Research Output
Research output can be seen as the result of research and study which is done by an institutions' research community - usually in publicised form such as an article or book. The NWU-IR drives to raise the visibility of the outputs both locally and internationally to create further awareness of what is being done by the NWU.
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Items published by the Rector, Vice-Rector and other various staff members of the North-West University
Recent Submissions
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The principals’ role in developing social capital for the promotion of healthy school environments
(INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITY STUDIES, 2017)School leaders’ individual and collective efforts are essential in the promotion of healthy school environments. In this respect, the building of social capital is very important for a school’s improvement. The aim of this ... -
Stakeholder perceptions of the determinants of reputation in South African public schools
(Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2014)This research focuses on perceptions of reputation in black township schools in South Africa. The call for the provision of equal education compels school managers to be proactive in their efforts to build reputation for ... -
Leadership styles that would enable school leaders to support the wellbeing of teachers during COVID-19
(Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2021)In times of crisis, people look up to their leaders and expect that they would minimise the impact of the crisis at hand. Leaders in such situations must grasp and address the crisis while maintaining a sense of normality. ... -
Harmonising the efforts of school nurses and teachers in health promotion in schools
(2018)A vital facet that adds value to schools is the partnership between the departments of education and health at national level. At the heart of making this partnership effective in order to achieve its potential is the need ... -
Health-promoting leadership in education : relevance to teachers in township schools
(Front. Educ., 2022)Teachers in township schools are vulnerable because of the low socioeconomic conditions of the communities in which their schools are located. Such factors coupled with personal challenges can have a negative impact on ... -
Ensuring the continuation of school feeding programmes during COVID-19 Pandemic : a case of “New Normal” management
(Bulgarian Comparative Education Society_ERIC, 2021)The issue of school feeding is placed at the top of global agenda currently more than ever before. Challenges imposed by COVID-19 have created an opportunity to broaden and deepen debates focusing around the significance ... -
The need for professional development of educators : a Key to improving the culture of teaching and learning
(Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2014)Professional development of educators is important in advancing educational practices. The resultant collaboration between the district and school (i.e. principals and educators) serve as a foundation for skills acquisition, ... -
Caring principal leadership for the support of teachers leading committees for promotion of healthy school environments
(New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018)Caring lies at the heart of effective enhancement of healthy school environments and good school leadership. This is evidenced by health policies wherein principals are indirectly obliged to act ethically and morally. By ... -
School Community Participation and School Health Promotion : challenges and Opportunities
(Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2014)Issues surrounding community participation at schools are frequently debated in South African education spheres. However, communities remain not totally convinced to participate in health promoting ... -
Roles of school leaders in the management of emergencies caused by natural disasters in Gaborone, Botswana
(Social Sciences, Humanities and Education Journal (SHE Journal), 2023)As natural disasters are becoming more frequent globally, understanding the role of school leaders during such disasters becomes more critical than ever, as they can grind schools to a halt. The fact that some communicable ... -
Factors that promote teacher well-being in the physical environment: the context of a rural high school
(International Journal of Social Science Research and Review, 2023)Although factors that affect teacher well-being are better understood, there is a lack of clarity on factors that bolster teacher well-being in rural schools. This study illustrates the factors that promote teacher well-being ... -
Intergrated Approach to Health Promotion : the South African Schools’ Role
(Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2014)This research sought to examine the schools’ role in integrated health promotion. The key focus was on the understanding of the integrated policies and the implications of practical implementation of such policies in ... -
The value of teaching practice as perceived by Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) students
(AJOL, 2019)The pursuit of excellence in preparing student teachers for the teaching profession is a never-ending endeavour. This study aimed at investigating the value of teaching practice as perceived by the participants, how they ... -
The role of principals in school health promotion in South Africa : a qualitative study
(Emerald Insight, 2021)Purpose – School principals are presumed to be pillars of school health promotion implementation. Their understanding of their role could enhance school health promotion. This study aims to investigate how principals ... -
The Development of a Sepedi Text Generation Model Using Transformers
(Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) 2022, 2022)Text generation is one of the important sub-tasks of natural language generation (NLG), and aims to produce humanly readable text given some input text. Deep learning approaches based on neural networks have been proposed ... -
Developing a full core model of the North Anna Reactor using SCALE 6.2.3, NESTLE and MCNP 6.2
(North West University, 2022)This study presents the development of the modelling for a T-NEWT/NESTLE* lattice-to-nodal diffusion calculation. The reactor selected for this study is the North-Anna (NA) Unit 1 Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) of the ... -
Manifold Characteristics That Predict Downstream Task Performance
(Cornell University, 2022)Pretraining methods are typically compared by evaluating the accuracy of linear classifiers, transfer learning performance, or visually inspecting the representation manifold’s (RM) lowerdimensional projections. We ... -
The Analysis of the Sepedi-English Code-switched Radio News Corpus
(UP Jornals, 2022)Code-switching is a phenomenon that occurs mostly in multilingual countries where multilingual speakers often switch between languages in their conversations. The unavailability of largescale code-switched corpora ... -
A Comparative Study of Graph Neural Network Speed Prediction during Periods of Congestion
(SciTePress, 2022)Traffic speed prediction using deep learning has been the topic of many studies. In this paper, we analyse the performance of Graph Neural Network-based techniques during periods of traffic congestion. We first compare ... -
Minimum phase finite impulse response filter design
(Wiley, 2022)The design of minimum phase finite impulse response (FIR) filters is considered. The study demonstrates that the residual errors achieved by current state‐of‐the‐art design methods are nowhere near the smallest error ...
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