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Teaching physics concepts without (much) mathematics: View through a concept-index, threshold concept lens
(2018)CONTEXT In 2018, the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Waikato has introduced an option for first-year physics study that does not require achievement at high-school physics and mathematics. This ... -
Why did they do it? Moral sensibilities, motivating reasons, and degrees of moral blame in culpable homicide
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Humans have a long evolutionary history of violence. The psychological mechanisms underlying aggression can be viewed as “solutions” (albeit undesirable solutions) to any one of a number of adaptive problems that exist in ... -
Southwest Pacific Absolute Plate Kinematic Reconstruction Reveals Major Cenozoic Tonga-Kermadec Slab Dragging
(American Geophysical Union, 2018)Tectonic plates subducting at trenches having strikes oblique to the absolute subducting plate motion undergo trench‐parallel slab motion through the mantle, recently defined as a form of “slab dragging.” We investigate ... -
The application of ICT in the music classroom: Factors that influence technology integration in New Zealand secondary schools.
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This thesis investigates how New Zealand secondary school music teachers used ICT in their music programmes between 2008 and 2012. It started from the assumption that the adoption of technology in secondary music classrooms ... -
Evaluation of land in Wairoa District for potential horticultural development
(The University of Waikato, 2018)The Wairoa District, on the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand has less horticultural development than areas to the north and south. The objective of this study was to provide information to help inform landowners ...
