Prof M Potgieter |
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Tel: +27 (0)12 420-3095 / 2512 Position: Emeritus Professor NRF Rating: C1 (2021 - 2026) |
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Research focusThe primary focus of my research is effective teaching of chemistry at tertiary level. As one of the basic sciences, chemistry underpins all of the natural and agricultural sciences, health sciences and engineering. South Africa faces serious challenges in the teaching and learning of chemistry because of poor preparation of students at secondary level. My research contributes towards the national effort to deliver more and better qualified graduates in these fields. Current Research Interests
Please visit our Tertiary Chemistry Education research group website.AwardsNational HELTASA commendation award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (2011) PublicationsView all publications here: Google Scholar Selected Journal articlesBette Davidowitz and Marietjie Potgieter, Use of the Rasch measurement model to explore the relationship between content knowledge and topic-specific pedagogical content knowledge for organic chemistry, Int J Sci Educ, 2016, 38 (9), 1483 - 1503. DOI: 10.1080/09500693.2016.1196843. Kgadi Mathabathe and Marietjie Potgieter, Manifestations of Metacognitive Activity during the Collaborative Planning of Chemistry Practical Investigations, Int J Sci Educ, 2017, 39(11), 1465-1484. DOI: 10.1080/09500693.2017.1336808. Angelique Kritzinger, Juan-Claude Lemmens and Marietjie Potgieter, Learning strategies for first year biology: Towards moving the ‘Murky Middle’, CBE-Life Sciences Education, 2018, 17:ar42, 1-13. DOI: 10.1187/cbe.17-10-0211. Marietjie Potgieter, Lynne Pilcher, Rethabile Tekane, Ina Louw and Lizelle Fletcher, Lessons learnt from teaching and learning during disruptions, in Research and Practice in Chemistry Education, Advances from the 25th IUPAC International Conference on Chemistry Education 2018, M. Schultz et al. (Eds.), Springer, 2019, p89 - 107, DOI 10.1007/978-981-13-6998-8. Christine Mundy and Marietjie Potgieter, Refining Process-oriented Guided Inquiry Learning for Chemistry Students in an Academic Development Programme, African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2019, 23(2), 145 - 156, DOI: 10.1080/18117295.2019.1622223. Rethabile Tekane, Lynne A. Pilcher and Marietjie Potgieter, Blended learning in a second year organic chemistry class: students’ perceptions and preferences of the learning support, Chem Educ Res Pract, 2020, 21(1), 24 – 36. DOI: 10.1039/c9rp00099b. Christine Mundy and Marietjie Potgieter, Hands-On Spectroscopy: Inside and Outside the First-Year Laboratory, J Chem Educ, 2020, 97(6), 1549-1555. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b01050. Rethabile Tekane and Marietjie Potgieter, Insights from training a blind student in biological sciences, South African Journal of Science, 2021, in press. Gledhill, Irvy; Okeke, Francisca; Ouedraogo, Marie Francoise; Potgieter, Maria, The Gender Gap among scientists in Africa, Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2020-1208. Selected Conference proceedingsMarietjie Potgieter, “Chemistry – the long walk to agency”, Plenary lecture at the Gordon Research Conference on Chemistry Education Research and Practice, Lewiston, Maine, June 2015. Marietjie Potgieter, Lessons learnt from teaching and learning during disruptions, Plenary lecture at the International Conference on Chemistry Education, Sydney, Australia, July 2018. Marietjie Potgieter, Enhancing student success in tertiary mathematics: the multiple dimensions of institutional responsiveness, keynote address at the Siyaphumelela conference, Sandton, June 2019. Marietjie Potgieter, Chemistry Education and Global Development: Challenges and Way Forward, Opening plenary address at the joint 4th African Conference on Research in Chemistry Education (ACRICE) and 42nd Annual International Conference of the Nigerian Chemical Society (Eko 2019), Lagos, Nigeria, September 2019.
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