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Transformative and troublesome? Students’ and professional programmers’ perspectives on difficult concepts in programming [PDF]
, 2019 Programming skills are an increasingly desirable asset for higher education students across disciplines; however, learning to program continues to be difficult to master for many students.
Coate, Kelly +2 more
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Investigating Proportional Reasoning in a University Quantitative Literacy Course
Numeracy, 2016 The ability to reason with proportions is known to take a long time to develop and to be difficult to learn. We regard proportional reasoning (the ability to reason about quantities in relative terms) as a threshold concept for academic quantitative ...
Vera Frith, Pam Lloyd
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Threshold Concepts and Undergraduate Mathematics Teaching [PDF]
PRIMUS, 2016 AbstractTraditionally, many undergraduate mathematics courses have been defined in terms of mathematical content and the techniques in which students should become proficient or theorems they should be able to prove. This can result in a reliance on shallow or rote learning by students, despite the fact that the main goal of a mathematics lecturer1 is ...
Breen, Sinéad, O'Shea, Ann
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Doctorates in the dark: Threshold concepts and the improvement of doctoral supervision [PDF]
, 2014 The overall goal of this qualitative research case study into doctoral writing was to determine if there were knowable threshold concepts and, if so, to develop effective strategies for helping students overcome them.
Johnson, E. Marcia
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Towards Low-Threshold, Real-Time Solar Neutrino Detectors [PDF]
, 1999 We discuss an alternative approach to the detection of solar neutrinos using a coarsely segmented detector based on inverse-beta decay onto $^{160}$Gd or $^{176}$Yb.
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Neither teacher-centred nor student-centred: threshold concepts and research partnerships
Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2010 In this paper I argue that pedagogic research organised around the investigation of threshold concepts offers a fresh way of thinking about research collaboration with students, academics and educational developers. I will first introduce the basic ideas
Glynis Cousin
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Communications in Information Literacy, 2022 This article describes the development and validation of the Information Literacy Reflection Tool (ILRT), a metacognitive self-assessment for use with undergraduate researchers.
Sara Robertson +3 more
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Proportional reasoning as a threshold to numeracy at university: A framework for analysis
Pythagoras, 2013 There is a generally acknowledged need for students to be quantitatively literate in an increasingly quantitative world. This includes the ability to reason critically about data in context.
Pam Lloyd, Vera Frith
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Frontiers in Education, 2021 The ongoing digitalization of educational resources and the use of the internet lead to a steady increase of potentially available learning media. However, many of the media which are used for educational purposes have not been designed specifically for ...
Andy Lücking +5 more
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, 2019 Research suggests that it is not uncommon for doctoral candidates to have difficulty with understanding the various concepts in learning to be a researcher. In light of such research, this chapter addresses various strategies that PhD supervisors might adopt to assist doctoral candidates in learning to be researchers.
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