Abstract
In a country where development is currently a high priority, effective and efficient learning presents special imperatives for multicultural higher education. One of man's Christian responsibilities is that of education, and in the changing society of the RSA teaching will require a sensitivity to the variation in individual personalities as well as diversity in culture. Students, however, need to realise that they will have to assume a greater responsibility and accountability for their own learning. Knowledge of their own learning and study strategies and application of these can contribute significantly to the accomplishment of optimal learning. An emphasis shift from improved teaching to improved learning has resulted in a depiction of the learner as an active participant in the teaching-learning act. Various instruments for the assessment of learning and study strategies have been developed since the sixties. Two instruments of the past decade that have been tested at the Potchefstroom University since 1989 are discussed and the adoption o f the LASSI (Learning and Study Strategies Inventory) is motivated.
Highlights
Diversity, multiculturalism, global awareness, global interdependence, cost-effectiveness, assessment, quality assurance and many more concepts became buzz words at the international congress o f the World Association for Educational Research in Israel during July 1993
Multiculturalism, global awareness, global interdependence, cost-effectiveness, assessment, quality assurance and many more concepts became buzz words at the international congress o f the World Association for Educational Research in Israel during July 1993. These issues present special imperatives for higher education and in order to deal with them successfully, accountability for the teaching and learning o f students will be expected from universities, technikons, colleges and other higher educational institutions
God com manded man to be fruitful and to have dominion over every living thing that moves upon the earth (Marshall, 1984:21). This is usually referred to as the cul tural mandate, and Van der Walt (1992:182) points out that this mandate is part of God’s plan of world creation. He points out that the development o f the rich potential of creation can in a sense be seen as a continuation o f God’s crea tive acts, provided that the radical difference between Him and man be kept in mind
Summary
Multiculturalism, global awareness, global interdependence, cost-effectiveness, assessment, quality assurance and many more concepts became buzz words at the international congress o f the World Association for Educational Research in Israel during July 1993. These issues present special imperatives for higher education and in order to deal with them successfully, accountability for the teaching and learning o f students will be expected from universities, technikons, colleges and other higher educational institutions. The purpose of this review is to delineate the educator’s responsibility towards education from a Christian point o f view, to examine possible relationships be tween student study behaviour and academic achievement reported in the lite rature, to describe instruments for assessing students’ learning in general and to motivate the suitability of one o f these instruments for use in multicultural edu cation on South African campuses
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