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King, Thomas; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Willmers, Michelle; Walji, Sukaina – Open Praxis, 2016
Open Research has the potential to advance the scientific process by improving the transparency, rigour, scope and reach of research, but choosing to experiment with Open Research carries with it a set of ideological, legal, technical and operational considerations. Researchers, especially those in resource-constrained situations, may not be aware…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Reflection, Strategic Planning, Access to Information
Strydom, Andries H.; Labuschagne, Maria J. – 1986
A national project in the Republic of South Africa (RSA) to facilitate and coordinate institutional research efforts and the research activities at individual universities is described. A proposal for a comprehensive research project on higher education in RSA is included. One project at the University of the Orange Free State (UOFS) is designed…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, Coordination, Developing Nations
Meyer, P. S. – 1984
In these opening remarks to a 1984 International Conference on Education for the Gifted at the University of Stellenbosch, Union of South Africa, the Director-General of National Education summarizes the South African Government's approach to programs for gifted education. The diversity and complexity of the South African population calls for a…
Descriptors: Conferences, Educational Planning, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Shaughnessy, J. Michael; Canada, Dan; Ciancetta, Matt – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
This paper summarizes the thinking of 84 middle school mathematics students' about variability in three stochastics tasks that involve repeated trial. Differences in students' acknowledgment of variability were found, depending on whether the task was from a sampling environment, or a probability environment. Students tended to neglect variability…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Probability, Sampling, Student Attitudes
van der Westhuizen, Gert J. – 1993
This paper presents a review of research projects recently completed by teachers in South Africa. The purpose is to describe the nature of these projects and to see what trends emerge from an analysis of the location, purpose, design, methodology, and findings of the projects. Five different projects in which more than 70 teachers have been…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Educational Trends