Areas of Expertise

• • Physics
• • Physical Science Education
• • Physics Education

Postgraduate Co-Supervision

Master's Students

• • Poppy Molale
  First registered: January 2017
  An investigation into mathematics teaching strategies to improve learner performance: the case of Grade 6 in the JB Marks Sub-District in the North West Province, South Africa.
• • Thembile Mthakathi
  First registered: January 2020
  Implementation of assessment methods and their impact on the performance of Physical Sciences in South African high schools.

Selected Publications

Highlighting recent scholarly contributions.

Journal Articles and Proceedings

• • Phage, I.B. (2018). Undergraduate students' difficulties with motion of hooked objects on inclined and horizontal surfaces. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1512, International Conference on Physics Education (ICPE) 2018, 1-5.
• • Phage, I.B. (2018). Investigating first-year physics student teachers' conceptual understanding of vectors in physics. International Conference on Education and New Developments 2018 Proceedings, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 85-89.
• • Phage, I. (2018). Undergraduate physics students' conceptual understanding in the learning of kinematics using a blended approach. International E-Journal of Advances in Education, 4(11), 199-204.
• • Phage, I. (2018). Investigating first year university physics students' ability to integrate algebraic and kinematics graphs. International Journal of Physics and Chemistry Education, 10(1), 1-25.
  https://doi.org/10.12973/ijpce/81590 →
• • Phage, I.B., Lemmer, M. & Hitge, M. (2017). Probing factors influencing students' graph comprehension regarding four operations in kinematics graphs. African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 21(2), 200-210.

Books and Book Chapters

• • Discipline, Task and Reader Characteristics of Introductory Physics Students' Graph Comprehension in Mathematics and Kinematics. In Theorizing STEM Education in the 21st Century, edited by Kehdinga George Fomunyam.
• • Undergraduate students' difficulties with motion of objects on horizontal and inclined surfaces. In Newest Updates in Physical Science Research.

Conferences, Seminars and Workshops

• • South African Institute of Physics (SAIP), South Africa
• • International Conference on Science and Technology Education (ISTE), Kruger National Park, South Africa
• • Best of Both Worlds (BOB), Bela-Bela, South Africa
• • The World Conference in Physics Education (WCPE), Istanbul, Turkey
• • EDULEARN Conference, Barcelona, Spain

Internationalisation Activities

Community Engagement

• • Schools Interventions in Maths and Science Performance
• • National Science Week
• • Fourth Industrial Revolution STEM Education Discussion Forum
• • Science Forum South Africa
• • SciFest Africa

External Profiles