Peer-Reviewed Publications

Dr. Alten du Plessis - Complete Record: 19 Publications (1994-2025)

Complete Peer-Reviewed Publications (1994-2025)

Enhancing Student Success Through Well-being: Impact of the Grow a Gritty HERO's Mindset Course

EDULEARN25 Proceedings, pp. 3454-3462, 2025.

Fostering Belonging: The Impact of a Wise Intervention on Diverse Engineering Students

2024 World Engineering Education Forum - Global Engineering Deans Council (WEEF-GEDC), Sydney, Australia, 2024, pp. 1-9, doi: 10.1109/WEEF-GEDC63419.2024.10854938.

A Campus-wide Peer Mentoring System with Wellness-based Face-to-face Mentoring Sessions, Personalised and Gamified Developmental Wellness Websites for Members, and a Sophisticated Tracking System

EDULEARN16 Proceedings, pp. 5651-5660, 2016.

An Evidence-based and Individualized Blended Training Program to Assist High Performance Student Athletes in Developing Well-being and Mental Toughness Skills and Optimizing Academic and Sport Goals

EDULEARN16 Proceedings, pp. 5640-5650, 2016.

Mining Wellness and Performance Data to Identify At-Risk First-Year Engineering Students

World Congress on Engineering 2012 (WCE) - The 2012 International Conference of Data Mining and Knowledge Engineering, London, United Kingdom, 2012: 395-402.

Second Best Paper Overall

Web-based tools to optimise academic performance by facilitating the development of wellness factors that affect academic achievement

Edulearn12. 4th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona, Spain, 2012: 5953-5962.

Combining Brainwave Entrainment, Mind Programming Techniques and Tracking Technologies to Help Individualize and Optimize the Soft Skills Development of University Students

In J. Sanchez & K. Zhang (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (pp. 62-67). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

Individualized Multimedia Interventions to Develop Generic Soft Skills and Improve Throughput Rates of First-Year University Students

In J. Luca & E. Weippl (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2008 (pp. 5610-5617). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

Predicting student performance using artificial neural network analysis

Medical Education 42, 2008.

An investigation of self-appraised cognition versus measured cognition

South African Journal of Higher Education Vol. 21 (4) 2007: pp. 608-627.

U-B-U @ Your World: An Internet-based Modeling, Tracking and Support Framework to Individualize the Unlocking of Human Potential

In J. Nall & R. Robson (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (pp. 45-50). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

CAMP FILE 2005: A Computerized Artificial Mentor and -Psychologist For the Intelligent Learning Environments of Tommorrow

Published in the Conference Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE '99), Chiba, Japan, 4-7 November 1999.

Training Mathematics and Physical Science Teachers via Interactive TV Transmissions and Computer Based Tutorials

In J. Price et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (pp. 143-146). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

Multimedia Based M*A*S*T*E*R Teaching and Individualized Learning of Mathematics and Science

In Proceedings of International Conference on Mathematics / Science Education and Technology 1999 (pp. 91-95). AACE.

GEORGE becomes RECTOR - Linear Programming Tutor Extended to Also Include Other Operations Research Techniques

Published in the Conference Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE '97), Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, 2-6 December 1997.

A Fuzzy Expert and Decision-Making System to Individualize Computer-based Tutoring

Published in the Conference Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (EuroAIED '96), 30 September - 2 October 1996, Lisbon, Portugal.

Student Modeling and Tutoring Strategies in an Intelligent Linear Programming Tutor

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on User Modeling, 2-5 January 1996, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, United States of America.

A Conceptual Framework for the Development of Intelligent Computer-based Educational Software in Operations Research

Conference Proceedings of an International Conference on Computer Assisted Education and Training in Developing Countries (CAETDC '94), 10-14 October 1994, ESCOM Conference Centre, Midrand.