Leonard Smith
Leonard Smith joined the Centre for Higher Education Development in January, 2000. He is based in the School of Economics where he convenes and teaches a first-year course in microeconomics (ECO1110F) for commerce students who are on the faculty’s academic development programme. He also runs workshops for academic development students in first-year macroeconomics, and second-year microeconomics and macroeconomics.
He holds a B.A. degree from the University of Cape Town, an H.D.E. and B.A. (Hons) degrees in Psychology and Economics (Distinction) from the University of South Africa, and an M.Comm. in Economics (Distinction) from the University of Cape Town.
His research interests are economics education and academic development.
Contact Information
Office: Rm 4.70 Leslie Social Science Building
Contact Phone: +27 21 650 4383
E-mail:
Leonard.Smith@uct.ac.za
Publications
Research
2009: Measuring
the success of an academic development programme: A statistical analysis,
South African Journal of Higher Education, forthcoming.
2009: An analysis of the impact of pedagogic interventions in first-year academic development and mainstream courses in microeconomics, South African Journal
of Economics, March.
2007: A multivariate evaluation of mainstream and academic development courses in first-year microeconomics (with Lawrence Edwards), South African Journal of
Economics, March.
2004: A multivariate evaluation of mainstream and academic development courses in first-year microeconomics at the University of Cape Town: A comparative study. Unpublished Masters dissertation, University of Cape Town.
Books
2007:
Successful Economics, Grade 12 Learner's Book, O.U.P. (with V. Beautement,
N. Samouilhan and I. Thiede) (256 pp.).
2005:
Successful Economics, Grade 11 Learner's Book, O.U.P. (with V. Beautement,
B. de Clercq and J Venter) (256 pp.).
2004:
Economics, O.U.P. (with S. Muradzikwa and P. de Villiers) (477 pp.).
Economics Education
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