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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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Transdisciplinary Threshold Concepts in Techno-Anthropology
Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher EducationThis paper reflects on a slow re-reading of Maggi Savin-Baden’s “Impact of Transdisciplinary Threshold Concepts on Student Engagement in Problem-Based Learning” and its relation to the author’s experiences as a teacher and curriculum developer in Techno-
Tom Børsen
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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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Disciplines, Outcomes and Purpose in Social Science Education [PDF]
Journal of Social Science Education, 2006 The gap between school knowledge and academic knowledge has long been acknowledged. The division of the curriculum into separate academic subjects has sometimes been blamed for this problem.
Richard Dunnill, Peter Davies
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Exploring Film History by Using Fandom as a Pedagogical Tool
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2021 An exploration of the terrain of how to engage learners effectively and why that matters. Using fan engagement in the field of film history reveals that encouraging learners to self-identify as fans shifts the power balance, placing the learner in the ...
Ellen Wright
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Threshold Concepts in Quantitative Reasoning
NumeracyThe idea of “threshold concepts” has been used to identify discipline-based concepts that are critical to that academic area. Threshold concepts are often difficult for students to assimilate in a meaningful way but, once done, can be powerful for the ...
Judith Canner, Jennifer Clinkenbeard
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‘Making is Thinking’: From Design Fixation to Provocative Competence
ARENA Journal of Architectural Research, 2022 To prepare our students for an unfamiliar future and unknown challenges, it is important that they are experienced in methods and strategies that equip them to manoeuvre in, and find solutions to, complex and unpredictable situations.
Gro Rødne, Leif M. Hokstad
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Threshold Concepts and Information Literacy [PDF]
, 2011 What do we teach when we teach information literacy in higher education? This paper describes a pedagogical approach to information literacy that helps instructors focus content around transformative learning thresholds.
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The Role of Wonder in Students’ Conception of and Learning About Evolution
Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2023 Learning about evolution can be challenging for students, as a full understanding may require them to see the world in new ways, to master a disciplinary language and to understand complex processes.
Bodil Sundberg, Magdalena Andersson
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Automatic histogram threshold using fuzzy measures [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper, an automatic histogram threshold approach based on a fuzziness measure is presented. This work is an improvement of an existing method. Using fuzzy logic concepts, the problems involved in finding the minimum of a criterion function are ...
Bustince, Humberto +3 more
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