TY - GEN
T1 - Identifying threshold concepts
T2 - 9th Annual International Computing Education Research Conference, ICER 2013
AU - Shinners-Kennedy, Dermot
AU - Fincher, Sally
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Since they were first described by Meyer and Land [1] the classification of concepts as "threshold" concepts has engaged many researchers, including a number of CS researchers. A variety of approaches have been employed to identify concepts that could be classified as threshold concepts, with varying success. Our own frustrations in identifying them led us to identify shortcomings in commonly-used approaches, and to the promising possibilities offered by a new direction. We describe that new direction here, and detail the path that led us to it.
AB - Since they were first described by Meyer and Land [1] the classification of concepts as "threshold" concepts has engaged many researchers, including a number of CS researchers. A variety of approaches have been employed to identify concepts that could be classified as threshold concepts, with varying success. Our own frustrations in identifying them led us to identify shortcomings in commonly-used approaches, and to the promising possibilities offered by a new direction. We describe that new direction here, and detail the path that led us to it.
KW - Hindsight bias
KW - PCK
KW - Threshold concepts
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84883524320&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2493394.2493396
DO - 10.1145/2493394.2493396
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84883524320
SN - 9781450322430
T3 - ICER 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research
SP - 9
EP - 17
BT - ICER 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research
Y2 - 12 August 2013 through 14 August 2013
ER -