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Direct linkTeresa Del Bianco; Georgia Lockwood Estrin; Julian Tillmann; Bethany F. Oakley; Daisy Crawley; Antonia San José Cáceres; Hannah Hayward; Mandy Potter; Wendy Mackay; Petrusa Smit; Carlie du Plessis; Lucy Brink; Priscilla Springer; Hein Odendaal; Tony Charman; Tobias Banaschewski; Simon Baron-Cohen; Sven Bölte; Mark Johnson; Declan Murphy; Jan Buitelaar; Eva Loth; Emily J. H. Jones – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Autistic individuals experience higher rates of externalising and internalising symptoms that may vary with environmental factors. However, there is limited research on variation across settings that may highlight common factors with globally generalisable effects. Data were taken from two cohorts: a multinational European sample (n = 764; 453…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Socioeconomic Influences, Mental Health
Maree, Jacobus Gideon; Che, Jude – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This article reports on the effect of life-design counselling on a purposefully selected learner from an environment challenged by disadvantages. An instrumental, single-case study approach was followed and collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data proceeded simultaneously. Intervention comprised assessment and dialogues and…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Disadvantaged Environment, Career Counseling
Download full textYaw Owusu-Agyeman; Semira Pillay – Journal of Educators Online, 2024
Emergent scholarly studies on the use of social network sites (SNSs) in higher education have focused mainly on how SNSs could enhance effective teaching and learning. However, very few studies have explored how social relationships between teachers and learners could serve as a learner-centered approach to promote teaching and learning through…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Web Sites, Instructional Effectiveness, Teacher Effectiveness
McGhie, Venicia; Venter, Antoinette; Dos Reis, Karen – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2020
African and coloured students continue to perform poorly both at public schools and institutions of higher learning. There are two main reasons for their weak performance -- a lack of literacy and numeracy skills, and being under-prepared. This article reports on two findings of a study that was conducted at two high schools in the Western Cape…
Descriptors: Business Education, Economics Education, Accounting, Elementary Secondary Education
van Aswegen, Suzanne; Swart, Estelle; Oswald, Marietjie M. – South African Journal of Education, 2019
Being aware of our thinking as we perform learning tasks and then using this knowledge to actively self-regulate what we are doing, is commonly known as metacognition. This study investigated the influence of a story-based intervention on the development of metacognition among Intermediate Phase learners engaged in content area learning. Two…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Story Telling, Public Schools, Elementary School Students
Tivaringe, Tafadzwa – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
The South African government recently adopted an education policy that attempts to achieve socio-economic redress through expanding free university education to first-year students from low-income backgrounds. However, in a country in which structural factors such as race, gender, and age continue to shape labor market outcomes, to what extent can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Income, Socioeconomic Background, Intervention
Mayombe, Celestin – Education & Training, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the way the adult non-formal education and training (NFET) centres motivated and empowered graduates to start their own micro-enterprises as individuals or as a group. The specific objectives are as follows: to find out the transforming factors fostering the utilisation of acquired skills into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Informal Education, Entrepreneurship, Teaching Methods
Combrinck, Celeste; Mtsatse, Nangamso – South African Journal of Education, 2019
South Africa participated in the electronic version of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (ePIRLS) in 2016 but faced many challenges during implementation. Accurate databases on information and communication technologies (ICT) capacity of schools were not available for sampling in Gauteng, many schools had old and/or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 4, International Assessment, Achievement Tests
Visser, Margaretha M.; Juan, Andrea L.; Hannan, Sylvia M. – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2019
Background: The acquired skill set prior to school entry has emerged as an important issue in research and policy internationally. Much evidence exists advocating the importance of early numeracy and literacy skills in later academic achievement and economic outcomes of students. Aim: The goal of this study was to determine the association between…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Mathematics Achievement, Foreign Countries, Parent Participation
Feza, Nosisi Nellie – Issues in Educational Research, 2016
Language in mathematics learning and teaching has a significant role in influencing performance. Literature on language in mathematics learning has evolved from language as a barrier to language as a cultural tool, and recently more research has argued for use of home language as an instructional tool in mathematics classrooms. However, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Numeracy, Academic Ability, Language Proficiency
Mayombe, Celestin – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2016
Adult non-formal education and training (NFET) in South Africa was adopted in 1990 to address the problem of unemployment of non-educated and unskilled adults. Public and private NFET centres aim to meet the training needs of adults who were deprived of formal education that would foster access to opportunities for employment. The paper reports on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Nonformal Education, Employment Programs
Hobden, Sally; Hobden, Paul – South African Journal of Education, 2015
School-level educational interventions targeting learners from low socioeconomic backgrounds often have the long-term goal of enabling access to, and successful completion of tertiary studies. This study tracked the progress of alumni of an educational intervention two or three years post school, in order to investigate their pathways to their…
Descriptors: Intervention, Graduate Surveys, Longitudinal Studies, Progress Monitoring
Mncayi, Precious; Dunga, Steven Henry – Industry and Higher Education, 2016
Graduate unemployment is especially problematic in a country where much emphasis is placed on furthering academic studies for economic and personal rewards. This article investigates the relationship between career choice and unemployment length among graduates from a South African university. Data were collected by means of a survey questionnaire…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Unemployment, Least Squares Statistics, Majors (Students)
Southwood, Frenette – Journal of Child Language, 2013
The aims of the study were to establish whether there is a correlation between the socioeconomic background of Afrikaans-speaking children and their performance on a dialect-neutral language test, and to ascertain whether the allowance the test currently makes for parental education level is sufficient. The Afrikaans version of the…
Descriptors: Dialects, Indo European Languages, Foreign Countries, Correlation
Shaughnessy, Michael F.; Moore, Tammy Lynne; Maree, Kobus – Gifted Education International, 2013
Always regarded as somewhat of an "outsider" (the child of an English-speaking (Catholic) mother and an Afrikaans (Protestant) father in an exclusively Afrikaans milieu) and growing up extremely poor, seeing the hardship of others and realising how much talent was going to waste, Kobus Maree took a particular interest in gifted…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Foreign Countries, Creativity, Strategic Planning
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