Prof. Danri Delport
Prof. Danri Delport

POSITION
Associate Professor
QUALIFICATIONS
PhD
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Teaching Introductory statistics, Numeracy
PUBLICATIONS
  • Delport, D.H. & Van der Merwe, A.  2006.  Credibility Intervals for the Ratio of Means of Two Populations which contains zero and log-normally distributed observations.  Journal for New Generation Sciences 4(2):66-78.
  • Delport, D.H.  2019.  Students’perception about a new digital learning tool at a South African University.  South African Journal of Higher Education 33(5):25-41. 
  • Delport, D.H.  2020.  Understanding and interpreting measures of central location, dispersion and confidence intervals in Pandemics.  Administratio Publica, 28(4):21-40.
  • Delport, D.H.  Teaching first-year statistics students with COVID-19 real-world data: Graphs.  Teaching Statistics.  Published online, 43(1):36-43. http://doi.org/10.1111/test.12245 (2020)
  • Delport, D.H.  2021.  There is more than meets the eye:  Success stories of a visual impaired student and lecturer.  Inklusi Journal of Disability Studies, 8(1):1-14.  https://doi.org/10.14421/ijds.080101
  • Delport, D.H.  2021.  The impact of Maths Manipulatives as a multi-sensory teaching technique in Statistics, Journal of Mathematics Education, Science and Technology (MUST), 6(2)186-206.
  • Delport, D.H.  How the number line can be used to promote students’ understanding about the normal distribution, Numeracy, 15(2), 2022.  https://doi.org/10.14421/ijds.080101
  • Delport, D.H.  Can multiple WhatsApp groups reduce message flooding during the COVID-19 pandemic period?  International Journal of Distance Education and E-Learning,  2022
  • Swart, A.J. & Delport, D.H.  2022.  Increasing student preparedness to study Engineering:  A case study in South Africa.  International Journal of Engineering Education, 38(4):1-8. 
  • Delport, DH. 2022.  Students’ Perception Towards Instructor-Developed Screencasts as a Stand-Alone Method of Instruction on WhatsApp in an Introductory Statistics Course During COVID-19, South African Journal of Higher Education, 36(5):17-36.
Delport, D.H.  2023.  The development of statistical literacy among students: Analyzing messages in media articles with Gal’s worry questions. Teaching Statistics. Published Online, 45:61-68
PRESENTED CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS
  • Venter, M.I. & Delport, D.H.  2013.  Consumer’s perceptions and attitude toward Mobile advertisements on Facebook:  An investigation among the young in South Africa.  Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference on World Wide Web Applications, Cape Town, South Africa.
  • Presented a paper at the 45th Annual International Conference of SASE:  3-5 October 2018.  An Evaluation study to test the effectiveness of a new digital learning tool on Numeracy students at the Central University of Technology, Free State, CUT.
  • Presented a paper at the 10th International Conference on Educational Research, ICER 2017:  9-12 September 2017, The impact of a classroom intervention on first-year university students learning in a mathematics and statistics related subject.
  • Presented a paper at the 5th Annual International Conference on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in Higher Education, Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein, “Teaching first-year statistics students with covid-19 real world data: graphs”,  2020
  • Presented a paper at the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT).  Virtual Teaching and Learning Conference, Disrupting normalities in teaching and learning in a VUCA world.  17-18 August 2022.  Students’ perception towards instructor-developed screencasts as a stand-alone method of instruction on WhatsApp in an Introductory Statistics course during COVID-19.
  • Presented a virtual paper at the 15th International Conference on Educational Research (ICER).  The Faculty of Education, Khon Kaen University, Thailand, 2 – 4 September 2022.  Testing a popular internet brain dominance test on Numeracy students.  
  • Presented a paper at the 7th Annual International Conference on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in Higher Education, Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein, 6 – 7 October 2022.  Can Multiple WhatsApp groups reduce message flooding during the COVID-19 Pandemic Period
  • Co-presenting a paper at the 7th Annual International Conference on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in Higher Education, Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein, 6 – 7 October 2022.  Improving student preparedness to study engineering:  A case study from South Africa. (Prof AJ Swart & Dr DH Delport).
  • Co-presenting a paper at the WEEF & GEDC Conference, Cape Town, 28 November – 1 December 2022.  Evaluating student preparedness to continue studying engineering:  A case study from South Africa. (Prof AJ Swart & Dr DH Delport).
Presented a paper at the 2nd World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, London, United Kingdom, 25-26 May 2023 (ONLINE).  Turning online classes into communities with WhatsApp.
Presented a paper at the Amsterdam International Conference on Teaching, Education & Learning, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 07-08 August 2023 (ONLINE).  The use of Math Manipulatives as Multi-Sensory Tools is Introductory Statistics Courses.

Contact Us
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  • Tel:
  • ddelport@cut.ac.za