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Learners and students alike are always seeking alternative ways of learning and understanding the concepts of most Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) courses. Among these clusters of STEM courses, a sub-branch of Physics has been the most challenging one for both learners at the school level as well as for students at the university level. The challenge is particularly prominent in the first few years of their university experience.
In an endeavour to deal with this challenge, lecturers are forever seeking ways and strategies of effective methods that could be used to make the delivery of this course easy and manageable for students. Peer teaching has been adopted as one of the methods to be explored in teaching a specific topic to a specific group of first-year students, to enhance their involvement, understanding and ownership of their learning. This work reports on the findings of this method as investigated on to first-year students at the University of Johannesburg. Conclusions were drawn from well-analysed data obtained from interviews and questionnaires from students.
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