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Tess Allegra Forest; Sarah A. McCormick; Lauren Davel; Nwabisa Mlandu; Michal R. Zieff; Khula South Africa Data Collection Team; Dima Amso; Kirsty A. Donald; Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam – Developmental Science, 2025
Caregivers play an outsized role in shaping early life experiences and development, but we often lack mechanistic insight into "how" exactly caregiver behavior scaffolds the neurodevelopment of specific learning processes. Here, we capitalized on the fact that caregivers differ in how predictable their behavior is to ask if infants'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Child Caregivers, Caregiver Role
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Nazarana Mather; Liesl Scheepers – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2025
Feedback is one of the most powerful tools for teaching and learning. Providing meaningful feedback to students is of particular importance in an online context as it is a direct way for the facilitator to engage with their students and to provide them with individual, tailored support. This study sought to explore the perceptions of online…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Private Colleges, Facilitators (Individuals), Online Courses
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Jaysveree Louw; Heidi Claassens – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
This theoretical article examines the crucial role of play-based learning (PBL) in enhancing the mathematical skills of children in the Early Childhood Phase, referred to as Foundation Phase (Grade R-3) learners, within a South African context. The article argues that the traditional approach to teaching early childhood mathematics, where teachers…
Descriptors: Play, Mathematics Skills, Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods
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Aletta M. du Plessis; Cornelia M. Schreck; Christo A. Bisschoff; Dané Coetzee; Samantha A. Kahts-Kramer; Jacobus J. Oosthuizen – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2025
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) communities of practice (CoP) have emerged as collaborative learning environments that unite people with a shared interest. However, forming and maintaining a successful SoTL CoP can be challenging, requiring careful planning and execution. As academics, we face various challenges in our teaching and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Communities of Practice, College Faculty
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Mildret Ncube; Kakoma Luneta – Pythagoras, 2025
The study examined the impact of concept-based instruction on the teaching and learning of mathematics. Functions is the topic that was implemented in order to identify the improvements in learners' understanding. A total of 35 Grade 11 learners from a South African township school in Limpopo province participated in this study. Data were…
Descriptors: Grade 11, Secondary School Teachers, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction
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Nomcebo Nobuhle Mhlungu; Philani Brian Mlambo – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2025
This study investigates the challenges faced by grade 10 teachers in Engineering Graphics and Design (EGD) classrooms and their impact on learners' performance, particularly related to poor outcomes on the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination. The study used convenience sampling to select five EGD teachers from two schools offering the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Graphic Arts, Computer Graphics, Instructional Effectiveness