Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences Tel: +27 12 420 3128 E-mail:[email protected]
Research Interests:
Curriculum design and development.
Student Engagement techniques and tools.
Use of Bloom’s taxonomy in the facilitation of learning, development of learning outcomes, as well as compilation of assessment questions.
E-tutoring.
Assessment analysis of formative and summative assessments.
Facilitation of learning with technology tools.
Large class teaching.
Publications:
Maré WPC; Crous MJ. A theoretical perspective on the furtherance of entrepreneurship and business acumen amongst secondary school pupils. 8th Annual Conference of the International Council for Small Business (Southern Africa) 23-24 April 1995.
Crous MJ; Van Amerom WPC. Building for the future by teaching entrepreneurship in South African Schools. Euro PME Etudes Et Recherche 2nd Conference Internationale in Rennes/St Malo France. ISBN Nr 2-9515566-0-8. 30 September - 2 October 1999.
Van Amerom, WPC. 2005. “Active/interactive learning facilitation in large classes.” Journal for New Generation Sciences Volume 3 Number 2.
Van Amerom, WPC. 2006. The Revolutionised Closed-book examination paper. Interim 5 (2).
Van Amerom, WPC. 2009. How lecturers beliefs can shape their teaching. Interim. Special Edition.
Van Amerom, WPC & Louw, I. 2015. Piloting clickers in the Faculty of Law. Poster presentation at the Flexible Futures Conference: Shaping E-learning for Higher Education. Hosted by the University of Pretoria, CSIR, 9 November.
Van Amerom, WPC. 7 May 2015. Setting the exam paper with assessment principles in mind. Teaching and Learning Brown Bag of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. University of Pretoria.
Van Amerom, WPC. 3 September 2015. Engaging Students in Learning. Teaching and Learning Brown Bag of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. University of Pretoria.
Current activities:
Implementation of an e-tutoring system in the Faculty of EMS at UP.
Implementation of learning communities in the Faculty of EMS at UP.
Professional development aimed at assisting lecturers in improving their instructional classroom and assessment practices.
Developing online PODs for the use of educational technology tools in the facilitation of learning.
Developing a quality assurance framework for assessment practices in the Faculty of EMS.
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