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The City Council's Non-European Affairs Committee honoured me in August, 1957, by permitting me to appear before it to present a research report on the transference of Coloured people to its new housing estates. The report was offered verbally, but I was asked to prepare and submit a report confined to 34 households then under eviction orders: this report on "Non-payment of rent by Coloured householders in the new housing schemes of Grahamstown Municipality" was considered at a later date by Council and various recommendations were adopted. Representatives of the City Council discussed the possible methods of meeting the situation which had arisen with Central Government officers. It was agreed later that I be asked to develop a systematic study of the problems on a wider scale and that this report be submitted to the Central Government on its completion. In conformity with this request I submit the present report. ; Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)

ABSTRACTConsistent with educational theory, research studies in accounting education substantiate claims of the benefits associated with active learning. This paper describes how I integrate research into an undergraduate accounting course using a pedagogical approach which fosters active learning. Throughout the course, students read and discuss excerpts from accounting journal articles related to class topics. These readings are intended to enhance students' understanding of the topics and develop their awareness of how accounting research and accounting practice are related. After becoming familiar with research articles and the research process, students are then challenged to complete a research study following the scientific method, in which they investigate research questions corresponding to the course content and test hypotheses using archival data. Results from a survey created to assess this research experience reveal that 94 percent of respondents indicated this project substantially improved their level of knowledge, skills, and abilities related to accounting. I supply instructional tools for faculty interested in implementing a similar program.

Prepared by John B. Johnson and Irving J. Lewis for the Council of state governments. cf. Foreword. ; Mode of access: Internet.

ABSTRACTThis study examines "test-wiseness" rules-of-thumb accounting students may use when they cannot answer a multiple-choice question. The effectiveness of rules (whether students comprehend and exploit them) is poorly understood, but they rely largely on flaws in question design. After identifying 11 relevant rules, we first utilize graduate research assistants in an experiment to test the rules' efficacy. Participants successfully use three rules to answer questions on unfamiliar material and are able to discriminate as to the rules' usefulness. To assess general familiarity with and belief in the rules, we survey undergraduate accounting majors at two universities. They demonstrate well-formed ideas of the relative usefulness, which are strongly correlated between universities and moderately correlated with the experimental participants' beliefs. The results illuminate issues that question writers should consider, to avoid vulnerability to test-wiseness or even turn the rules to their advantage when composing questions.

Ex-military personnel who are recovering from addictions are more likely to succeed in recovery through veteran specific services, new research has revealed. The research, carried out by Sheffield Hallam University's Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice on behalf of charities Addaction and Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT), looked at the work of the Right Turn project, which has been developed to support veterans who are recovering from addiction and helping them reintegrate in to civilian life. Addaction's Right Turn initiative, the first of its kind in the UK when launched, is a pioneering project operating on the premise that the comradeship underpinning military life can be re-directed to support recovery from addictions and desistance from crime. The report presents the findings from the two year evaluation.