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Burger, Andri; Naudé, Luzelle – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
The aim of this study was to investigate the predictors of academic success of South African students. The study focused on 164 first to fourth year students. The extent to which students' grade 12 performance, the type of high school they attended and their academic self-concepts contributed to their academic success during the entry and…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement, Success, Grade 12
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Chimhande, Tinoda; Naidoo, Ana; Stols, Gerrit – Africa Education Review, 2017
This article reports on a study of six Grade 11 learners' levels of understanding of concepts related to the function definition and representation. Task-based clinical interviews were used to elicit the learners' interpretations and reasoning when working with these function-related concepts. Indicators for Action-Process-Object-Schema (APOS)…
Descriptors: Grade 11, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Case Studies
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Grobler, Adelene A.; Knight, Mirriam R.; Lens, Willy; Lacante, Marlies – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2014
A relatively large number of South African learners drop out of school during the last 2 years of high school. This has important negative consequences for the individual learners, as well as for the country as a whole since it contributes greatly to the high number of unskilled and unemployed people. This study was carried out to explore whether,…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, High School Students, Self Determination, Learning Motivation