List of Abstracts
(In alphabetical order as per author’s surname and/or first author’s surname)
| Title | Author(s) | Link to paper/presentation | |
| 1. | Addressing the school-university physics practical skills gap | I. Basson | Paper |
| 2. | ‘Stacked qualifications’: The case for a ‘working class highway’ to intermediate and high level skills | A. Bird | Paper |
| 3. | Smoothing the transition? Developing a philosophical foundation for Chemistry | M.A.L. Blackie | Paper |
| 4. | The impact of NSC mathematics on student performance in mathematics in first-year engineering programmes: Where does the gap lie? | B.I. Collier-Reed, N. Wolmarans and R. Smit | Paper – Presentation |
| 5. | To stream or not to stream: An academic development perspective | T.S. Craig, K. Nathoo | Presentation |
| 6. | How ready are OBE trained students for university mathematics? | J. C. Engelbrecht, A. F. Harding | Presentation |
| 7. | Design of the Engineering Augmented Degree Programme at the University of Pretoria | D.J. Grayson | Paper – Presentation |
| 8. | ”Becoming a physicist’: The implementation of a research based physics course in an extended curriculum programme | M.S. Herbert, T.S. Volkwyn, R. Maclons, C.H. Conana and D. Marshall | Paper |
| 9. | Strategic and conceptual challenges experienced by first-year students while attempting to solve problems that require mathematical modelling | C. Human, A. Hofmeyr, P. Human, N. Makae, and P. van Koersveld | Paper |
| 10. | Comparability of NSC mathematics scores and former SC mathematics scores: How consistent is the signal across time? | K. Hunt, M. Ntuli, N.A. Rankin, V. Schöer and C. Sebastiao | Paper – Presentation |
| 11. | Language in Engineering and the Built Environment: examining student problems and impacts | E. Hurst | Paper – Presentation |
| 12. | A Framework for the appropriate placement of first year students in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Programmes at a comprehensive South African Higher Education Institution (HEI) | M Jacobs and G.P de Bruin | Paper – Presentation |
| 13. | Foundation Science Student Performance explained. Insight gained at UKZN | N.F. Kirby | Paper – Presentation |
| 14. | Integrating Thinking Skills into Subject Content to Improve Engineering Learners’ Problem Solving Abilities | K. Loji | Paper – Presentation |
| 15. | Toward improving the Academic Performance of National Diploma Mechanical Engineering Thermodynamics 2 students | C. Louwa, & K.J. Mammen | Presentation |
| 16. | From Eersterivier to a PhD: Bridging the Gap | S. Malan; M. Marnewick; E Lourens | Paper |
| 17. | Minding the gap: Identifying risk profiles of first-time entrants for the Diploma in Nature Conservation at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology | B. Mckenzie and J.I. Kioko | Paper – Presentation |
| 18. | A study of the possible existence, causes and effects of the Mathematical Knowledge Gap between High School and First Year University MathematicsProgrammes and Possible Remedies for the Situation at UNIVEN: A case study | S. Moyo | Paper |
| 19. | Conceptual gain in first-year chemistry: is the gap addressed effectively? | M. Potgieter | Paper |
| 20. | Student voice in ‘the transition to university’ problem | R. Smit and N. Wolmarans | Paper – Presentation |
| 21. | From Hero to Zero … and back? The journey of first year access students in mainstream programmes | M.M.Vosloo and S. Blignaut | Paper – Presentation |
| 22. | Minding gaps within ‘the bubble’: challenges of unusually many underprepared electrical engineering students | S. Winberg | Paper – Presentation |
| 23. | Flexible pacing: Aiding students to adapt to the complexities of multidisciplinary Higher Education | K. Wolff | Paper – Presentation |
| 24. | Student conceptions of civil engineering in an Engineering 1 course | N. Wolmarans and C. Shaw | Paper |
| 25. | Responsiveness to the ‘Academic Literacies Gap’ in Engineering – how far have we come and where to from here? | C. Jacobs | Paper |