for tertiary institutions. In order to reduce content for increased mastery, and ensure student engagement with chemical ...Read more
Author:Davidowitz, Bette; Rollnick, Marissa; Fakudze, CynthiaDate:2003In practical sessions students lack sufficient time or opportunity for deep processing of information. If the signal to noise ratio is too low, it can obscure the ‘chemical message’ which the lecturer is trying to convey. This study reports ...Read more
Author:Davidowitz, Bette; Potgieter, Marietjie; Mathabatha, S. S.Date:2008The introduction of an outcomes-based curriculum in South Africa together with a new syllabus for physical sciences for grades 10-12, prompted the development of an instrument to monitor conceptual understanding in chemistry at the ...Read more
Author:Davidowitz, Bette; Potgieter, MarietjieDate:2011The development of the Chemistry Competence Test was prompted by the extensive curriculum changes in the South African school system after democracy was established in 1994. As chemists, we were concerned that there might be a lack of ...Read more
Author:Davidowitz, BetteDate:1984The effect of protonation and Lewis acid-base interaction on the ¹H n.m.r. chemical shifts of the ester and amide bonds in selected phosphoramidates (RO)₂P(O)NR'₂ was investigated. The results are interpreted in terms of the interaction of ...Read more
Author:Maughan, PaulDate:2016A capstone course, Business Analysis and Governance (BAG), compulsory for all students studying towards becoming chartered accountants, was introduced at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 2012. It was designed to develop pervasive skills ...Read more
Author:Rollnick, Marissa; Davidowitz, Bette; Keane, Moyra; Bapoo, Abdool; Magadla, LizoDate:2008What is the connection between student success and their approaches to learning? Do learning approaches develop with university experience? We explored these questions by constructing profiles using a specially developed fixed response ...Read more
Author:Davidowitz, BetteDate:1977The photochemistry of organometallic compounds is receiving increasing attention in the current literature, but as yet, little work has been reported on the photochemistry of metal-containing ketones. The objective of the work reported in ...Read more
Author:Davidowitz, Bette; Potgieter, MarietjieDate:Jun 2016Research has shown that a high level of content knowledge (CK) is necessary but not sufficient to develop the special knowledge base of expert teachers known as pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). This study contributes towards research to ...Read more
Author:Davidowitz, Bette; Rollnick, MarissaDate:2011Teaching organic chemistry at the undergraduate level has long been regarded as challenging and students are often alienated by the mass of detail which seems to characterise the subject. In this paper we investigate the practice of an ...Read more