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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Threshold concepts"”.
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Conceptual understanding of threshold concepts of electrical phenomena: Mental models of senior undergraduates in electrical engineering
… field of study has a set of domain-specific concepts that anyone who desires to work in that field must know and understand. Most students who pursue university degrees in engineering trust that their education is designed to provide them with this knowledge. But does it? In electrical …
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Expansive Learning in FYC: Using Linguistic Discourse Analysis to Measure the Effects of Threshold Concepts in Facilitating Generalization
This study examines how and if threshold concepts enable expansive learning and generalization. Expansive learning and generalization are part of the highly contested conceptions of transfer, and these specific conceptions offer a more complex conception of transfer that deals with knowledge …
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Knowledge in Accounting: Using a threshold concept lens to identify knowledge of financial instruments in an Accounting course, as experienced by students at a South African university
This qualitative research aims to identify the threshold concepts in financial instruments using Meyer and Land's Threshold Concept Framework (2005) and applies the dimension of Semantics and Legitimation Code Theory (Maton, 2014) to analyse whether semantic gravity and semantic density are …
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Troublesome or Threshold? : the experience of difficult concepts in prosthetics
… is experienced as difficult, and potentially threshold, concepts in prosthetics. Prosthetics and orthotics education is an under-researched area and this research assists in filling this gap. Consideration is given to the reasons why students have difficulties in learning certain concepts. …
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Introducing a framework for improving competitive programming education for the Cyprus Olympiad in Informatics
… school students comprehend complex programming concepts and solve challenging tasks in programming competitions. The research aims to enhance the pedagogy and the teaching practice of competitive programming education by introducing and evaluating a framework as a training system and utilising a …
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Beyond Black and White: Transformative Learning and Educator Practice in Australian Indigenous Studies
… learning. This qualitative study uses the threshold concepts framework as a theoretical guide to explore such transformation processes, for learners. Threshold concepts are key ideas, not always explicitly taught, which foster a learners ability to think like a discipline expert. …
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Beyond Black and White: Transformative Learning and Educator Practice in Australian Indigenous Studies
… learning. This qualitative study uses the threshold concepts framework as a theoretical guide to explore such transformation processes, for learners. Threshold concepts are key ideas, not always explicitly taught, which foster a learners ability to think like a discipline expert. …
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Investigation and development of a tangible technology framework for highly complex and abstract concepts
… computational science and technology-based concepts within higher educational institutions (HEI)s. Based on the proposal of a contextually apt TUI architecture, the research describes the design and development of eight distinct TUI frameworks embodying innovate interactive paradigms through …
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Mitigating Social Risk in the Extractive Sector: Developing Intercultural Competence as a Tool for Negotiating Western-Indigenous Perspectives within the Undergraduate Mining Engineering Curriculum
… than in cultural values. Three, sequential, threshold concepts are identified as impeding development of intercultural competence: Awareness and Acknowledgement of Different Forms of Knowledge; Recognition that Value Systems are a Function of Culture; Respect for varied perceptions of Social …
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A standards-based grading model to predict students' success in a first-year engineering course
… tested models. This study identified possible threshold concepts and learning objectives that are important to students’ success in the course, and learning objectives that are not correlated with student success in the course.</p>
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Using Writing Assignments to Promote Conceptual Knowledge Development in Engineering Statics
Learning of threshold concepts in engineering science courses such as statics has traditionally been a difficult and critical juncture for engineering students. Research and other systematic efforts to improve the teaching of statics in recent years range widely, from development of courseware and …
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Drinking from the well : developing social work practice with service users and carers
… user involvement on the understanding of key threshold concepts by social work students and looks to the future in regard to how understanding in this important field can benefit from further theorizing.
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The Nature and Perceptions of Critical Reflective Writing within Hands-On Technology and Engineering Design-Based Learning
… (CR) transformative for them. CR about threshold experiences relates to changes of perspective useful for managing design thinking in future design-related challenges. In addition to improved self-regulation during DT, learners experiencing critical incidents understand domain content …
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Multidisciplined Individuals: Defining the Genre
… learning environment. The study was able to use Threshold Concepts (Meyer and Land, 2003) to demonstrate the multidisciplinary individual development process. Moreover, having examined the social interaction learning processes the potential negative impacts of Communities of Practice in …
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The Vernacularisation of Modern Neurosciences: A Case Study of Neuro-Autobiographies in The Age of Complexity
… and materialization of neuroscientific concepts for and by a lay population in order to reframe societys understanding of brain disorders, mental illness, and ultimately the self. Taking this social phenomenon into account, this dissertation examines how neuroscientific knowledge may get …
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Investigating the influence of Automated Programming Assessment Tools on self-reported understanding of threshold programming concepts in Key Stage 4 GCSE computer science students
… Stage 4 students' self-reported understanding of threshold programming concepts within the GCSE Computer Science curriculum. The study mainly evaluates how factors such as motivation, exposure, and inherent student ability interact with using APATs to affect educational outcomes in programming. …