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Dr Anitia Lubbe
Dr Anitia Lubbe
Research Unit Self-Directed Learning, Faculty of Education, North-West University,
Potchefstroom, South Africa
Anitia Lubbe is a senior Life Sciences lecturer at the Faculty of Education of the North-West University, South Africa. Anitia has been working in the field of teacher education for the past twelve years, and her research has a distilled focus on how assessment, assessment literacy, and cooperative learning can influence the development of self-directed learning skills. She is also part of the Executive and Scientific Committee of the Research Unit Self-Directed Learning (SDL), and she is the subarea leader with the Research Unit for Assessment to support self-directed learning subarea. Assessment to support SDL should move from assessment of learning to learning through assessment, utilizing the power and potential of assessment as pedagogy. As part of her Ph.D., she embedded the five basic principles of cooperative learning (positive interdependence, individual accountability, promotive interaction, small group/social skills, and group processing) into assessment activities (cooperative learning-embedded assessment). Anitia was awarded the EASA Award in the Postgraduate Doctoral Medal 2021. She is involved in postgraduate supervision and has published at a national level. She is on the editorial board of two international journals (Literature Reviews in Education and Human Services, and the International Journal of Self-Directed Learning). She is currently part of several research projects specifically focusing on assessment for self-directed learning and is part of a team who developed and presented a Commonwealth of Learning MOOC (Self-directed learning for higher education) during May 2023. Her fierce determination to bring about the much-needed change in the assessment environment, especially in South Africa, brought about several publications, co-editing an SDL book on assessment (Learning through assessment: An approach towards self-directed learning, 2021 - this publication is nominated for the Academy of Science of South Africa’s Humanities Book Award 2022, and was awarded the AOSIS Laureatus 2023 Award for the book that was most downloaded on books.aosis.co.za from January 2021 to December 2022 in the scholarly domain Humanities), an invited keynote at an international SDL symposium, national and international conference presentations, local radio interviews, as well as workshop presentations.