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Threshold Concepts in Medical Education [PDF]

MedEdPublish, 2018
Background - The theory of Threshold Concepts (TC) proposes that there are ideas necessary for a student to learn which enable them to think like a professional. Studies of TC in higher education have appeared since 2003. Studies in medical education are
Virginia Randall, Robert Brooks, Agnes Montgomery, Lauren McNally   +3 more
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Threshold concepts in prosthetics. [PDF]

Prosthet Orthot Int, 2017
Curriculum documents identify key concepts within learning prosthetics. Threshold concepts provide an alternative way of viewing the curriculum, focussing on the ways of thinking and practicing within prosthetics. Threshold concepts can be described as an opening to a different way of viewing a concept.
Hill S.
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Threshold concepts and metalearning capacity [PDF]

International Review of Economics Education, 2009
This study operationalises the empowering concept of metalearning in the specific context of engagement with a threshold concept. An experience of metalearning was constituted in two parts.
Jan H. F. Meyer, Paul Latreille, Sophie C. Ward   +2 more
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Unlocking expertise: the application of threshold concepts in scenario simulations in undergraduate clinical teaching [PDF]

Frontiers in Medicine
BackgroundThreshold concepts, as a transformative learning approach, are crucial for mastering new knowledge and skills. They help students change their understanding of subjects and promote the development of professional competencies.
Dandan Ma, Ning Su, Rui Hou, Yanyan Wan, Zhuoran He, Jinzhong Lan, Guizhen Xiao, Mian Peng   +7 more
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Expanding the concept of ‘threshold concepts’: threshold concepts for life

Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
News and media reports indicate that the perceived value of university education is declining amongst students – one of the indicators being an increase in apprenticeships. As educators, we need to identify the reasons for this and ask ourselves whether
Kosha Mehta
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Threshold concepts and core concepts in pharmacology education: A commentary [PDF]

Pharmacology Research & Perspectives
Clare Guilding, Paul J White
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Threshold Concepts

, 2022
Cornelia Kenneweg und Matthias Wiemer stellen in ihrem Beitrag das Threshold Concept Framework (TCF) vor und erläutern, wie es wissenschaftsdidaktische Fragestellungen bereichern kann. Das TCF bietet einen Erklärungsansatz, wie sich der Zugang zu Wissenschaft und wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen als Aneignungsprozess von Begriffen und als Konstruktion ...
Anne Cornelia Kenneweg, Matthias Wiemer
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Aha! Centering Student Voices to Better Understand an Instruction Program

Communications in Information Literacy, 2023
This article describes using aha moments as an assessment approach to gain a better understanding of student learning in relation to the six frames in the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher ...
Andrea Wilcox Brooks, Cathy Craig, Meredith Riney   +2 more
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Perspective as a Threshold Concept in Business Communication

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
In this article, the authors present the notion of perspective as a threshold concept in business communication. Using an SoTL framework, the researchers explore the effect of teaching threshold concepts in a summary writing assignment in a foundational ...
Kristen Getchell, Paula Lentz
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Threshold Concepts in Literary Studies

Teaching & Learning Inquiry: The ISSOTL Journal, 2019
This essay proposes a series of “threshold concepts” for literary studies: text, meaning, context, form, and reading. Each term carries both commonsense understandings and disciplinary understandings, which differ from each other drastically.
Paul T. Corrigan
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