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Brendon D. Faroa; Michael Rowe; Anthea Rhoda; Babatope Adebiyi – Perspectives in Education, 2025
Student success in South African higher education institutions (HEIs) is poor and universities have not been successful in implementing strategies to improve students' learning experiences. Tutoring has been identified as an effective strategy to improve student success but is often used inconsistently and without pedagogical justification. The…
Descriptors: Tutors, Tutoring, Tutorial Programs, Health Sciences
Undergraduate Mathematics Students' Reported Use of Learning Resources towards Accessing Mathematics
le Roux, Kate; Murugan, Jeff; Marquard, Stephen; Adams, Patrick – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2023
The topic of resources for learning mathematics commonly becomes of interest during times of disruption and rapid change in education. The considerable research on undergraduate mathematics students' resource use largely focuses on learning resources in the form of material technologies and texts. Concerned that contemporary decisions about…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Mathematics, Learning Strategies, Information Sources
Jaroslaw Pawel Adamiak – Open Praxis, 2024
The academic success of first-year students' learning in science faculties is by no means assured, especially in an Open Distance Learning setting with its limited number of face-to-face encounters between students and lecturers or tutors. Therefore, such encounters should be highly efficient in view of the considerable amount of knowledge…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Open Education
Padayachi, Sasha; Maistry, Suriamurthee Moonsamy – International Journal of Higher Education, 2022
This study investigates the implementation of the methodology, Interactive Qualitative Analysis (IQA) (Northcutt & McCoy, 2004) during the COVID-19 pandemic, to understand how non-major accounting students learn Accounting 101 in a threshold concepts-inspired tutorial programme. Even though IQA is a predominantly qualitative method, it…
Descriptors: Nonmajors, Accounting, Business Administration Education, Qualitative Research
Coetzee, Stephen A.; Schmulian, Astrid; Coetzee, Rholé – Accounting Education, 2018
This study explores undergraduate accounting students' perceptions of web conferencing-based tutorials, in a developing country, South Africa. In addition, this study explores the effect of these tutorials on academic performance. Understanding the perceptions of students regarding the effectiveness of using web conferencing is both influential…
Descriptors: Teleconferencing, Tutorial Programs, Accounting, Business Administration Education
Munje, Paul Nwati; Nanima, Robert Doya; Clarence, Sherran – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2018
Peer tutoring in higher education aims to enhance student learning, and confidence. In writing centres, peer writing tutors use critical questioning to make the tutorial sessions student-focused and productive. The nature of questions influences the outcomes of the tutorials, yet research has not devoted sufficient time to unpacking what form this…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Writing Instruction
Cassells, Laetitia – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
The application of formative assessment principles in higher education has become increasingly important in South Africa. In this case study the researcher assesses the effectiveness of the application of an early warning system to the higher-education environment in a high failure rate subject. This method is applied according to recommended…
Descriptors: Identification, At Risk Students, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Louw, Ina – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2018
Tutorials/discussion classes are seen as an essential part of the teaching mix in the natural sciences, because that is where problems can be solved and course content is applied. Learning support provided by teaching assistants may free up the lecturer to do research, but are these assistants sufficiently well trained and well informed? Do…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Teaching Assistants, Research Universities, Tutors
du Buisson, Theuns – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2017
Conducting undergraduate studies in the English language, while only a small minority of students speak English at home, poses many problems to learning in the South African context. This article explores how restrictive language policies may influence proper learning and impact negatively on the self-understanding of students. It also explores…
Descriptors: Multilingual Materials, Multilingualism, Tutorial Programs, Undergraduate Study
Campbell, Anita – Pythagoras, 2015
Pressure to increase the throughput of university students in ethical ways has been a catalyst for innovations to improve learning and student success. Student dropout occurs mostly in the first year of study and poor performance is a major contributor to dropout even if the underlying reason for the poor performance is not academic…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Introductory Courses, Tutorial Programs, Engineering Education
Nyoni, Jabulani – Perspectives in Education, 2014
This article is a narrative report of the findings from the analysis of multicultural facilitators' discourses on their e-readiness in the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) affordances in open and distance learning (ODL) mediation experiences. First, the findings revealed by qualitative deconstructive discourse analysis…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Readiness, Information Technology