Browsing Faculty of Education by Author "Govender, Irene"
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Increasing self-efficacy in learning to program: exploring the benefits of explicit instruction for problem solving
Govender, Irene; Govender, Desmond W.; Havenga, Marietjie; Mentz, Elsa; Breed, Betty; Dignum, Frank; Dignum, Virginia (2014)The difficulty of learning to program has long been identified amongst novices. This study explored the benefits of teaching a problem solving strategy by comparing students’ perceptions and attitudes towards problem ... -
Supporting information technology teachers through programming professional development: a South African case study
Govender, Desmond Wesley; Govender, Irene; Breed, Betty; Havenga, Marietjie; Mentz, Elsa; Dignum, Frank; Dignum, Virginia (Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2013)Currently, there are many challenges of preparing and supporting secondary school Information Technology (IT) teachers. In addition to increasing the number of IT teachers, there is a need of supporting those teachers to ... -
Views of the use of self–directed metagonitive questioning during pair programming in economically deprived rural schools
Breed, Betty; Menz, Elsa; Havenga, Marietjie; Govender, Irene; Govender, Desmond (Southern African Association for Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (SAARMSTE), 2013)The research reported in this article formed part of an internationally funded project about the empowerment of Information Technology (IT) teachers in economically deprived rural schools in the North-West and KwaZulu-Natal ...