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Coetzee, Bronwynè; Kagee, Ashraf – Africa Education Review, 2021
In psychology departments in South Africa, the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) is routinely used for quantitative analysis. While SPSS has a user-friendly interface, it does not permit application of some of the more sophisticated analytic approaches and therefore has limited functionality. The programming language R can perform…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Psychology, Programming Languages
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Govender, Irene; Govender, Desmond Wesley – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2012
The teaching of programming and problem solving has been a challenge and has excited much debate in the literature, so too has been the use of learning management systems (LMSs) to facilitate teaching and enhance learning. In this case study we explore students' perceptions and expectations of the effectiveness of using a constructivist approach…
Descriptors: Programming, Constructivism (Learning), Expectation, Instructional Effectiveness
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Hahn, Jan Hendrik; Mentz, Elsa; Meyer, Lukas – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2012
The aim of the research was to determine to what extent students' perceptions of assessment (peer, self, fascilitator and individual) in pair programming situations changed from the beginning to the end of a programming module. In order to achieve this aim, both quantitative and qualitative research methods were used. During the quantitative phase…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Programming, Evaluation Methods, Statistical Analysis