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Threshold Concepts: Undergraduate Teaching, Postgraduate Training and Professional Development
A short introduction and bibliography
The Meyer and Land Threshold Concept
“The idea of threshold concepts emerged from a UK national
research project into the possible characteristics of strong
teaching and learning environments in the disciplines for
undergraduate education (Enhancing Teaching-Learning
Environments in Undergraduate Courses). In
pursuing this research in the field of economics, it became clear
to Erik Meyer and Ray Land [1-9, 10-16], that certain
concepts were held by economists to be central to the mastery of their subject. These concepts, Meyer and Land argued, could be described as ‘threshold’ ones because they have certain features in common.”
Over the past decade this concept has been embraced by many disciplines outside economics; indeed the above quote is from Glynis Cousin’s excellent short introduction to the concept written for earth scientists. The threshold concept has been seen as a valuable tool, not only in facilitating students’ understanding of their subject, but in aiding the rational development of curricula in rapidly expanding arenas where there is a strong tendency to overload the curriculum (Cousin, [7, 9]). This web page will describe, briefly, the characteristics of a threshold concept and list selected references to the work of those examining its value in a broad range of disciplines.
Features of a Threshold
‘Threshold Concepts’ may be considered to be “akin to passing through a portal” or “conceptual gateway” that opens up “previously inaccessible way[s] of thinking about something” (Meyer and Land [9]).
Transformative: Once understood, a threshold concept changes the way in which the student views the discipline. More ...
Troublesome: Threshold concepts are likely to be troublesome for the student. Perkins has suggested that knowledge can be troublesome e.g. when it is counter-intuitive, alien or seemingly incoherent. More ...
Irreversible: Given their transformative potential, threshold concepts are also likely to be irreversible, i.e. they are difficult to unlearn. More ...
Integrative: Threshold concepts, once learned, are likely to bring together different aspects of the subject that previously did not appear, to the student, to be related. More ...
Bounded: A threshold concept will probably delineate a particular conceptual space, serving a specific and limited purpose. More ...
Discursive: Meyer and Land [10] suggest that the crossing of a threshold will incorporate an enhanced and extended use of language. More ...
Reconstitutive: "Understanding a threshold concept may entail a shift in learner subjectivity, which is implied through the transformative and discursive aspects already noted. Such reconstitution is, perhaps, more likely to be recognised initially by others, and also to take place over time (Smith)". More ...
Liminality: Meyer and Land [12] have likened the crossing of the pedagogic threshold to a ‘rite of passage’ (drawing on the ethnographical studies of Gennep and Turner in which a transitional or liminal space has to be traversed; “in short, there is no simple passage in learning from ‘easy’ to
‘difficult’; mastery of a threshold concept often involves messy
journeys back, forth and across conceptual terrain. (Cousin [7])”. More ...
Examples of the threshold concept must be transformative and involve a traverse through a liminal space. They are likely to be characterised by many of, but not necessarily all of, the other features listed above.
REFERENCES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, VIDEO AND PODCAST PRESENTATIONS
Click on the author name for a link to a list of the author’s papers on threshold concepts and, where available, a link to the author’s home page.
Overview of the Threshold Concept
1.
Barradell, S. (2013) The identification of threshold concepts: a review of theoretical complexities and methodological challenges,
Higher Education, 65 (2), 265-276.
Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning (2010)
Edited by Jan H. F. Meyer, Ray Land and Caroline Baillie Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, 2010
[Educational Futures: Rethinking Theory and Practice, Peters, M.A. (Ed), Volume 42]
The majority of chapters in this book are developments of talks first presented at the Threshold Concepts Conference: from theory to practice,
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 18th - 20th June 2008.
4.
Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines (2008)
Edited by Ray Land, Jan H. F. Meyer and Jan Smith Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, 2008
[Educational Futures: Rethinking Theory and Practice, Michael Peters (Ed.), volume 16]
ISBN 978-90-8790-267-4 (paperback), ISBN 978-90-8790-268-1 (hardback).
The majority of chapters in this book are developments of talks first presented at the Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines Symposium, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, 30 August-1 September 2006.
5.
Lucas, U. and Mladenovic, R. (2007) The potential of threshold concepts: an emerging framework for educational research and practice,
London Review of Education, Vol. 5, No. 3, November 2007, pp. 237-248
Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge (2006)
Edited by Jan H. F. Meyer and Ray Land Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, 2006
ISBN10: 0-415-37430-8, ISBN13: 978-0-415-37430-9.
9.
Cousin, G. (2008) Threshold Concepts: Old Wine in New Bottles or New Forms of Transactional Inquiry,
in: Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Smith, J., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp 261-272, [book details].
A streamed video of Glynis Cousin’s presentation at the Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines Symposium, Glasgow, September, 2006 that led to this paper can be accessed at http://video.strath.ac.uk/06/140-06-04.wvx [last accessed 5/06/09].
The papers cited in this section track the inception and development of the Threshold Concept framework by Erik Meyer and Ray Land with seminal contributions by Peter Davies and Glynis Cousin.
Meyer, J.H.F. and Land, R. (2005) Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge (2): epistemological considerations and a conceptual framework for teaching and learning,
Higher Education, 49 (3), 373-388.
Meyer, J.H.F. and Land, R. (2006) Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: Issues of liminality,
In: Meyer, J.H.F. and Land, R. (eds.), Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge, London and New York: Routledge, pp 19-32, [book details].
14.
Meyer, J.H.F., Land, R. and Davies, P. (2006) Implications of threshold concepts for course design and evaluation,
In: Meyer, J.H.F. and Land, R. (eds.), Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge, London and NewYork: Routledge, pp 195-206, [book details].
15.
Meyer, J.H.F., Land, R. and Davies, P. (2008) Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge (4): Issues of variation and variability,
in: Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Smith, J., (eds), Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp 59-74, [book details].
16.
Land, R. and Meyer, J. H. F. (2010) Threshold concepts and troublesome: Dynamics of Assessment,
in: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Baillie, C., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 61-79, [book details].
Video and Podcast Presentations on the Threshold Concept
Land, R. (2010) Threshold Concepts and Issues of Interdisciplinarity,
Featured Lecture given at the Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Video of the lecture: http://tv.unsw.edu.au/video/professor-ray-land-and-professor-erik-meyer (last accessed 19 October 2010)
Perkins, D. (2010) Threshold Experiences: Moving Concepts from Object to Instrument to Action,
Keynote Lecture given at the Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Video of the lecture: http://tv.unsw.edu.au/video/professor-david-perkins (last accessed 19 October 2010)
Meyer, J.H.F. and Flanagan, M.T. (2010) On epistemes,
Featured Lecture given at the Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Video of the lecture: http://tv.unsw.edu.au/video/professor-erik-meyer-and-dr-mick-flanagan (last accessed 19 October 2010)
Brunetti, K., Hofer, A.R. and Townsend, L. (2009): Through the Looking Glass: Teaching Information Literacy with Threshold Concepts,
WILU (Workshop for Instruction in Library Use) Annual Conference 2009: "Reflections", Concordia University, Montreal, May 25-27, 2009.
Presentation: http://voicethread.com/#q.b527453.i0.k0 last accessed 21 July 2009
Johnstone, K., Dym, C. and Jacobius, T. (2008) Process, foundation, or skills: Is there a pedagogical difference?,
Presentations and Discussions, (Moderator, Crawley, E.), Project-Centred Learning Symposium 2008, Cambridge-MIT Institute Partnership Programme.
Threshold concepts - Keith Johnstone, University of Cambridge, UK
Design Process - Clive Dym, Harvey Mudd College
Transferable skills - Tom Jacobius, Illinois Institute of Technology
Cousin, G. (2006): Threshold Concepts: Old Wine in New Bottles or New Forms of Transactional Inquiry?
Presentation at the Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines Symposium, Glasgow, September, 2006; http://video.strath.ac.uk/06/140-06-04.wvx last accessed 18 October 2009
Perkins, D. (2006): Beyond Understanding
Presentation at the Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines Symposium, Glasgow, September, 2006; http://video.strath.ac.uk/06/140-06-01.wvx last accessed 18 October 2009
Entwistle, N. (2006) Threshold Concepts and Transformative Ways of Thinking in Research into Higher Education,
Presentation at the Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines Symposium, Glasgow, September, 2006; http://video.strath.ac.uk/06/140-06-02.wvx last accessed 18 October 2009
Selected Powerpoint Presentations on the Threshold Concept
Land, R. (2010) Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: A Transformative Approach to Learning,
Keynote Address at the New Zealand Association of Bridging Educators 9th National Conference, 29 September to 1 October 2010, Wellington, New Zealand: http://www.utdc.vuw.ac.nz/events/RayLand/201009RayLandSlides.ppt [last accessed 23 July 2011]
Land, R. and Meyer, J.H.F. (2010) Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge,
Keynote Presentation at issotl10 (International Society for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) Conference, Liverpool, UK, October 19-20, 2010: http://issotl10.indiana.edu/pres/tc.ppt [last accessed 23 July 2011]
Brunetti, K., Hofer, A.R. and Townsend, L. (2009): Through the Looking Glass: Teaching Information Literacy with Threshold Concepts,
WILU (Workshop for Instruction in Library Use) Annual Conference 2009: “Reflections”, Concordia University, Montreal, May 25-27, 2009.
Presentation: http://voicethread.com/#q.b527453.i0.k0 last accessed 21 July 2009
Buckley, C. and Maddern, J. (2009): Models of learning and teaching,
The tHE Programme, Bangor University and Aberystwyth University
Presentation: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/adu/the_scheme/documents/INDCBJM.ppt last accessed 28 October 2009
This powerpoint presentation also contains very informative notes.
Specific Topics
See the SUBJECT INDEX for an index of subjects covered in the specific topics listed in this section which provides a reference list ordered, alphabetically, into specific disciplines, e.g. economics, and teaching and learning topics, e.g. doctoral research, virtual worlds.
This list is not exhaustive. It initially reflected the interests of the compiler but is slowly being extended. Please feel free to e.mail Mick Flanagan with any comments or relevant references.
Additionally, a list of these references ordered, alphabetically, by author may be accessed by clicking here. The author index contains links to the authors’ home pages where available.
Boyd, W.E., O’Reilly, M., Rendell, K., Rowe, S., Wilson, E., Dimmock, K., Boyd, W., Nuske, E.M., Edelheim, J.R., Bucher, D.J. and Fisher, K. (2012) “Friday is my research day”: chance, time and desire in the search for the teaching-research nexus in the life of a university teacher,
Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 9 (2): http://ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/vol9/iss2/2 (last accessed 24 November 2012)
Cronin, J. (2012) ‘Doing’ history: what may liminal space and transition time expose during the process of mentoring new graduate tutors in the discipline of history?,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 79-80 [last accessed 1 July 2012].
Kinchin, I. M. and Miller, N. L. (2012) ‘Structural transformation’ as a threshold concept in university teaching,
Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 49 (2), 207-212.
Maguire, S. and Curran, R.(2012) Using Threshold Concepts as a Vehicle for Academic Development,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 24-25 [last accessed 1 July 2012].
McKeon, J. (2012) Threshold Concepts in the Professional Development of Second Language Teaching: teaching grammar communicatively,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 100-101 [last accessed 11 July 2012].
Mills, R. and Wilson, A. (2012) There's a Right Answer But Only Some Students Can Get It: Threshold Concepts in the Professional Development of Physics Demonstrators
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 83-84 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
Ó Donnchadha, B. (2012) Moving from Personal Practice to Communities of Reflective Practice: A Model for Professional Development,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 70-71 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Palmer, M. (2012) Learning as a Threshold Concept for Teaching,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 129-130 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
Pilkington, M. (2012) Playing with Models to Conceptualise, Support and Assess Professional Learning,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 98 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
Timmermans, J. (2012) Identifying Threshold Concepts in Educational Development,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 43-44 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
Wood, L. and Hoadley, S.(2012) Threshold Concepts in First Year Business,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 86 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
Macdonald, J. and Poniatowska, B. (2011) Designing the professional development of staff for teaching online: an OU (UK) case study,
Distance Education, 32 (1), 119-134.
Smith, J. (2011) Resonance, Dissonance, Rejection: Experiences of Probationary Lecturers in UK Higher Education,
PhD Thesis, School of Education, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, July 2011: http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/35822/
Blackie, M.A.L., Case, J.M. and Jawitz, J. (2010) Student-centredness: the link between transforming students and transforming ourselves,
Teaching in Higher Education, 15 (6), 637-646.
Smith, J. (2010) Forging identities: the experiences of probationary lecturers in the UK,
Studies in Higher Education, 35 (5), 577-591.
Gourlay, L. (2010) Threshold practices: meaning-making practices, cultures of inscription and emergent subjectivities in higher education,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Northcote, M., Beamish, P., Reynaud, D., Martin, T. and Gosselin, K. (2010) Bumpy moments and joyful breakthroughs: The place of threshold concepts in academic staff development programs about online learning and teaching,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Whittaker, S. (2010) Threshold concepts in teaching auditing: transformations experienced during the learning journeys of auditing lecturers,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Cousin, G. (2009) Transactional Curriculum Inquiry: Researching Threshold Concepts,
In: Researching Learning in Higher Education: An Introduction to Contemporary Methods and Approaches, Routledge, Abingdon & NY, Chapter 13, pp 201-212.
Paperback: ISBN-10: 0-415-99165-X, ISBN-13: 978-0-415-99165-0; Hardback: ISBN-10: 0-415-99164-1; ISBN-13: 978-0-415-99164-3; eBook: ISBN-10: 0-203-88458-2; ISBN-13: 978-0-203-88458-4.
Gourlay, L. (2009) Threshold practices: becoming a student through academic literacies,
London Review of Education, 7 (2), 181-192.
Irvine, N. and Carmichael, P. (2009) Threshold concepts: A point of focus for practitioner research,
Active Learning in Higher Education, 10 (2), 103-119.
Cove, M., McAdam, J. and McGonigal, J. (2008) Mentoring, Teaching and Professional Transformation,
in: Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Smith, J., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp 197-211, [book details].
Hadfield, P. and Atherton, J. (2008) Beyond Compliance,
A development of “Accountability, assessment and anxiety; and curricular structures to help students engage with troublesome knowledge”,
a paper presented at 16th Improving Student Learning; through the curriculum conference, University of Durham UK, 1-3 September 2008 http://www.bedspce.org.uk/papers/Beyond%20Compliance_50.pdf last accessed 17 July 2010.
Lucas, U. and Mladenovic, R. (2007) The potential of threshold concepts: an emerging framework for educational research and practice,
London Review of Education, Vol. 5, No. 3, November 2007, pp. 237-248
Carmichael, P., Burchmore, H., Tracy, F. and Johnstone, K. (2007) Threshold Concepts: An Emerging Interdisciplinary Research Agenda in Higher Education,
In: GlobalPerspectives on Higher Education, Volume 4, University Collaboration for Innovation, Lessons from the Cambridge-MIT Institute, Good, D., Greenwald, S., Cox, R. and Goldman, M. (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam and Taipei, pp 155-171.
ISBN 90-8790-039-2 (paperback); ISBN 90-8790-040-6(hardback).
Smith, J. (2006) Lost in translation: Staff and students negotiating liminal spaces,
SEDA Annual Conference, Liverpool, 2006.
Morgan, C. K., Watson, G. K., Roberts, D. W., McKenzie, A. D. and Cochrane, K. W. (2004) Scholarship neglected? How levels are assigned for units of study in Australian undergraduate courses,
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 29 (3), 283-298.
Barton, G. (2012) ‘Threshold Concept Literacy’: Helping Learners Develop Writing Skills and Acquire Threshold Concept Understanding Through Examining Associated Transformations in Discourse,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 95 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Mattisson, J. and Schamp-Bjerede, T. (2012) The boilerplate: a new look at a familiar device. Writing in English for “digital natives” and “digital immigrants”
Kristianstad University School of Education and Environment Article, Högskolepedagogisk debatt 1-2012, pp 31-41. http://hkr.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?searchId=2&pid=diva2:491904 (last accessed 9 November 2012)
Morris, A. (2012) Crossing Subject Specific Threshold Concepts via Short Story Writing: Law Students Demonstrate an Increased Understanding of Human Rights,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 114-115 [last accessed 11 July 2012].
Wisker, G. (2012) Vision and Voice: Conceptual Threshold Crossing in Writing for Academic Publication Programmes,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 56-57 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
Donohue, J.P. (2012) Using systemic functional linguistics in academic writing development: An example from film studies,
Journal of English for Academic Purposes 11 (1), 4-16.
Keranen, N. and Merino Munive, A. (2011) Short and Long-term Effects of Writing Intervention from a Psychological Perspective on Professional and Academic Writing in Higher Education - The Writers’ Workshop,
The European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), EATAW 2011, Limerick, Ireland, 29 June - 1 July 2011.
Powerpoint presentation: http://www3.ul.ie/rwc/eataw2011/sites/default/files/0035%20KERANEN%20and%20MUNIVE.pdf (last accessed 22 January 2013)
Smith G. (2011) The Write Rhythm,
2nd Annual International Conference on Fine and Performing Arts, June 2011, Athens: http://eprints.brighton.ac.uk/8977/ [last accessed 18 November 2011].
Hobson, J. (2010) Transforming practice: conducting first year students through liminal space by explicitly teaching academic skills,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Aidulis, D. and Cogdell, B. (2009) Development of a workshop to enhance scientific writing skills and reduce plagiarism,
Proceedings of the Higher Education Academy Subject Centres for Bioscience, Materials and Physical Sciences Science Learning and Teaching Conference 2009, 16-17 June 2009, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, page 12. http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/ftp/events/sltc09/papers/o4aidulis.pdf last accessed 6 February 2010
Gourlay, L. (2009) Threshold practices: becoming a student through academic literacies,
London Review of Education, 7 (2), 181-192.
Wisker, G and Savin-Baden, M. (2009) Priceless conceptual thresholds: beyond the ‘stuck place’ in writing,
London Review of Education, 7 (3), 235-247.
Wallace, D. (2010) The Grit in the Oyster - does an appreciation of threshold concepts in an adult literacies teaching qualification result in pearls of practice?,
Literacy and Numeracy Studies, 18 (1), 3-18. http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/lnj/article/view/1426 (last accessed 29 August 2010)
Ackland, A. (2008) Transforming Professional Identities in a CPD Community of Enquiry,
ESREA (European Society for Research on the Education of Adults), Access, Learning Careers and Identities Network Conference: Educational Journeys and Changing Lives, University of Seville, Spain, 10 -12 December 2008. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/cll/about/news/esrea/abstracts/ackland_paper.pdf (last accessed 11 August 2009).
Wilson, L. and Leitner, D.S. (2007) Teaching Anthropology as ‘Troublesomeness’: Notes on instruction and the notion of ‘Threshold Concepts’,
Presented at the ‘Transforming Perspectives’ Seminar Series ‘B’: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Threshold Concepts
St. John’s College, Cambridge, 15 January 2007: http://cambridge.academia.edu/documents/0008/9457/TC_Seminar_B_paper-final_for_distribution.doc (last accessed 20 September 2010).
Archaeology
Kirk, K. and Greaves, A. (2009) Absorbing the shock of the early undergraduate experience,
Assessment, Learning & Teaching Journal (ALT Journal), Number 5, Spring 2009, pp 5-8.
On-line at: http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/ALT_Journal_No_5.pdf (last accessed 6 June 2011).
Sinclair, A. (2008) To Stones and Bones, Add Genes and Isotopes, Life histories and Landscapes: Accumulating Issues for the Teaching of Palaeolithic Archaeology,
Research in Archaeological Education (RAE) Journal, 1 (2), 57-70.
On-line at The Higher Education Academy (HEA) Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/hca/documents/archaeology/RAEjournal/issue2/rae_issue2_sinclair.pdf (last accessed 29 August 2010).
Blair, L., Fitch, S. and Barrington, J. (2012) Art Education and Troublesome Knowledge: Helping Students Form Identities as Artist Teachers,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 35-36 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
McCarthy, M. and Blackshields, D. (2012) Looking for Trouble: Encountering the Unknown at the National Gallery of Ireland,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 55 [last accessed 11 July 2012].
Wuetherick, B. and Loeffler, E. (2012) Threshold Concepts and Decoding the Humanities: A Case Study of a Threshold Concept in Art History,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 29-30 [last accessed 1 July 2012].
Flood, A. (2010) Not in the Stars: thresholds of constructing artistic self,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Rourke, A. (2010) Embedding threshold concepts into first year design history: Can we transform students understanding?,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Assessment
Adams, J. and McNab, N. (2013) Understanding arts and humanities students’ experiences of assessment and feedback,
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education 2013: Available on-line 10.1177/1474022212460743.
Tan, K. (2013) A Framework for Assessment for Learning: Implications for Feedback Practices within and beyond the Gap,
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Barradell, S. (2012) Visible Learning of Threshold Concepts - An Example of an Assessment Task Using Concept Mapping,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 72-73 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Lutze-Mann, L. and Northcote, M. (2012) Separating the Chaff from the Wheat: Threshold Concepts in Higher Education Assessment,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 113-114 [last accessed 5 July 2012].
Pilkington, M. (2012) Playing with Models to Conceptualise, Support and Assess Professional Learning,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 98 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
Springfield, L. (2012) Using Assessment Activities to Engage Students with Threshold Concepts,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 109-110 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
Sweeney, J., Hegarty, J., Condon, C., O'Shea, M., Flynn, A., Marsh, L., Phelan, A., Cummins, A., Creedon, S. and O'Mahony, K. (2012) Assessment of Learning in the Clinical Practice Environment: Using an On-Line Tool to Help Students Understand the Abstract Nature of Steinaker and Bell's (1979) Experiential Taxonomy,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 86-87 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
Wertzler, L. and Gale, R. (2012) Self as a Learner as a Threshold Concept: The University Journey,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 66-67 [last accessed 11 July 2012].
Daniels, M. (2011) Developing and Assessing Professional Competencies: Experiences from an Open-Ended Group Project Learning Environment,
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Diamond, R.V. (2011) Technical Report on Assessment Data Analysis: What Can Grade Distributions Tell Us? Surface Learners and Threshold Concepts in Statistics,
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Timmerman, B.C., Feldon, D., Maher, M., Strickland, D. and Gilmore, J. (2013) Performance-based assessment of graduate student research skills: timing, trajectory, and potential thresholds,
Studies in Higher Education, 38 (5), 693-710.
Davies, P. and Mangan, J. (2010) Assessing Progression of Students’ Economic Understanding: The role of threshold concepts,
in: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Baillie, C., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 193-206, [book details].
Land, R. and Meyer, J. H. F. (2010) Threshold concepts and troublesome: Dynamics of Assessment,
in: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Baillie, C., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 61-79, [book details].
Orsini-Jones, M. (2010) Troublesome Grammar Knowledge and Action-Research-Led Assessment Design: Learning from Liminality,
in: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Baillie, C., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 281-299, [book details].
Prusty, G. (2010) Teaching and assessment of mechanics courses in engineering, which encourage and motivate students to learn threshold concepts effectively,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Hadfield, P. and Atherton, J. (2008) Beyond Compliance,
A development of “Accountability, assessment and anxiety; and curricular structures to help students engage with troublesome knowledge”,
a paper presented at 16th Improving Student Learning; through the curriculum conference, University of Durham UK, 1-3 September 2008 http://www.bedspce.org.uk/papers/Beyond%20Compliance_50.pdf last accessed 17 July 2010.
Davies, P. and Mangan, J. (2007) Threshold Concepts in Economics: Implications for teaching, learning and assessment,
The Handbook for Economics Lectureres, The Higher Education Academy (HEA) Economics Network: http://economicsnetwork.ac.uk/handbook/threshold-concepts [last accessed 23 September 2009]
Philip, L. (2006) Encouraging reflective practice amongst students: a direct assessment approach,
Planet No 17, December 2006, pp 37-39.
[http://www.gees.ac.uk/planet/p17/lp.pdf last accessed 25 June 2008]
Anderson, T. R. and Rogan, J. M. (2011) Curriculum Develeopment, Part 1: Components of the Curriculum and Influences on the Process of Curriculum Design,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 39 (1), 68-76.
Loertscher, J. (2011) Threshold Concepts in Biochemistry,
Biochemistry and Molecualr Biology Education, 39 (1), 56-57.
The University of Sydney web page Threshold Concepts in Biology, drawing upon the outcomes of a major ALTC project, describes extensive studies of and is excellent introduction to Threshold Concepts and Biology.
Kennedy, E. (2012) Crossing a Threshold Concept in Biology: Variation in Student Learning
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 53-54 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
Taylor, C., Tzioumis, V., Meyer, J.H.F. and Ross, P. (2012) Using a Mixed Methods Approach to Explore Student Understanding of Hypotheses in Biology
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 19-20 [last accessed 29 June 2012].
Zimbardi, K., Meyer, J.H.F., Chunduri, P., Lluka, L., Taylor, C., Ross, P. and Tzioumis, V.(2012) Student Understanding of the Critical Features of an Hypothesis: Variation Across Epistemic and Heuristic Dimensions,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 48-49 [last accessed 1 July 2012].
Kinchin, I. M. (2011) Visualising knowledge structures in biology: discipline, curriculum and student understanding,
Journal of Biological Education 45 (4), 183-189.
Kennedy, E. (2010) Exploring learning strategies to address threshold concepts using an example from biology,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Kinchin, I. M. (2010) Solving Cordelia’s Dilemma: threshold concepts within a punctuated model of learning,
Journal of Biological Education, 44 (2), 52-57.
Macfadyen, L and Kayaap, D. (2010) Problem-solving as a Learning Threshold in Biology?,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
McCabe, B. (2010) Identifying threshold concepts specific to science learning in nursing and the development of teaching approaches to facilitate their crossing.,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Rayner, G. (2010) Using peer-assisted learning to enhance student understanding of the threshold concept of evolution,
First Year Biology Educators Colloquium (FYBEC), 29-30 Nov, 2010, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Ross, P., Hughes, C., Lutze-Mann, L., Parker, P., Taylor, C., Tzioumis, V. and Whitaker, N. (2010) Crossing the threshold - Language and identity in learning concepts in biology,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Taylor, C., Hughes, C., Lutze-Mann, L., Ross, P., Tzioumis, V. and Whitaker, N. (2010) Scale: an epistemological exploration of a threshold concept in biology,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Taylor, C., Hughes, C., Lutze-Mann, L., Ross, P., Tzioumis, V. and Whitaker, N. (2010) Using a threshold concepts framework to develop a community of practice and effect curriculum change in undergraduate biology programs,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Taylor, C. E. and Meyer, J. H. F. (2010) The Testable Hypothesis as a Threshold Concept for Biology Students,
in: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Baillie, C., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 179-192, [book details].
Taylor, C. E., (2008) Threshold concepts, troublesome knowledge and ways of thinking and practising,
Paper presented at the Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines Symposium, Glasgow, September, 2006,
and in: Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines, eds. Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Smith, J., Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp 189-206, [book details].
Taylor, C. E. and Cope, C. (2007) Are there educationally critical aspects in the concept of evolution?,
UniServe Science, Proceedings of the Assessment in Science Teaching and Learning Symposium, University of Sydney, September 28-29, 2007, pp 101-106.
[http://science.uniserve.edu.au/pubs/procs/2007/21.pdf last accessed 25 June 2008]
Hatsidimitris, G. (2007) Using cognitive load theory as a framework for designing a set of integrated multimedia modules to assist in the teaching of a threshold concept,
UniServe Science, Proceedings of the Assessment in Science Teaching and Learning Symposium, University of Sydney, September 28-29, 2007, pp 172-176.
[http://science.uniserve.edu.au/pubs/procs/2007/34.pdf last accessed 25 June 2008]
Ross, P. M. and Tronson, D. A. (2007) Intervening to create conceptual change,
UniServe Science, Proceedings of the Assessment in Science Teaching and Learning Symposium, University of Sydney, September 28-29, 2007, pp 89-94.
[http://science.uniserve.edu.au/pubs/procs/2007/19.pdf last accessed 25 June 2008]
Taylor, C. E. (2006) Threshold Concepts in Biology: do they fit the definition?,
in: Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge
Edited by Jan H. F. Meyer and Ray Land,
Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, pp 87-99 [book details].
Built Environment
Gray, M. and Blake, A. (2013) Threshold concepts in property education: a case study.,
19th Annual Pacific-Rim Real Estate Society Conference, 13-16 January 2013, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (In
Press): http://eprints.qut.edu.au/56510/ (last accessed 22 January 2013)
Viswanathan, L., Whitelaw, G.S. and Meligrana, J. (2012) Evaluating the Role of the Project Course in Professional Planning Education and Its Influence on Planning Policy and Practice,
Planning Practice & Research, 27 (3), 387-403.
Boys, J. (2011) Towards Creative Learning Spaces: Re-thinking the Architecture of Post-Compulsory Education,
Routledge, Abingdon and New York, ISBN-13: 978-0415570640.
Quinlan, A, Farrell, H. and Hogben, P. (2010) Attending to liminality: Constructing an identity as a student of Architecture through experiential learning,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Rodrigo, R. (2010) Design as Interpretation: Embedding Threshold Concepts in First Year Design Education,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
McCabe, B. (2010) Identifying threshold concepts specific to science learning in nursing and the development of teaching approaches to facilitate their crossing.,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Sheehan, M. (2010) Identification of difficult topics in the teaching and learning of Chemistry in Irish schools and the development of an intervention programme to target some of these difficulties,
University of Limerick PhD Thesis: http://ulir.ul.ie/bitstream/10344/432/3/MSpthesis.pdf (last accessed 11 September 2010)
Hedberg, M. and Ljungqvist, M. (2009) Use of screencasts as support for the understanding of threshold concepts within higher education,
(Användning av screencasts som stöd för förståelse av tröskelbegrepp inom högre utbildning)
Proceedings för Utvecklingskonferens 09, Lunds Universitet, 24 September 2009, pp 96-97
On-line: http://www.lu.se/upload/utvecklingskonferensen/Proceedings_utvecklingskonferens09.pdf last accessed 1 August 2010.
[Addresses screencasting and the identification of threshold concepts in a web-based beginners’ course in Chinese]
Civic Engagement, Ethics and Social Justice
McAllister, M., Oprescu, F., Downer, T., Lyons, M., Pelly, F. and Barr, N. (2013) Evaluating STAR - a transformative learning framework: interdisciplinary action research in health training,
Educational Action Research 21 (1), 90-106.
Barnatt, J. and Knight-McKenna, M.(2012) Addressing Diversity as Asset: Using Social Justice Vignettes for Transformational Change in Teacher Preparation,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 25-26 [last accessed 1 July 2012].
Devanas, M. (2012) The “Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities”, a US National Initiative Linking Sciences, Public Issues and Threshold Concepts,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 47-48 [last accessed 1 July 2012].
Healy, R. L. (2012) Ethical thinking in a disciplinary context: The ethical development of undergraduates and expectations of tutors in the arts, social and pure sciences,
Master’s thesis, University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom: http://hdl.handle.net/10034/267472 (last accessed: 26 March 2013)
Horn, J. (2012) Embedding Threshold Concepts in a Student Learning Community,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 42 [last accessed 5 July 2012].
Horn, J. (2012) The Process and Lessons Learned in Developing Interdisciplinary Threshold Concepts,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 119 [last accessed 5 July 2012].
Morris, A. (2012) Crossing Subject Specific Threshold Concepts via Short Story Writing: Law Students Demonstrate an Increased Understanding of Human Rights,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 114-115 [last accessed 11 July 2012].
Kabo, J. and Baillie C. (2009) Seeing through the lens of social justice: a threshold for engineering,
European Journal of Engineering Education, 34 (4), 317-325.
Hatsidimitris, G. (2007) Using cognitive load theory as a framework for designing a set of integrated multimedia modules to assist in the teaching of a threshold concept,
UniServe Science, Proceedings of the Assessment in Science Teaching and Learning Symposium, University of Sydney, September 28-29, 2007, pp 172-176.
[http://science.uniserve.edu.au/pubs/procs/2007/34.pdf last accessed 25 June 2008]
Mead, J., Gray, S., Hamer, J., James, R., Sorva, J., St. Clair, C and Thomas, L. (2006). A Cognitive Approach to Identifying Measurable Milestones for Programming Skill Acquisition,
The Eleventh Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, University of Bologna, Italy 26-28 June 2006
[http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~mead/ITiCSE-2006/BolognaReport.pdf last accessed 4 July 2009]
Competencies
Click here for a list of references to papers related to Threshold Concepts and Competencies.
Ciccone, A. and Meyers, R.(2012) Accepting Ambiguity, Enjoying Complexity: Threshold Concepts for the Humanities,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 78 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Griffith, S. (2010) The Wicked Problem: Using games to demonstrate complexity of sustainability to novices,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Land, R. (2010) Threshold Concepts and Issues of Interdisciplinarity,
Featured Lecture given at the Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Video of the lecture: http://tv.unsw.edu.au/video/professor-ray-land-and-professor-erik-meyer (last accessed 19 October 2010)
Halldén, O. and Lundholm, C. (2009). Conceptual Change and the Complexity of Learning: Threshold Questions, Meaning making and Contextuality,
The 13th European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (Earli) Biennial Conference: Fostering Communities of Learners, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August 25-29, 2009.
Abstract: http://www.earli2009.org/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=487
Bishop, S. (2006) Using analogy in science teaching as a bridge to students’ understanding of complex issues,
in: Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge, edited by Jan H. F. Meyer and Ray Land,
Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, pp 182-194 [book details].
Knight, Y. (2006) Knowledge, evidence, complexity and uncertainty: a summary,
Planet No 17, December 2006, pp 24-25.
[http://www.gees.ac.uk/planet/p17/yk.pdf last accessed 18 December 2010]
Computer Programming
Sanders, K., Boustedt, J. Eckerdal, A., McCartney, R., Moström, J. E., Thomas, L. and Zander, C. (2012) Threshold Concepts and Threshold Skills in Computing,
Proceedings of ICER’12, September 9-11, 2012, Auckland, New Zealand, pp 23-30.
Thomas, L., Boustedt, J. Eckerdal, A., McCartney, R., Sanders, K. and Zander, C. (2012) A Broader Threshold: Including Skills as well as Concepts in Computing Education
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 45-46 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
zeizeiw (2011) 软件编程教材c#编程技巧基于ThresholdConcept的软件编程基础网络课程研究 [C# programming software programming skills teaching Threshold Concept-based software program of basic network programming], Automated Translation of http://www.jxbcw.com/c/5829 (last accessed 1 September 2011)
Sien, VY. and Chong, D.W.K. (2011) Threshold Concepts in Object-Oriented Modelling,
7th Educators’ Symposium@MODELS 2011 - Software Modeling in Education - EduSymp Models 2011, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, October 2011, Pre-Proceedings pp 55-64:
http://www.se.uni-oldenburg.de/documents/olnse-2-2011-EduSymp.pdf#page=5 (last accessed 31 October 2011).
Boustedt, J. (2010) On the Road to a Software Profession. Students’ Experiences of Concepts and Thresholds,
Acta Universitatis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 734. 61pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-7789-9.
[http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:309647/FULLTEXT01 last accessed 31 May 2010]
Carstensen, A. and Carstensen, A-K. (2010) Transforming a first programming course - some critical aspects,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Daneshgar, F. (2010) A Threshold Concept Perspective for Enhancing Effectiveness of PhD Supervision in Computing Disciplines,
Annual International Conference on Computer Science Education: Innovation & Technology (CSEIT 2010), Hilton Phuket Arcadia Resort & Spa, Thailand, 6th December 2010.
Sorva, J. (2010) Reflections on threshold concepts in computer programming and beyond,
Proceedings of the 10th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, ACM DL Digital Library, ACM New York, NY, USA
Thomas, L., Zander, C. and Eckerdal, A. (2010) Harnessing surprise: tales from students’ transformational biographies,
Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, Pages: 300-304.
Ling Zeng, Shanyun Kuang, Lei Yang, Tonglin Zhu, Xin Ding (2010) Construction of Threshold Concept-Based Programming Courses Ontology,
Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on E-Business and E-Government (icee), May 7th to 9th, 2010, Guangzhou, China, pp.3849-3851.
Drummond, S. A. (2009) Investigating the Impact of Entry Qualifications on Student Performance in Computing Programmes at Undergraduate Level,
University of Durham PhD Thesis: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/154/1/Sarah_Drummond.pdf (last accessed 11 September 2010)
Eckerdal, A. (2009) Novice Programming Students’ Learning of Concepts and Practise,
Acta Universitatis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 600. 194pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-7406-5. http://user.it.uu.se/~annae/FullAvh-Spikenheten.pdf [last accessed 3 October 2010]
Khalife, J.T. (2009) Novice Programmers Difficulties Alleviated: Surpassing the Threshold of Learning how to Program,
Proceedings of the first regional conference on Program and Learning Assessment in Higher Education, November 6-7, 2009: http://cpla.lau.edu.lb/files/1st-regional-conference-proceedings.pdf (last accessed 12 September 2010)
Rountree, J. and Rountree, N., (2009) Issues Regarding Threshold Concepts in Computer Science,
Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2009), (Eds. Hamilton, M. and Clear, T.) CRPIT. 95, pp 139-145.
[http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV95Rountree.pdf last accessed 24 April 2009]
Zander, C., Boustedt, J., McCartney, R., Moström, J.E., Sanders, K. and Thomas, L. (2009) Student Transformations: Are They Computer Scientists Yet?,
Proceedings of the fifth international workshop on Computing education research workshop, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2009, Pages 129-140.
Flanagan, M. T. and Smith, J. (2008) From playing to understanding: the transformative potential of discourse versus syntax in learning to program,
in: Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Smith, J., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp 91-104, [book details].
Moström, J. E., Boustedt, J., Eckerdal, A., McCartney, R., Sanders, K., Thomas, L., and Zander, C. (2008) Concrete examples of abstraction as manifested in students’ transformative experiences,
In: Proceeding of the Fourth international Workshop on Computing Education Research, Sydney, Australia, September 06-07, 2008: ICER ’08. ACM, New York, NY, 125-136.
Shinners-Kennedy, D. (2008) The Everydayness of Threshold Concepts: State as an Example from Computer Science,
in: Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Smith, J., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp 119-128, [book details].
Boustedt, J., Eckerdal, A., McCartney, R., Moström, J.E., Ratcliffe, M., Sanders, K. and Zander, C. (2007) Threshold Concepts in Computer Science: Do they exist and are they useful?,
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 39, 504-508.
McCartney, R., Eckerdal, A., Moström, J.E., Sanders, K. and Zander, C. (2007) Successful students’ strategies for getting unstuck,
ITiCSE’07, June, 2007, Dundee, Scotland.
Vagianou, E. (2007) Program Working Storage: A Beginner’s Model,
6th Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research: Koli Calling 2006, Anders Berglund and Mattias Wiggberg (Eds.), Uppsala University, Sweden, February 2007, Technology Technical report 2007-006, pp 69-76. http://www.it.uu.se/research/publications/reports/2007-006/2007-006.pdf (last accessed 22 July 2009)
Flanagan, M. T. and Smith, J. (2006) Threshold concepts: troublesome topographies for the Google generation,
Paper presented at Beyond Boundaries: New Horizons for Research into Higher Education, Annual Conference of the Society for Research into Higher EducationBrighton: 12 - 14 December 2006.
Smith, J. (2006) Lost in translation: Staff and students negotiating liminal spaces,
SEDA Annual Conference, Liverpool.
Khalife, J.T. (2006) Threshold for the Introduction of Programming: Providing Learners with a Simple Computer Model,
Psychology of Programming Interest Group 18th Annual Workshop, 7-8 September 2006, University of Sussex, pp 244-254.
[http://www.ppig.org/workshops/18th-programme.html last accessed 25 June 2008]
Mead, J., Gray, S., Hamer, J., James, R., Sorva, J., St. Clair, C and Thomas, L. (2006). A Cognitive Approach to Identifying Measurable Milestones for Programming Skill Acquisition,
The Eleventh Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, University of Bologna, Italy 26-28 June 2006
[http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~mead/ITiCSE-2006/BolognaReport.pdf last accessed 4 July 2009]
Kinchin, I. (2013) Concept mapping and the fundamental problem of moving between knowledge structures,
Journal for Educators, Teachers and Trainers 4 (1), 96-106. www.ugr.es/~jett/pdf/vol04(1)_08_jett_kinchin.pdf (last accessed: 24 March 2013)
Barradell, S. (2012) Visible Learning of Threshold Concepts - An Example of an Assessment Task Using Concept Mapping,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 72-73 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Cicuto, C. A. T. and Correia, P. R. M. (2012) Compulsory Concept As Instructional Strategy to Identify Limited or Inappropriate Propositional Hierarchies in Concept Maps,
Concept Maps: Theory, Methodology, Technology, Proc. of the Fifth Int. Conference on Concept Mapping A. J. Cañas, J. D. Novak, J. Vanhear, Eds. Valletta, Malta 2012 http://cmc.ihmc.us/cmc2012papers/cmc2012-p80.pdf (last accessed: 26 April 2013)
Kandiko, C.B. and Kinchin, I.M. (2012) What is a doctorate? A concept-mapped analysis of process versus product in the supervision of lab-based PhDs,
Educational Research, 54 (1), 3-16.
Kinchin, I. M. and Miller, N. L. (2012) ‘Structural transformation’ as a threshold concept in university teaching,
Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 49 (2), 207-212.
Kinchin, I. (2012) Threshold Concepts and the Expert Student: A Knowledge Structures Perspective on Teaching, Learning and Academic Development,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 84-85 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
Quinlan, K., Baillie, C., Male, S. and Stamboulis, A. (2012) A Developing Methodology to Locate Curricula Thresholds in First Year Engineering
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 28 [last accessed 28 June 2012].
Kinchin, I. M. (2011) Visualising knowledge structures in biology: discipline, curriculum and student understanding,
Journal of Biological Education 45 (4), 183-189.
Kinchin, I.M., Cabot, L.B. & Hay, D.B. (2010) Visualising expertise: Revealing the nature of a threshold concept in the development of an authentic pedagogy for clinical education,
in: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Baillie, C., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 81-95, [book details].
Boustedt, J. (2010) On the Road to a Software Profession. Students’ Experiences of Concepts and Thresholds,
Acta Universitatis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 734. 61pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-7789-9.
[http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:309647/FULLTEXT01 last accessed 31 May 2010]
Park, E-J. and Light, G. (2010) Identifying a Potential Threshold Concept in Nanoscience and Technology: Engaging Theory in the Service of Practice,
in: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Baillie, C., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 259-279, [book details].
Kinchin, I. M. (2008) The Qualitative Analysis of Concept Maps: Some Unforeseen Consequences and Emerging Opportunities,
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Concept Mapping: Concept Mapping: Connecting Educators, Cañas, A. J. , Reiska, P., Åhlberg, M. and Novak, J. D. (eds.), Tallinn, Estonia & Helsinki, Finland 2008. http://cmc.ihmc.us/cmc2008papers/cmc2008-p500.pdf (last accessed 11 August 2009)
Kandiko, C. B., Kinchin, I. M. and Hay, D. B. (2008) Longitudinal studies of cognitive change among Students and their supervisors in the course of research supervision leading to a PhD,
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Concept Mapping: Concept Mapping: Connecting Educators, Cañas, A. J. , Reiska, P., Åhlberg, M. and Novak, J. D. (eds.), Tallinn, Estonia & Helsinki, Finland 2008. http://cmc.ihmc.us/cmc2008papers/cmc2008-p104.pdf (last accessed 11 August 2009)
Park, E-J., Light, G. and Mason, T. (2008) Identifying threshold concepts in learning nanoscience by using concept maps and students’ responses to an open-ended interview,
International Society of the Learning Sciences, 3, 109-110.
Moroney, D. (2012) Threshold Concepts in a TEE (Teaching English in English) Context,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 123 [last accessed 11 July 2012].
Ackland, A. (2008) Transforming Professional Identities in a CPD Community of Enquiry,
ESREA (European Society for Research on the Education of Adults), Access, Learning Careers and Identities Network Conference: Educational Journeys and Changing Lives, University of Seville, Spain, 10 -12 December 2008. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/cll/about/news/esrea/abstracts/ackland_paper.pdf (last accessed 11 August 2009)
Creativity
Allen, B. (2012) Creativity as Threshold - Learning and Teaching in a Liminal Space,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 72 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Allen, B. (2011) The importance of creativity: teaching for transformation in higher education,
Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference 2011, 27 November - 1 December 2011, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia: http://www.aare.edu.au/11pap/papers_pdf/aarefinal00303.pdf last accessed 3 April 2012
Kiley, M, Meyer, J.H.F. and Wisker, G. (2010) Creativity in research education: Is it a threshold concept or just a good thing?,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Coughlan, P. and Graham, A. (2009) Embedding a Threshold Concept in Teaching and Learning of Product Development Management,
Creativity and Innovation Management, 18 (3), 190-198.
Kiley, M. (2009) Creativity as a Threshold Concept in research education,
Paper presented at the 13th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), 25-29 August 2009. Book of Abstracts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Pol, E. (2008) Teaching and Learning Business Innovation by Successive Approximations,
8th Global Conference on Business & Economics, Florence, Italy, October 18-19th, 2008
[http://www.gcbe.us/8th_GCBE/data/Eduardo%20Pol.doc last accessed 24 April 2009]
Reid, A and Solomonides, I. (2007) Design students’ experience of engagement and creativity,
Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 6 (1), 27-39.
Osmond, J. and Turner, A. (2007) Measuring the creative baseline in transport design education,
Paper presented at Improving Student Learning - For What?
The 15th Improving Student Learning Symposium (ISL), Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 3-5 September 2007.
Onsman, A. and Paganin, D. (2006) Perturbative Analogies: fostering creativity in postgraduate research students,
AARE (Australian Association for Research in Education) Conference 2006
[http://www.aare.edu.au/06pap/ons06061.pdf last accessed 27 May 2010]
Criticisms of the Threshold Concept
Delany, D. (2012) The Emperor's New Concept: Vague, Postmodern, and Unfalsifiable - Is Threshold Concept Theory a Step Too Far?,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 90-91 [last accessed 3 July 2012].
O’Donnell, R. (2010) A Critique of the Threshold Concept Hypothesis and an Application in Economics,
University of Technology Sydney, School of Finance and Economics, UTS Business, Working Paper 164 http://www.finance.uts.edu.au/research/wpapers/wp164.pdf (last accessed 1 June 2011).
O’Donnell, R. (2010) A critical perspective on threshold concepts and a prominent application in economics,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Rowbottom, D. P. (2007) Demystifying Threshold Concepts,
Journal of Philosophy of Education, 41 (2), 263-270
Curriculum Design
Click here for a list of references to papers related to Threshold Concepts and Curriculum Design.
Cronin, J. (2012) ‘Doing’ history: what may liminal space and transition time expose during the process of mentoring new graduate tutors in the discipline of history?,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 79-80 [last accessed 1 July 2012].
Pace, D., Diaz, A., Middendorf, J. and Shopkow, L. (2012) Mastering a Threshold Concept through Decoding the Disciplines,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 55-56 [last accessed 1 July 2012].
Shopkow, L. and Díaz, A. (2012) Still Lurking in the Background: Bottlenecks, Threshold Concepts, and Epistemology,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 31-32 [last accessed 1 July 2012].
Wuetherick, B. and Loeffler, E. (2012) Threshold Concepts and Decoding the Humanities: A Case Study of a Threshold Concept in Art History,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 29-30 [last accessed 1 July 2012].
Shopkow, L. (2010) What decoding the disciplines can offer threshold concepts,
in: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Baillie, C., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 317-331, [book details].
Fletcher, A. and Boon, S. (2013) Proposed vertical integration of prior learning to support students undertaking Chemical Engineering Design,
Education for Chemical Engineers: Available on-line February 2013, DOI: doi:10.1016/j.ece.2013.02.002.
Osmond, J. (2012) Threshold Concepts and Research-Informed Teaching
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 33-34 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
Zoltowski, C. B., Oakes, W. C. and Cardella, M. E. (2012) Students’ Ways of Experiencing Human-Centered Design,
Journal of Engineering Education 101 (1), 28-59.
Cernusca, D. and Bham, G.H. (2011): Application of Threshold Concepts to Improve a Design-Focused Course in Transportation Engineering,
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2211, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2011, pp. 10-17: http://trb.metapress.com/content/4x7w3w51427276gk/fulltext.pdf?page=1 last accessed 17 November 2011
Osmond, J. and Turner, A. (2010) The Threshold Concept Journey: From identity to application,
in: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Baillie, C., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 347-363, [book details].
Griffith, S. (2010) The Wicked Problem: Using games to demonstrate complexity of sustainability to novices,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Osmond, J. (2010) Wicked problems and wicked disciplines,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Rourke, A. (2010) Embedding threshold concepts into first year design history: Can we transform students understanding?,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Turraoin, S. (2010) Improving visual literacy in design education - Can a grounding in social semiotics and modalities benefit students with underdeveloped visual literacy skills in overcoming threshold concepts and wicked problems in design education?,
MA thesis in Higher Education, 2010, Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Learning and Teaching Centre, Dublin. http://www.sibealturraoin.ie/Writing/maeducation/MA_Thesis.pdf (last accessed: 26 March 2013)
Osmond, J., Bull, K. and Tovey, M. (2009) Threshold concepts and the transport and product design curriculum: reports of research in progress,
Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 8 (2), 169-175.
Osmond, J., Turner, A. and Land, R. (2008) Threshold Concepts and Spatial Awareness in transport and Product Design,
In: Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines, eds. Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Smith, J., Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp 243-260, [book details].
Osmond, J. and Turner, A. (2007) Measuring the creative baseline in transport design education,
Paper presented at Improving Student Learning - For What?
The 15th Improving Student Learning Symposium (ISL), Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 3-5 September 2007.
Reid, A and Solomonides, I. (2007) Design students’ experience of engagement and creativity,
Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 6 (1), 27-39.
Grogan, S. (2012) ‘Playing’ So Hard We Fall Out of Our Heads: Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge in Experiences of Experiential Knowledge Acquisition in Higher Education Actor Training,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 63 [last accessed 3 July 2012].
Leahy, T. (2012) An Investigation of Dance as Art within the Threshold Concepts Theory of Learning,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 120-121 [last accessed 6 July 2012].
Donohue, J.P. (2012) Using systemic functional linguistics in academic writing development: An example from film studies,
Journal of English for Academic Purposes 11 (1), 4-16.
Bannon, F. (2010) Dance: the possibilities of a discipline,
Research in Dance Education 11 (1), 49-59.
Magdziarz, S., Myers, P. and Bellamy, S.(2012) The Integrative Nature of Threshold Concepts in Financial Accounting - An Exploration of the Interdisciplinarity of One Threshold Concept,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 75-76 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
O’Keeffe, M. (2012) Exploration of the Use of Handheld Personal Response Systems with First Year Accountancy Students for Deep Learning and Understanding,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 108-109 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
O’Neill, S. and Wolfe, K. (2012) Officers’ Due Diligence - Making Work Health and Safety an Accounting Problem?,
11th Australasian Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (A-CSEAR) Conference, University of Wollongong, 2-4 December 2012
http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028&context=acsear2012 [last accessed 4 December 2012].
McGuigan, N. and Weil, S. (2011) Transforming Student Preconceptions of Introductory Accounting: Galloping Over the Biggest Threshold of them all!,
Proceedings of the Seventh International Critical Management Studies Conference (CMS7 2011), Faculty of Economics, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, July 11-13, 2011 and Doctorial Consortium, Villa Orlandi, Capri, July 14-16, 2011, 22 pages: http://www.organizzazione.unina.it/cms7/proceedings/proceedings_stream_33/McGuigan_and_Weil.pdf.
Lucas, U. (2011) Towards A ‘Scholarship of Teaching and Learning’: The Individual and the Communal Journey,
Accounting Education, 20 (3), 239-243.
Stoner, G. and Milner, M. (2011) Embedding generic employability skills in an accounting degree: development and impediments,
Accounting Education, 19 (1-2), 123-138.
[http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/25718/1/25718.pdf last accessed 10 February 2012]
McGuigan, N. and Weil, S. (2010) Transforming Student Preconceptions of Introductory Accounting: Galloping Over the Biggest Threshold of them all!,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Weil, S. and McGuigan, N. (2010) Threshold Concepts in the Bank Reconciliation Section of an Introductory Accounting Course: Creating an Ontological Shift for Students,
in: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Baillie, C., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 333-345, [book details].
Whittaker, S. (2010) Threshold concepts in teaching auditing: transformations experienced during the learning journeys of auditing lecturers,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Lucas, U. and Mladenovic, R. (2007) The potential of threshold concepts: an emerging framework for educational research and practice,
London Review of Education, Vol. 5, No. 3, November 2007, pp. 237-248
Decker, S. (2006) Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development: the redesign of an Economics module,
Investigations in university teaching and learning, 4 (1), 24-36
[http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/library/p74115_3.pdf last accessed 27 May 2010]
Lucas, U. and Mladenovic, R. (2006) Developing new world views: threshold concepts in introductory accounting,
in: Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge, edited by Jan H. F. Meyer and Ray Land,
Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, pp 100-114 [book details].
Gray, M. and Blake, A. (2013) Threshold concepts in property education: a case study.,
19th Annual Pacific-Rim Real Estate Society Conference, 13-16 January 2013, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (In
Press): http://eprints.qut.edu.au/56510/ (last accessed 22 January 2013)
Davies, P. (2012) Threshold concepts in economics eduction,
in the International Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Economics, Eds. G.M. Holt and KM. McGoldrick, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, USA, 2012, Chapter 24, pp 250-256.
Davies, P. (2011) Conceptual change using the perspective of threshold concepts: evidence from economics,
Institue of Physics (IOP) Higher Education Group Meeting, Conceptual understanding: Beyond diagnostic testing, University of Warwick, Department of Physics, 21 October 2011: http://www.iop.org/activity/groups/subject/hed/calendar/info/file_56266.pdf [last accessed 16 July 2012]
Olczak, M. (2011) Evaluating the impact of a web-based resource on student learning,
SSRN (Social Science Research Network) April 1, 2011: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1822665 last accessed: 6 May 2011
Davies, P. (2010) Transforming knowledge structures: A procedure for developing students' understanding of threshold concepts,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Davies, P. and Mangan, J. (2010) Assessing Progression of Students’ Economic Understanding: The role of threshold concepts,
in: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Baillie, C., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 193-206, [book details].
Nurick, R. (2010) Threshold concepts and economics: a critique of the approach for enhancing student teaching and learning,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
O’Donnell, R. (2010) A Critique of the Threshold Concept Hypothesis and an Application in Economics,
University of Technology Sydney, School of Finance and Economics, UTS Business, Working Paper 164 http://www.finance.uts.edu.au/research/wpapers/wp164.pdf (last accessed 1 June 2011).
O’Donnell, R. (2010) A critical perspective on threshold concepts and a prominent application in economics,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Pang, M.F. and Meyer, J.H.F. (2010) Modes of Variation in Pupil’s Apprehension of a Threshold Concept in Economics,
in: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Baillie, C., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 365-381, [book details].
Shanahan, M., Bredon, G., Meyer, J.H.F. and Wilson, J. (2010) Introductory university economics and prerequisite conceptual change: an exploratory analysis of mathematical thresholds,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Shanahan, M. P., Foster, G. and Meyer, J.H.F. (2010) Threshold Concepts and Attrition in First-Year Economics,
in: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Baillie, C., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 207-226, [book details].
Ward, S.C. and Meyer, J.H.F, (2010) Metalearning capacity and threshold concept engagement,
Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 47 (4), 369-378.
Tang, T. and Robinson, T. (2010) Threshold Concepts and Academic Performance in Economics,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Mangan, J. and Davies, P. (2009). Diagrams, modelling and the progression of students in economics,
The 13th European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (Earli) Biennial Conference: Fostering Communities of Learners, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August 25-29, 2009.
Abstract: http://www.earli2009.org/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=487
Pang, M.F. and Meyer, J.H.F. (2009). Exploring the modes of variation in pupils’ apprehension of the threshold concept of opportunity cost in Economics,
The 13th European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (Earli) Biennial Conference: Fostering Communities of Learners, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August 25-29, 2009.
Abstract: http://www.earli2009.org/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=487
Shanahan, M., Meyer, J.H.F. and Foster, G. (2009). Learning to leave: factors associated with attrition among first-year university students,
The 13th European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (Earli) Biennial Conference: Fostering Communities of Learners, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August 25-29, 2009.
Abstract: http://www.earli2009.org/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=487
Walsh, M. (2009) The Application of Threshold Concepts in Economics Using Classroom Games with Business Students,
Fifth International Developments in Economics Education (DEE) Conference, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, UK, 9-10 September 2009
[http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/dee2009/presentations/walsh.ppt last accessed 18 March 2011]
Ashwin, A. (2008) What do Students’ Examination Answers Reveal about Threshold Concept Acquisition in the 14-19 Age Groups?,
in: Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Smith, J., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp 173-184, [book details].
Shanahan, M., Foster, G. and Meyer, J.H.F. (2008) Associations among Prior Acquisitions of Threshold Concepts, Learning Dimensions, and Examination Performance in First-Year Economics,
in: Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Smith, J., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp 155-172, [book details].
Davies, P. and Mangan, J. (2007) Threshold concepts and integration of understanding in economics,
Studies in Higher Education, 32 (6) 711-726.
Davies, P. and Mangan, J. (2007) Threshold Concepts in Economics: Implications for teaching, learning and assessment,
The Handbook for Economics Lectureres, The Higher Education Academy (HEA) Economics Network: http://economicsnetwork.ac.uk/handbook/threshold-concepts [last accessed 23 September 2009]
Gray, K. and Yavash, P., (2007) Identifying problematic Economics threshold concepts and evaluating their contribution to student performance: the case of MBA students studying Business Economics,
Higher Education Academy (HEA) Mini-Project: Final Report: http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/projects/mini/yavash_finalreport06-07.doc [last accessed 20 July 2011]
Decker, S. (2006) Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development: the redesign of an Economics module,
Investigations in university teaching and learning, 4 (1), 24-36
[http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/library/p74115_3.pdf last accessed 27 May 2010]
Reimann, N. and Jackson, I. (2006) Threshold concepts in Economics: a case study,
in: Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge, edited by Jan H. F. Meyer and Ray Land,
[Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, pp 115-133 [book details].
Shanahan, M., Foster, G. and Meyer, J.H.F. (2006) Operationalising a Threshold Concept in Economics: A Pilot Study Using Multiple Choice Questions on Opportunity Cost,
International Review of Economics Education, 5 (2), 29-57. http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/iree/v5n2/shanahan.pdf last accessed 17 December 2009]
Shanahan, M. and Meyer, J.H.F. (2006) The troublesome nature of a threshold concepts in Economics,
in: Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge, edited by Jan H. F. Meyer and Ray Land,
Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, pp 100-114 [book details].
Pope-Ruark, R. (2012) Exploring Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Approaches to Business Communication Research,
Business Communication Quarterly, 75 (3), 237-251.
Wood, L. and Hoadley, S.(2012) Threshold Concepts in First Year Business,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 86 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
Poole, G. (2011) Helping Students Find the Gateways into Our Disciplines: Identifying and Using Threshold Concepts,
Keynote Presentation: Business Educators' Articulation Conference, BEAC 2011, 5th-6th May 2011, Camosun College Interurban Campus, School of Business, British Columbia, Canada. http://bus.camosun.bc.ca/beac/speakers/speakers.html last accessed 17 March 2011]
O’Donovan, B. (2010) Troublesome courses: intellectual development in multidisciplinary programmes,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Graham, A. and Coghlan, D. (2009) Creating the learning space for insider inquiry: Threshold concepts in observing organisations,
Improving Student Learning through the Curriculum. 16th International Symposium, Improving Student Learning, University of Durham, September 2008, edited by C. Rust , Vol. 16, Oxford Brookes University, 2009, pp220 - 232.
Walsh, M. (2009) The Application of Threshold Concepts in Economics Using Classroom Games with Business Students,
Fifth International Developments in Economics Education (DEE) Conference, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, UK, 9-10 September 2009
[http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/dee2009/presentations/walsh.ppt last accessed 18 March 2011]
Graham, A. (2008) Exploring How the ‘Learning Space’ of an Executive Education Programme can Facilitate Students’ Understanding of EMBA Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge,
Paper presented at the Second Biennual Symposium on Threshold Concepts, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Graham, A. and Potter, J (2008) Threshold Concepts: Enabling Open Dialogue on Teaching and Learning within and across Traditional Boundaries?,
Paper to be published as part of the proceedings of the NAIRTL 2nd Annual Conference. Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Challenging Assumptions, 13-14 November, 2008, at Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford.
Hays, J. (2008) Threshold and transformation,
European Journal of Management, Vol. 8. No. 3.
Pol, E. (2012) Innovation and economic education: an integration,
Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research, in press:
University of Wollongong Research Online: http://ro.uow.edu.au/commpapers/2910 (last accessed 7 January 2013)
Pol, E. (2008) Teaching and Learning Business Innovation by Successive Approximations,
8th Global Conference on Business & Economics, Florence, Italy, October 18-19th, 2008
[http://www.gcbe.us/8th_GCBE/data/Eduardo%20Pol.doc last accessed 24 April 2009]
Hokstad, L.M., Flanagan, M.T., Zimmermann, M., Ackermann, G.,Andersen, B. and Fradinho, M. (2012) A Comparative Academic/Industrial Professional Development Study of Threshold Concepts in Project Management
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 24 [last accessed 28 June 2012].
Dyer, S. and Hurd, F. (2011) Generating Learning Environments for Critical Management Education: Where Are We Now, Where Should We Be Heading? Critical pedagogy and surface learning techniques: An oxymoron, or the prerequisite for deep-learning?,
Proceedings of the Seventh International Critical Management Studies Conference (CMS7 2011), Faculty of Economics, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, July 11-13, 2011 and Doctorial Consortium, Villa Orlandi, Capri, July 14-16, 2011, Full Paper - 13 pages: http://www.organizzazione.unina.it/cms7/proceedings/proceedings_stream_35/Dyer_and_Hurd.pdf (last accessed 5 July 2011)
Wright, A.L. and Gilmore, A. (2012) Threshold Concepts and Conceptions: Student Learning in Introductory Management Courses,
Journal of Management Education, 36 (5), 614-635.
Yip, J. and Raelin, J.A. (2011) Threshold Concepts and Modalities for Teaching Leadership Practice,
Boston University School of Management Research Paper Series: No. 2011-17
Full paper (48 pages) available through a link at SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1907975 (last accessed; 17 November 2011)
Flanagan, M., Zimmermann, M., Ackermann, G., Hokstad, L.M., Andersen, B. and Fradinho, M. (2010) Transformational Learning and Serious Game Design,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Abstract: http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~mflanaga/FlanaganM_etal.pdf.
Coughlan, P. and Graham, A. (2009) Embedding a Threshold Concept in Teaching and Learning of Product Development Management,
Creativity and Innovation Management, 18 (3), 190-198.
García-Rosell, J-C. (2013) A multi-stakeholder perspective on sustainable marketing: promoting sustainability through action and research,
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Lapland Faculty of Social Sciences, Acta Electronica Universitatis Lapponiensis 111 http://doria17-kk.lib.helsinki.fi/handle/10024/88826 (last accessed: 8 April 2013)
Lye, A. (2006) Threshold Concept: Reflections on Education in Marketing,
Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC) Conference 2006, The School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 4-6 December 2006.
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Education for Chemical Engineers: Available on-line February 2013, DOI: doi:10.1016/j.ece.2013.02.002.
Davey, K. (2012) Results from a study with Threshold Concepts in two chemical engineering undergraduate courses,
Education for Chemical Engineers 7 (3), e139-e152.
Byrne, E.P. and Fitzpatrick, J.J. (2009) Chemical engineering in an unsustainable world: Obligations and opportunities,
Education for Chemical Engineers, 4 (4), 51-74.
Reed, B. (2012) How green is my project? Developing a curriculum for environmental education of civil engineers,
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Cernusca, D. and Bham, G.H. (2011): Application of Threshold Concepts to Improve a Design-Focused Course in Transportation Engineering,
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2211, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2011, pp. 10-17: http://trb.metapress.com/content/4x7w3w51427276gk/fulltext.pdf?page=1 last accessed 17 November 2011
Bernhard,, J, Carstensen,, A-K. and Holmberg,, M. (2012) Understanding Phase as an Entrance to the Portal of Understanding in Physics and Electrical Engineering
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 77 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
Carstensen,, A-K. (2012) Make Links - Overcoming the Threshold and Entering the Portal of Understanding
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 37-38 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
Foley, B. (2012) Engineering Problem Solving: Uncovering a Threshold Experience and Triggering a Meta-Learning Response
Keynote Presentation, Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 17 [last accessed 28 June 2012].
Harlow, A., Peter, M., Scott, J. and Cowie, B. (2012) Students' Perceptions of Travel Through the Liminal Space: Lessons for Teaching
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 37 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
Lyons, W. (2012) Will an m-Learning Technique Promote Student Understanding of Problematic Knowledge and Key Threshold Concepts?
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 107 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
Scott,, J, Harlow,, A. and Peter,, M. (2012) Towards a TCT-Inspired Electronics Concept Inventory
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 89-90 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
Foley, B. (2011) Threshold Concepts in Disciplinary Settings: Problem Solving in Electronic Engineering,
National Academy for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NAIRTL) document: http://www.nairtl.ie/documents/Foley_TCinDisciplinarySettings.pdf (last accessed; 30 October 2011)
Harlow, A., Scott, J., Peter, M. and Cowie, B. (2011) “Getting stuck” in analogue electronics: threshold concepts as an explanatory model,
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Murray, S. (2012) A Shakespeare Threshold: Engaging Students in Understanding Prosody,
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Orsini-Jones, M., Cribb, M., Jones, D., Graham, R., Lund, R. and Lee, F., (2010) Student-driven and threshold-concept-informed curricular change,
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Orsini-Jones, M. (2009) Shared spaces and ‘secret gardens’: the troublesome journey from undergraduate students to undergraduate scholars via PebblePad,
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Day, H. (2007) Helicopters, Jigsaws, and Plaits: Revealing the Hidden Language and Literature Curriculum,
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Pedagogy, 7 (3) 401-425.
Gilvary, G. (2012) An Overview of the Application of Enquiry Based Learning and Threshold Concepts in Practice Based Arts,
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Sandri, O.J. (2013) Threshold concepts, systems and learning for sustainability
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Lönngren, J. (2012) Thresholds in Engineering Education for Sustainability - Beyond Transdisciplinarity
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Reed, B. (2012) How green is my project? Developing a curriculum for environmental education of civil engineers,
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Roberts, J. (2011) Video diaries: a tool to investigate sustainability-related learning in threshold spaces,
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Kiilo, T. and Kutsar, D. (2012) Exploring constructivist social learning practices in aiding Russian-speaking teachers to learn Estonian: an action research approach,
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Bolsius, J. and Williams, B. (2013) ‘Bridging that Gap’ Between Foundation Degrees and Top-Up to Honours Level: the transition experiences of students entering level 6 at the University of Worcester,
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Male, S. (2011) Today’s Relevance of Feminist Theory and Gender Inclusive Engineering Curricula to Help Students Overcome Thresholds in Engineering Education,
15th International Conference for Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWEST15), 19-22 July 2011, Adelaide, Australia.
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Hall, B. (2012) “How Do You Know?” The Threshold Concept, Multi-Disciplinary Approaches and the Age of Uncertainty,
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Geography
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Bampton, M. (2012) Addressing misconceptions, threshold concepts, and troublesome knowledge in GIScience education,
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Healy, R. L. (2012) Ethical thinking in a disciplinary context: The ethical development of undergraduates and expectations of tutors in the arts, social and pure sciences,
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Slinger, J. (2011) Threshold Concepts in Secondary Geography Education,
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Slinger, J. (2010) Threshold Concepts in Secondary Geography Education,
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Srivastava, S.K. (2010) Transformative and integrative dimensions of identified threshold concepts in geographical information,
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Geology
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Teed, R. and Slattery, W. (2011) Changes in Geologic Time Understanding in a Class for Preservice Teachers,
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Srivastava, S. K. (2013) Threshold concepts in geographical information systems: a step towards conceptual understanding,
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Srivastava, S.K. (2012) Threshold concepts framework: An effective approach to address future spatial sciences pedagogical challenges
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General Aspects across geography and earth sciences
Wood, P. (2012) Blogs as liminal space: student teachers at the threshold,
Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 21 (1), 85-99.
Trend, R.D. (2010). Links between threshold concepts, student interest and geoscience learning trajectories,
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Higgs, B, (2008) Integrating concepts of integrative learning,
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McHanwell, S. (2012) Consensus statements and core syllabuses in anatomy: issues and validation,
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McHanwell, S. and Smith, C.F. (2012) Teaching anatomy to students in professions allied to medicine,
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Smith, C. (2012) Anatomy learning: bringing it all together, and what it means for us as educators and for students,
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Course Design
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European Journal of Dental Education 15(4) 210-215
Tsang, A.K.L. (2011) Students as evolving professionals - turning the hidden curriculum around through the threshold concept pedagogy,
Transformative Dialogues: Teaching & Learning Journal 4 (3) 1-11 (March 2011): http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:241413/tsang2011.pdff last accessed 10 February 2012
Kinchin, I.M., Cabot, L.B. & Hay, D.B. (2010) Visualising expertise: Revealing the nature of a threshold concept in the development of an authentic pedagogy for clinical education,
in: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Baillie, C., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 81-95, [book details].
O’Neill, S. and Wolfe, K. (2012) Officers’ Due Diligence - Making Work Health and Safety an Accounting Problem?,
11th Australasian Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (A-CSEAR) Conference, University of Wollongong, 2-4 December 2012
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Health Promotion
Dixey, R., Cross, R., Foster, S. and Woodall, J. (2012) The Foundations of Health Promotion,
in Health Promotion: Global Principles and Practice, Ed. R. Dixey, Modular Texts, CAB International, Wallingford, UK, pp 1-29.
Medicine
Bate, E. and Taylor, D.C.M. (2013) Twelve tips on how to survive PBL as a medical student,
Medical Teacher 35 (2), 95-100.
Evgeniou, E. and Loizou, P. (2012) The Theoretical Base of E-Learning and Its Role in Surgical Education,
Journal of Surgical Education, 69 (5), 65-669.
Meek, S. and Jamieson, S. (2012) Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge in the First Year Curriculum at a UK Medical School,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 122-123 [last accessed 11 July 2012].
Ryan, T. (2012) Medical Student Reflections of Newborn Medicine: Looking Back for Threshold Concepts,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 26-27 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Fry, H. and Kneebone, R. (2011) Surgical Education: Theorising an Emerging Domain,
Advances in Medical Education, Vol. 2, 1st Edition, Eds. Fry, H., & Kneebone, R., Springer, August 2011.
Land, R. and Meyer, J.H.F. (2011) The scalpel and the ‘mask’ threshold concepts and surgical education,
in Surgical Education: Theorising an Emerging Domain, Advances in Medical Education, Vol. 2, 1st Edition, Eds. Fry, H. & Kneebone, R., Springer, August 2011, Chapter 6.
Littlewood, K.E. (2011) High fidelity simulation as a research tool,
Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology, 25, 473-487
Mitchell , E.L., Lee, D.Y., Liem , T.K., Landry, G.J. and Moneta, G.L. (2011) A Fresh Cadaver Lab to Conceptualize Troublesome Anatomical Relationships in Vascular Surgery,
Society for clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS) 39th Annual Symposium, 16-19 March, 2011, Orlando, Florida, USA
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Kneebone, R. (2009) Perspective: Simulation and Transformational Change: The Paradox of Expertise,
Academic Medicine, 84 (7), 954-957.
Trevitt, C. (2008) Learning in academia is more than academic learning: action research in academic practice for and with medical academics,
Educational Action Research, 16 (4), 495-515.
Stacey, G. and Stickley, T. (2012) Recovery as a threshold concept in mental health nurse education,
Nurse Education Today, 32 (5), 534-539.
Harrison, D. and Killett, A. (2010) Preparing Occupational Therapy Students for Mental Health Practice at the University of East Anglia: An Integrated Approach,
Living and Learning, Learning and Teaching: mental health in higher education, Lancaster University, 30-31 March 2010, Conference Proceedings: http://www.mhhe.heacademy.ac.uk/silo/files/deborah-harrison.pdf (last accessed 10 October 2010)
Nambiar-Greenwood, G. (2010) The role of mental health as a ‘threshold concept’ for promoting patient-centred care for inter-professional health students
The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice, 5 (4), 12-17.
Chalasani, P. (2010) Health & Illness; Sanity and Insanity; Biological and Psychological...: Are They Real or Abstracts?,
Living and Learning, Learning and Teaching: mental health in higher education, Lancaster University, 30-31 March 2010:
[http://www.mhhe.heacademy.ac.uk/silo/files/padmaja-chalasani.pdf last accessed 17 September 2010]
Wells, H. and Hay, D. B. (2008) The impact of lecturer’s academic development on the quality of their students’ learning. III. The importance of students’ prior-knowledge structure in mental health nursing,
Poster presented at the King’s Learning Institute Conference, King’s College London, July 4, 2008. London:
http://mykcl.com/content/1/c6/02/74/90/III-IOP.pdf (last accessed 10 August 2010)
Nursing
McAllister, M., Oprescu, F., Downer, T., Lyons, M., Pelly, F. and Barr, N. (2013) Evaluating STAR - a transformative learning framework: interdisciplinary action research in health training,
Educational Action Research 21 (1), 90-106.
Angell, C. and Taylor, A.M. (2012) Alien knowledge: Preparing student midwives for learning about infant feeding-Education practice at a UK university,
Nurse Education Today (2012), Available on-line 26 November 2012; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2012.10.013
List, S. (2012) Scientific Thinking as a Threshold Concept in Nursing Education: Transforming Avoidance into Engagement,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 106-107 [last accessed 6 July 2012].
McAllister, M. (2011) STAR: A Transformative Learning Framework for Nurse Educators,
Journal of Transformative Education, 9(1), 42-58.
Martindale, L., Walsh, L. and Land, R. (2012) Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing Education: Exploring Learning and Practice Thresholds,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 121-122 [last accessed 6 July 2012].
Stacey, G. and Stickley, T. (2012) Recovery as a threshold concept in mental health nurse education,
Nurse Education Today, 32 (5), 534-539.
Sweeney, J., Hegarty, J., Condon, C., O'Shea, M., Flynn, A., Marsh, L., Phelan, A., Cummins, A., Creedon, S. and O'Mahony, K. (2012) Assessment of Learning in the Clinical Practice Environment: Using an On-Line Tool to Help Students Understand the Abstract Nature of Steinaker and Bell's (1979) Experiential Taxonomy,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 86-87 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
McCabe, B. (2010) Identifying threshold concepts specific to science learning in nursing and the development of teaching approaches to facilitate their crossing.,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Galligan, L. (2010) Examining personal and contextual threshold concepts in academic numeracy,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Wells, H. and Hay, D. B. (2008) The impact of lecturer’s academic development on the quality of their students’ learning. III. The importance of students’ prior-knowledge structure in mental health nursing,
Poster presented at the King’s Learning Institute Conference, King’s College London, July 4, 2008. London:
http://mykcl.com/content/1/c6/02/74/90/III-IOP.pdf (last accessed 10 August 2010)
Dearnley, C. and Matthew, B. (2007) Factors that contribute to undergraduate student success,
Teaching in Higher Education, 12 (3), 377-391.
Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy
Ghul, R. and Marsh, I. (2013) Teaching participation in occupations to first year occupational therapy students: an action research study,
British Journal of Occupational Therapy 76 (2), 101-107.
McAllister, M., Oprescu, F., Downer, T., Lyons, M., Pelly, F. and Barr, N. (2013) Evaluating STAR - a transformative learning framework: interdisciplinary action research in health training,
Educational Action Research 21 (1), 90-106.
Barradell, S. (2012) Using a Professional Community to Support the Identification of Threshold Concepts: A Physiotherapy Example,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 116 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Barradell, S. (2012) Visible Learning of Threshold Concepts - An Example of an Assessment Task Using Concept Mapping,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 72-73 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Clouder, L. and Adefila, A.(2012) The Trouble with Responsibility: Exploring the Interaction of Tacit Knowledge and Ritualized Practices in Giving Students Responsibility on Placement,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 83 [last accessed 3 July 2012].
Fortune, T., Ennals, P. and Kennedy-Jones, K. (2012) Transforming Learning and Learners: The Promise of Process Oriented Threshold Concepts,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 64-65 [last accessed 3 July 2012].
Hills, C., Ryan, S., Studdert, C. and Nguyen, K. (2012) Evidencing Graduating Competency in Occupational Therapy: Resources and Thresholds to Evidence Competence,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 104 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Johansson, C. (2012) Using Language to Transform Judgemental Attitudes,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 76 [last accessed 5 July 2012].
Rodger, S., Turpin, M. and Springfield, L. (2012) Experiences of Academic Staff in Using Threshold Concepts in Occupational Therapy Curricula to Engage Students,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 51-52 [last accessed 7 July 2012].
Springfield, L. (2012) Using Assessment Activities to Engage Students with Threshold Concepts,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 109-110 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
Studdert, C., Ryan, S., Hills, C. and Nguyen, K. (2012) Creating an Occupational Therapy Student-Centred Website and e-Portfolio using a Threshold Level Framework to Evidence Competence and Professional Development,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 125-126 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
Perry, J., Green, A. and Harrison, K. (2011) The impact of Masters education in manual and manipulative therapy and the ‘knowledge acquisition model’,
Manual Therapy, 16 (3), 285-290.
Tanner, B. (2011) Threshold concepts in practice education: perceptions of practice educators,
British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 74 (9), 427-434.
Royeen, C. B., Jensen, G. M., Chapman, T. A. and Ciccone, T. (2010) Is Interprofessionality a Threshold Concept for Education and Health Care Practice?,
Journal of Allied Health, Volume 39, Supplement 1, Fall 2010 , pp. 251-252
Rodger, S., Turpin, M. and O’Brien, M. (2010) Applying threshold concepts to reform professional curriculum,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Harrison, D. and Killett, A. (2010) Preparing Occupational Therapy Students for Mental Health Practice at the University of East Anglia: An Integrated Approach,
Living and Learning, Learning and Teaching: mental health in higher education, Lancaster University, 30-31 March 2010, Conference Proceedings: http://www.mhhe.heacademy.ac.uk/silo/files/deborah-harrison.pdf (last accessed 10 October 2010)
Clouder, L. (2005) Caring as a ‘threshold concept’: transforming students in higher education into health(care) professionals,
Teaching in Higher Education, 10 (4), 505-517.
Hill, S. (2012) Troublesome or Threshold? The experience of difficult concepts in prosthetics,
PhD thesis, Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK, June 2012 http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/61627/1/Hill.pdf (last accessed: 23 March 2013)
Evans, M.O. (2011) Teaching Psychotherapy: Case Discussion Groups,
in Teaching Psychiatry: Putting Theory into Practice, Eds: Gask, L., Coskun, B, and Baron, D., Chapter 10, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Sibbett, C. and Thompson, W. (2008) Nettlesome knowledge, Liminality and Taboo in Cancer and Art Therapy Experiences,
In: Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Smith, J., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp 227-242, [book details].
Social Work
Bolsius, J. and Williams, B. (2013) ‘Bridging that Gap’ Between Foundation Degrees and Top-Up to Honours Level: the transition experiences of students entering level 6 at the University of Worcester,
University of Worcester Academic Development and Practice Unit Research Document: http://www.worc.ac.uk/adpu/documents/Briony_Williams_Bridging_the_Gap.pdf (last accessed: 23 March 2013)
Foote, W. (2013) Threshold Theory and Social Work Education,
Social Work Education, 32 (4), 424-438.
Kirwan, G. (2012) Up Close and Personal: Engaging Learners with Service-User Perspectives,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 100 [last accessed 6 July 2012].
Reeve, D. (2012) Preparation for Practice: Can Philosophy Have a Place in Helping Students Incorporate the Social Model of Disability Within Their Praxis?,
Social Work Education, 31 (2), 227-234
Morgan, H. (2012) The Social Model of Disability as a Threshold Concept: Troublesome Knowledge and Liminal Spaces in Social Work Education,
Social Work Education, 31 (2), 215-226.
Awarded the Social Work Education Journal's best conceptual article of 2012. See Best Paper Awards for details.
Taylor, M. and Share, P. (2012) Threshold Concepts and the Social Professions,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 126-127 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
Cronin, J. (2012) ‘Doing’ history: what may liminal space and transition time expose during the process of mentoring new graduate tutors in the discipline of history?,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 79-80 [last accessed 1 July 2012].
Pace, D., Diaz, A., Middendorf, J. and Shopkow, L. (2012) Mastering a Threshold Concept through Decoding the Disciplines,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 55-56 [last accessed 1 July 2012].
Sendziuk, P. (2012) Helping Students to ‘Think Historically’ by Engaging with Threshold Concepts,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 78-79 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
Macdonald, J. and and Black, A. (2010) Disciplinary Knowledge Practices in Distance Education: Testing a new methodology for teaching enhancement in History,
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 9 (1) 69-86.
Shopkow, L. (2010) What decoding the disciplines can offer threshold concepts,
in: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Baillie, C., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 317-331, [book details].
King, V. (2013) Self-portrait with mortar board: a study of academic identity using the map, the novel and the grid,
Higher Education Research & Development, 32 (1), 96-108.
Gilrane, C. (2012) Shifting Identity in Teacher Development,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 44 [last accessed 3 July 2012].
McLean, N. (2012) Researching academic identity: using discursive psychology as an approach,
International Journal for Academic Development, 17 (2), 97-108
Smith, J. (2011) Resonance, Dissonance, Rejection: Experiences of Probationary Lecturers in UK Higher Education,
PhD Thesis, School of Education, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, July 2011: http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/35822/
Smith, J. (2010) Forging identities: the experiences of probationary lecturers in the UK,
Studies in Higher Education, 35 (5), 577-591.
Ackland, A. (2008) Transforming Professional Identities in a CPD Community of Enquiry,
ESREA (European Society for Research on the Education of Adults), Access, Learning Careers and Identities Network Conference: Educational Journeys and Changing Lives, University of Seville, Spain, 10 -12 December 2008. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/cll/about/news/esrea/abstracts/ackland_paper.pdf (last accessed 11 August 2009).
Higgs, B, (2008) Integrating concepts of integrative learning,
In: Emerging Issues II, The Changing Roles and Identities of Teachers and Learners in Higher Education, National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learing, University College Cork, Ireland, Eds. Higgs, B. & McCarthy, M., pp 63 - 74. ISBN 978-1-906642-02-3
Learner Identity
Koole, M. L. (2013) Identity Positioning of Doctoral Students in Networked Learning Environments,
Doctor of Philosophy thesis, Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK, February, 2013. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/64294/ (last accessed: 7 May 2013)
Blair, L., Fitch, S. and Barrington, J. (2012) Art Education and Troublesome Knowledge: Helping Students Form Identities as Artist Teachers,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 35-36 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Koole, M. (2012) A Social Constructionist Approach to Phenomenographic Analysis of Identity Positioning in Networked Learning,
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Networked Learning 2012, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2-4 April 2012, Eds, Hodgson V, Jones C, de Laat M, McConnell D, Ryberg T & Sloep P, pp 488-495: http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/abstracts/pdf/koole.pdf [last accessed 13 August 2012].
Koole, M. (2012) Ontological and Epistemological Threshold Crossings of Doctoral Students in Networked Learning Environments: My Ontolo.... What?,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 66 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
Koole, M. (2012) A Social Constructionist Approach to Phenomenographic Analysis of Identity Positioning in Networked Learning,
To be presented at the 8th International Conference on Networked Learning, 2-4 April 2012, Maastricht, The Netherlands:
Abstract: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/organisations/netlc/abstracts/koole_smposium.html (last accessed 13 February 2012).
Martindale, L., Walsh, L. and Land, R. (2012) Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing Education: Exploring Learning and Practice Thresholds,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 121-122 [last accessed 6 July 2012].
Wertzler, L. and Gale, R. (2012) Self as a Learner as a Threshold Concept: The University Journey,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 66-67 [last accessed 11 July 2012].
Åkerlind, G., McKenzie, J. and Wilson, A., (2010) Adapting educational theory to discipline pedagogy: integrating research, teaching and scholarship.,
Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Research Conference 2010, ‘Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?’; Exploring Meaning, Identities and Transformation in Higher Education, 14 - 16 December 2010, Celtic Manor Resort, South Wales, UK.
[http://www.srhe.ac.uk/conference2010/abstracts/0209.pdf last accessed 17 March 2011]
Quinlan, A, Farrell, H. and Hogben, P. (2010) Attending to liminality: Constructing an identity as a student of Architecture through experiential learning,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Ross, P., Hughes, C., Lutze-Mann, L., Parker, P., Taylor, C., Tzioumis, V. and Whitaker, N. (2010) Crossing the threshold - Language and identity in learning concepts in biology,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Higgs, B, (2008) Integrating concepts of integrative learning,
In: Emerging Issues II, The Changing Roles and Identities of Teachers and Learners in Higher Education, National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learing, University College Cork, Ireland, Eds. Higgs, B. & McCarthy, M., pp 63 - 74. ISBN 978-1-906642-02-3
Castaño, M.A., Marqués, M., Satorre, R., Jaume i Capó, A. and López, D. (2011) Tengo una respuesta para usted sobre estilos de aprendizaje, creencias y cambios en los estudiantes,
[I have an answer for you about learning styles, beliefs and changes in student]
Capítulo 21 en el libro TICAI (TICs Aplicadas para el aprendizaje de la Ingeniería), 2011, pp.151-158. http://personals.ac.upc.edu/david/recerca/papers/TICAI2010.pdf [last accessed 27 August 2012].
Daniels, M. (2011) Developing and Assessing Professional Competencies: Experiences from an Open-Ended Group Project Learning Environment,
Acta Universitatis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 738. 109pp. Uppsala. ISSN 1651-6214
ISBN 978-91-554-8024-0
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Cajander, Å., Eriksson, E. and Gulliksen, J. (2010) Towards a Usability Coaching Method for Institutionalizing Usability in Organisations,
Proceedings of Human-Computer Interaction: Second IFIP TC 13 Symposium, HCIS 2010, held as part of WCC 2010, Brisbane, Australia, Seprtember 20-23, 2010, Eds: Peter Forbrig, Fabio Paternó and Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Publisher: Springer, pp 86-87.
Cope, C. and Staehr, L., (2008) Improving Student Learning About a Threshold Concept in the IS Discipline,
Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 11, 349-364.
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Interdisciplinarity, Transdisciplinarity and Multidisciplinarity
I have incuded these three titles in one section as it was not clear in some reports whether the integrative aspect that carries a multidisciplinary activity through to an interdisciplinary activity was present or not. The inclusion of these three titles together in no way implies an equivalence between exclusively multidisciplinary activities and true interdisciplinary activities.
McAllister, M., Oprescu, F., Downer, T., Lyons, M., Pelly, F. and Barr, N. (2013) Evaluating STAR - a transformative learning framework: interdisciplinary action research in health training,
Educational Action Research 21 (1), 90-106.
Boggs, K. (2012) Spatial Cognition, a Multi-Disciplinary Threshold Concept
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 21 [last accessed 28 June 2012].
Boyd, D. (2012) Growth Mindset: An Interdisciplinary Threshold Concept in Course Design,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 82 [last accessed 7 July 2012].
Brunetti, K., Hofer, A. R. and Townsend, L. (2012) Interdisciplinarity and Information Literacy Instruction: A Threshold Concepts Approach,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 40-41 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Cowart, M. (2012) Interdisciplinary Threshold Concepts: An Ontological and Epistemological Analysis,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 81 [last accessed 3 July 2012].
Greer, K., McLoughlin, A., Duffy, E. and Meehan, A. (2012) Transforming the Practioners: An Exploration of the Application of Threshold Concepts to a Multidisciplinary Professional Development Masters Course in Christian Leadership,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 118 [last accessed 3 July 2012].
Hill, S. (2012) The Same but Different: Troublesomeness when Students' and the Lecturer's Disciplines Do Not Match,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 111-112 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Horn, J. (2012) The Process and Lessons Learned in Developing Interdisciplinary Threshold Concepts,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 119 [last accessed 5 July 2012].
Keefer, J. and Parchoma, G. (2012) The Experience of Interdisciplinarity in Doctoral Research: Threshold Journey,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 61-62 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
Lönngren, J. (2012) Thresholds in Engineering Education for Sustainability - Beyond Transdisciplinarity
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 113 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
MacKay, B. (2012) Threshold Concepts in Liberal Education,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 81 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
Magdziarz, S., Myers, P. and Bellamy, S.(2012) The Integrative Nature of Threshold Concepts in Financial Accounting - An Exploration of the Interdisciplinarity of One Threshold Concept,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 75-76 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
Male, S.A., Guzzomi, A.L. and Baillie, C. (2012) Interdisciplinary threshold concepts in engineering,
Refereed papers from the 35th HERDSA Annual International Conference, 2-5 July 2012, Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart, Australia, in Brown, N., Jones S. M. and Adam, A. (Eds.), Research and Development in Higher Education: Connections in Higher Education, 35, pp 151-159: http://www.herdsa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/conference/2012/HERDSA_2012_Male.pdf [last accessed 11 July 2012]
O’Neill, S. and Wolfe, K. (2012) Officers’ Due Diligence - Making Work Health and Safety an Accounting Problem?,
11th Australasian Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (A-CSEAR) Conference, University of Wollongong, 2-4 December 2012
http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028&context=acsear2012 [last accessed 4 December 2012].
Peter, M. and Harlow, A. (2012) Teaching and Grasping Threshold Concepts: Four Disciplines and One Paradigm
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 22-23 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
Ryan, A.M. (2012) Seeing deeply in space and through time: interdisciplinarity meets Threshold Concepts in Earth and Environmental Science
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 21-22 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
Tracy, F. and Jordan, K. (2012) Students as designers of semantic web applications,
Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 21 (2), 171-188.
Thompson, R. (2012) Criticality as a Threshold Concept, Defined and Limited by Disciplinary Power
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White-Hancock, L. (2012) Innovation: Transgressive Learning in Working with Knowledge,
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Land, R. (2011) Crossing Tribal Boundaries: interdisciplinarity as a threshold concept,
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Journal of Allied Health, Volume 39, Supplement 1, Fall 2010 , pp. 251-252
Land, R. (2010) Threshold Concepts and Issues of Interdisciplinarity,
Featured Lecture given at the Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Video of the lecture: http://tv.unsw.edu.au/video/professor-ray-land-and-professor-erik-meyer (last accessed 19 October 2010)
Rifkin, W., Leach, J. and Longnecker, N. (2010) The Interdisciplinary ‘Ice Flow’: Help to identify threshold concepts for an arts-science hybrid Round Table,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
McCabe, B. (2010) Identifying threshold concepts specific to science learning in nursing and the development of teaching approaches to facilitate their crossing.,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Galligan, L. (2010) Examining personal and contextual threshold concepts in academic numeracy,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
O’Donovan, B. (2010) Troublesome courses: intellectual development in multidisciplinary programmes,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Quinnell, R., Thompson, R., Micolich, A. and LeBard, R. (2010) Numeracy as an obstacle to learning for students entering the discipline domains of science and medicine,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Hill, S. (2010) Learning to talk: A threshold concept?,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Carmichael, P., Burchmore, H., Tracy, F. and Johnstone, K. (2007) Threshold Concepts: An Emerging Interdisciplinary Research Agenda in Higher Education,
In: GlobalPerspectives on Higher Education, Volume 4, University Collaboration for Innovation, Lessons from the Cambridge-MIT Institute, Good, D., Greenwald, S., Cox, R. and Goldman, M. (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam and Taipei, pp 155-171.
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Decker, S. (2006) Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development: the redesign of an Economics module,
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Japanese Studies
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Just-In-Time Teaching
Whalley, B. (2012) Integrating Teaching using Troublesome Knowledge Items, “Sticking Points” and Just-in-Time Teaching,
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Bowers, B. (2012) Teaching Students to Think the Unthinkable,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 103 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Kiilo, T. and Kutsar, D. (2012) Exploring constructivist social learning practices in aiding Russian-speaking teachers to learn Estonian: an action research approach,
Educational Action Research, 20 (4), 587-604.
Koban, A. (2012) Identifying Threshold Concepts in Learning Turkish by Undergraduate Students at Hacettepe University, Turkey,
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McKeon, J. (2012) Threshold Concepts in the Professional Development of Second Language Teaching: teaching grammar communicatively,
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Moroney, D. (2012) Threshold Concepts in a TEE (Teaching English in English) Context,
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Murray, S. (2012) A Shakespeare Threshold: Engaging Students in Understanding Prosody,
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Orsini-Jones, P. (2012) Towards a Role-Reversal Model of Threshold Concept Pedagogy
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Kelly, F. and Russell, M. and Wallace, L. (2012) Trouble in mind: supporting the transition to graduate research in English,
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education; 11 (4), 418-433.
Orsini-Jones, M. (2011) Towards a role-reversal model of action-research-supported threshold concept pedagogy in languages and linguistics,
PhD Thesis, Coventry University
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in: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Baillie, C., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 281-299, [book details].
Orsini-Jones, M. (2010) Becoming an undergraduate researcher in English Studies’: the troublesome epistemological and ontological journey of second year students on module Dissertation Methods and Approaches at Coventry University (UK),
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Orsini-Jones, M., Cribb, M., Jones, D., Graham, R., Lund, R. and Lee, F., (2010) Student-driven and threshold-concept-informed curricular change,
Proceedings of iPED 2010, 5th International Inquiring Pedagogies Conference, “Conceptualising Impact: Exploring the effectiveness of practice through pedagogic research.” 15 - 16 September 2010, Coventry University, UK, pp 77 - 83. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/b719e069-ed88-d701-1348-bd4a3450f2d2/1/iPED2010Proc%282%29.pdf.
Awarded the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section (IS) Ilene F. Rockman Publication of the Year Award. See Best Paper Awards for details.
Orsini-Jones, M., Cribb, M., Lund, R., Jones, D. and Graham, R. (2010) Student-driven and threshold-concept-informed curricular change in linguistics: reporting on an undergraduate student’s research project on troublesome knowledge,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Hill, S. (2010) Learning to talk: A threshold concept?,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Kelly, F., Wallace, L. and Russell, M. (2010) A liminal threshold or “just a stepping stone on the way to doing a masters”? Encounters with troublesome knowledge at Honours level in English,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Turraoin, S. (2010) Improving visual literacy in design education - Can a grounding in social semiotics and modalities benefit students with underdeveloped visual literacy skills in overcoming threshold concepts and wicked problems in design education?,
MA thesis in Higher Education, 2010, Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Learning and Teaching Centre, Dublin. http://www.sibealturraoin.ie/Writing/maeducation/MA_Thesis.pdf (last accessed: 26 March 2013)
Orsini-Jones, M. (2009) Shared spaces and ‘secret gardens’: the troublesome journey from undergraduate students to undergraduate scholars via PebblePad,
In: J. O’Donoghue (ed.) Technology Supported Environment for Personalised Learning: Methods and Case Studies Hershey, PA: IGI Global, (pp. TBC).
Hedberg, M. and Ljungqvist, M. (2009) Use of screencasts as support for the understanding of threshold concepts within higher education,
(Användning av screencasts som stöd för förståelse av tröskelbegrepp inom högre utbildning)
Proceedings för Utvecklingskonferens 09, Lunds Universitet, 24 September 2009, pp 96-97
On-line: http://www.lu.se/upload/utvecklingskonferensen/Proceedings_utvecklingskonferens09.pdf last accessed 1 August 2010.
[Addresses screencasting and the identification of threshold concepts in a web-based beginners’ course in Chinese]
Orsini-Jones, M. (2008) Troublesome Language Knowledge: Identifying Threshold Concepts in Grammar Learning,
In: Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Smith, J., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp 213-226, [book details].
Day, H. (2007) Helicopters, Jigsaws, and Plaits: Revealing the Hidden Language and Literature Curriculum,
Pedagogy, 7 (3), 534-543.
Wisker, G (2007) Crossing Liminal Spaces: Teaching the Postcolonial Gothic,
Pedagogy, 7 (3) 401-425.
Laws
The web page Threshold Concepts & Variation Theory, drawing upon the outcomes of a major ALTC project, describes extensive studies of and is excellent introduction to Threshold Concepts and Variation Theory in the teaching of Laws.
Gray, M. and Blake, A. (2013) Threshold concepts in property education: a case study.,
19th Annual Pacific-Rim Real Estate Society Conference, 13-16 January 2013, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (In
Press): http://eprints.qut.edu.au/56510/ (last accessed 22 January 2013)
Åkerlind, G., McKenzie, J. and Wilson, A. (2012) A New Model for Teaching and Learning of Threshold Concepts
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 47 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
Morris, A. (2012) Crossing Subject Specific Threshold Concepts via Short Story Writing: Law Students Demonstrate an Increased Understanding of Human Rights,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 114-115 [last accessed 11 July 2012].
Webster, E. and McDiarmid, C. (2012) Contingency in Practice: Applying a Threshold Concept in Law,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 53 [last accessed 11 July 2012].
Clarke, C., Wijeyewardene, I., Landrigan, B., Mackay, I., Fraser, H. and Werren, K. (2011) Underpinning success in the real world of corporations law,
The Law Teacher, 45 (2), 214-230.
Wimshurst, K. (2011) Applying threshold concepts theory to an unsettled field: an exploratory study in criminal justice education,
Studies in Higher Education, 36 (3), 301-314.
James, N. (2010) ‘Skulls full of mush’: Reflections upon ‘thinking like a lawyer’ as a threshold concept in legal education,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
McKenzie, J., Åkerlind, G., Lupton, M. and Trigwell, K. (2010) Spaces of variation in understanding uncertainty and legal reasoning: extending understandings of transformation, irreversibility and liminality in coming to understand threshold concepts,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Ricketts, A. (2010) Threshold Concepts: ‘Loaded’ Knowledge or Critical Education?,
in: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Baillie, C., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 45-60, [book details].
Allen, V. (2007) A Critical Reflection on the Methodology of Teaching Law to Non-law Students,
Web Journal of Current Legal Issues [2007: 4] Paper: http://webjcli.ncl.ac.uk/2007/issue4/allen4.html last accessed 27 May 2010
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas, (UNLV), Faculty Publications (Libraries), 3-22-2013, pp 215-235: http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/lib_articles/421/ (last accessed: 24 April 2013)
Hofer, A. R., Townsend, L. and Brunetti, K. (2012) Troublesome concepts and information literacy: investigating threshold concepts for IL instruction,
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Blackmore, M. and Freeland, P. (2012) Serious Play: Threshold Concepts, Information Engagement and Game Design,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 87-88 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Brunetti, K., Hofer, A. R. and Townsend, L. (2012) Interdisciplinarity and Information Literacy Instruction: A Threshold Concepts Approach,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 40-41 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Tucker, V., Bruce, C., Edwards, S. and Weedman, J. (2012) Threshold Concepts in Search Expertise,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 127-128 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Townsend, L., Brunetti, K. and Hofer, A.R. (2011) Threshold Concepts and Information Literacy,
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Awarded the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section (IS) Ilene F. Rockman Publication of the Year Award. See Best Paper Awards for details.
Blackmore, M. (2010) Student engagement with information: Applying a threshold concept approach to information literacy development,
The full paper of the presentation made at the Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010: http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/45632.
Townsend, L., Hofer, A.R. and Brunetti, K. (2010) Expert opinions: Investigating threshold concepts for information literacy instruction,
Library Research Seminar V, Integrating Practice and Research, 6-9 October 2010.
Abstract: http://www.lrsv.umd.edu/abstracts/Townsend_et_al.pdf (last accessed 17 September 2010]
Brunetti, K., Hofer, A. R. and Townsend, L. (2009) Through the Looking Glass: Teaching Information Literacy with Threshold Concepts,
WILU (Workshop for Instruction in Library Use) Annual Conference 2009: "Reflections", Concordia University, Montreal, May 25-27, 2009.
Presentation: http://voicethread.com/#q.b527453.i0.k0 last accessed 21 July 2009
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Yorke-Barber, P., Atkinson, L., Possin, G. & Woodall, L, (2008) Light bulb moments: identifying information research threshold concepts for fourth year engineering students,
Proceedings ofAaeE 2008: To Industry and Beyond.: Nineteenth Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Mann, L., Thompson, A and Howard, P. (eds), Yeppoon, Central Queensland, 7th - 10th December 2008, 1-6.
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Cronin, J.G.R. (2011) E-learning and the lifelong learner: Challenging common assumptions,
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Liminality
Click here for a list of references to papers related to Threshold Concepts and Liminality.
Frith, V. and Lloyd, P. (2013) Quantitative Literacy and Epistemological Access at University: Reflections on Using the Threshold Concept Framework for Research,
Mathematics Education and Society 7th International Conference, 2-7 April 2013, Cape Town, South Africa: http://www.mes7.uct.ac.za/Frith%20_%20Lloyd_Paper.pdf (last accessed: 27 March 2013)
Pettersson, K., Stadler, K. and Tambour, T. (2013) Development of students’ understanding of the threshold concept of function,
Eighth Congress of European Research in Mathematics Education (CERME 8), Manavgat-Side, Antalya, Turkey, 6-10 February 2013 : http://cerme8.metu.edu.tr/wgpapers/WG14/WG14_Pettersson.pdf [last accessed 14 January 2013]
Breen, S. and O'Shea, A. (2012) Designing tasks to aid understanding of functions
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 18-19 [last accessed 29 June 2012].
Easdown, D. and Wood, L. (2012) Novel Threshold Concepts in the Mathematical Sciences
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 96 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
Northcote, M. (2012) I Hate Maths and Maths Hate Me! Analysing the Development of Threshold Concepts and Attitudes in Preservice Mathematics Teacher Education
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 51 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
Pettersson, K. (2012) The Threshold Concept of a Function - A Case Study of a Student’s Development of Her Understanding,
MADIF-8: The Eighth Swedish Mathematics Education Research Seminar, Umeå, Sweden, January 24-25, 2012 http://www.mai.liu.se/SMDF/madif8/Pettersson.pdf
Pettersson, K. and Scheja, M. (2012) Prospective Mathematics Teachers' Development of Understanding of the Threshold Concept of a Function
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 123-124 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
Pol, E. (2012) Innovation and economic education: an integration,
Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research, in press:
University of Wollongong Research Online: http://ro.uow.edu.au/commpapers/2910 (last accessed 7 January 2013)
Quinnell, R., LeBard, R. and Thompson, R. (2012) Academic Numeracy: Challenging Thinking Dispositions to Enable Students to Enter and Cross the Liminal Space
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 67-68 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
Long, C., Wendt, H. and Dunne, T.(2011) Applying Rasch measurement in mathematics education research: steps towards a triangulated investigation into proficiency in the multiplicative conceptual field,
Educational Research and Evaluation: An International Journal on Theory and Practice, 17 (5), 387-407.
New-cleckit dominie blog (2011) On the threshold of what?, http://newcleckitdominie.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/on-the-threshold-of-what/ (last accessed 12 February 2012)
This bibliography does not normally list anonymous blogs but an exception has been made for this discussion of threshold concepts and mathematics.
Scheja, M. and Pettersson K. (2011) Exploring Students’ Experiences of Understanding the Threshold Concept of Function,
Earli 2011: Education for a Global Networked Society, Earli 14th Biennial Conference, Exeter, UK, 30 August - 3 September 2011.
Worsley, S.R. (2011) The Big Ideas in Two Large First Level Courses Of Undergraduate Mathematics,
Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA), Mathematics: Traditions and [New] Practices, Proceedings AAMT23/MERGA34, Alice Springs, 2011, pp 839-845. http://www.merga.net.au/documents/RP_WORSLEY_MERGA34-AAMT.pdf (last accessed 29 October 2011)
Galligan, L. (2010) Examining personal and contextual threshold concepts in academic numeracy,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Jooganah, K. (2010) Student Transition to Advanced Mathematical Thinking: A focus on ‘Proof’ as a Threshold Concept,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Masouros, S.D. and Alpay, E. (2010) Mathematics and online learning experiences: A gateway site for engineering students,
European Journal of Engineering Education, 2010, 35 (1), 59-78.
See also: Maths and online learning experiences: a gateway site for engineering students, http://www.mash.dept.shef.ac.uk/ForStaff/maths_gateway.pdf.
Quinnell, R. and Thompson, R. (2010) Conceptual Intersections: Re-viewing academic numeracy in the tertiary education sector as a threshold concept,
in: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Baillie, C., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 147-164, [book details].
Quinnell, R., Thompson, R., Micolich, A. and LeBard, R. (2010) Numeracy as an obstacle to learning for students entering the discipline domains of science and medicine,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Shanahan, M., Bredon, G., Meyer, J.H.F. and Wilson, J. (2010) Introductory university economics and prerequisite conceptual change: an exploratory analysis of mathematical thresholds,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Scheja, M.and Pettersson, K. (2010) Transformation and contextualisation: conceptualising students’ conceptual understandings of threshold concepts in calculus,
Higher Education, 59 (2), 221-241.
Thornton, S., Galluzzo, G., Quinane, M. and Taylor, D. (2010) One on One Numeracy Intervention: A Pilot Project in Low SES Communities,
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA33), John Curtin College of the Arts, Fremantle, 3-7 July 2010, Editors: Len Sparrow, Barry Kissane, Chris Hurst, pp 555-562: http://www.merga.net.au/documents/MERGA33_ThorntonEtAl.pdf last accessed 16 September 2011.
Wandel, A. P. (2010) Linkages between Courses: A Holistic Approach to Programmes,
Proceedings of the 21st Annual Austalasian Association for Engineering Education (AaeE) Conference: Past, Present, Future - the ‘keys’ to engineering education research and practice, 5-8 December 2010, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/9198/2/Wandel_AAEE_2010_PV.pdf
Worsley, S. (2010) Is learning mathematics about learning concepts?,
54th Annual Conference of the Australian Mathematical Society Conference, 27th - 30th September 2010, School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Australia, Conference Booklet, p 111.
[http://www.maths.uq.edu.au/~uqowarna/Conference_Booklet.pdf last accessed 1 April 2010]
Pettersson, K. (2008) Algorithmic, intuitive and formal aspects of mathematics in dynamic interplay: A study of students’ use of their conceptions in calculus
(Algoritmiska, intuitiva och formella aspekter av matematiken i dynamiskt samspel: En studie av hur studenter nyttjar sina begreppsuppfattningar inom matematisk analys)
Chalmers Tekniska Högskola och Göteborgs Universitet PhD thesis: http://www.math.chalmers.se/Math/Research/Preprints/Doctoral/2008/1.pdf (last accessed 29 September 2010)
Easdown, D. (2007) The role of proof in mathematics teaching and The Plateau Principle,
UniServe Science, Proceedings of the Assessment in Science Teaching and Learning Symposium, University of Sydney, September 28-29, 2007, pp 28-33.
[http://science.uniserve.edu.au/pubs/procs/2007/09.pdf last accessed 25 June 2008]
Worsley, S. Bulmer, M. and O’Brien, M (2007) Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge in a second level mathematics course,
UniServe Science, Proceedings of the Assessment in Science Teaching and Learning Symposium, University of Sydney, September 28-29, 2007, pp 139-144.
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Cronin, J. (2012) ‘Doing’ history: what may liminal space and transition time expose during the process of mentoring new graduate tutors in the discipline of history?,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 79-80 [last accessed 1 July 2012].
Cove, M., McAdam, J. and McGonigal, J. (2008) Mentoring, Teaching and Professional Transformation,
in: Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Smith, J., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp 197-211, [book details].
Lee, A (2007) How Can a Mentor Support Experiential Learning?,
Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 12 (3), 333-340.
Metalearning, Reflexivity and Critical Reflection
Rouvrais, S. (2013) Développer la pratique réflexive des étudiants par l’autoévaluation: d’une logique de formation diplômante à une logique d’apprentissage responsable et durable, retour sur trois expériences dans une formation d’ingénieur,
“L’évaluation des acquis en formation d’ingénieur: témoignages”. Réseau CEFI-Ecoles, 13rd February 2013, Chimie ParisTech, France http://public.enst-bretagne.fr/~srouvrai/documents/CEFI2013-Rouvrais-4.pdf [last accessed 25 February 2013].
Foote, W. (2013) Threshold Theory and Social Work Education,
Social Work Education, 32 (4), 424-438.
Joyce, P. (2012) Crossing the threshold into reflective practice,
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland International Education Forum; 2012 July 2-6; Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin: 2012. http://epubs.rcsi.ie/ilhmproc/2/ (last accessed: 26 April 2013)
Ó Donnchadha, B. (2012) Moving from Personal Practice to Communities of Reflective Practice: A Model for Professional Development,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 70-71 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Joyce, P. (2012) Crossing the Threshold into Reflective Practice,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 119-120 [last accessed 5 July 2012].
Wuetherick, B. (2012) Expectation Failure and the Pedagogy of Threshold Concepts,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 128 [last accessed 11 July 2012].
Meyer, J.H.F. (2010) Helping our students: learning, metalearning, and threshold concepts,
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Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
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Abstract: http://www.earli2009.org/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=487
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Entwistle, N. (2008) Threshold Concepts and Transformative Ways of Thinking in Research into Higher Education,
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Peer Assisted Learning
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Journal of Philosophy of Education, 41 (2), 263-270
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Physics
The web page Threshold Concepts & Variation Theory, drawing upon the outcomes of a major ALTC project, describes extensive studies of and is excellent introduction to Threshold Concepts and Variation Theory in the teaching of Physics.
Åkerlind, G., McKenzie, J. and Wilson, A. (2012) A New Model for Teaching and Learning of Threshold Concepts
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Mills, R. and Wilson, A. (2012) There's a Right Answer But Only Some Students Can Get It: Threshold Concepts in the Professional Development of Physics Demonstrators
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Hatsidimitris, G. and Wolfe, J. (2010) Threshold Concepts and the transformation of theory to practice: A designer’s perspective.,
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McKenzie, J., Åkerlind, G., Lupton, M. and Trigwell, K. (2010) Spaces of variation in understanding uncertainty and legal reasoning: extending understandings of transformation, irreversibility and liminality in coming to understand threshold concepts,
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Hersey, C. (2012) Integrating Threshold Concepts Pedagogy into a Market-Value Education System to Reduce the “Plagiarism Epidemic”,
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Aidulis, D. and Cogdell, B. (2009) Development of a workshop to enhance scientific writing skills and reduce plagiarism,
Proceedings of the Higher Education Academy Subject Centres for Bioscience, Materials and Physical Sciences Science Learning and Teaching Conference 2009, 16-17 June 2009, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, page 12. http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/ftp/events/sltc09/papers/o4aidulis.pdf last accessed 6 February 2010
Korosteleva, E. A. (2010) Threshold Concept Through Enactive Learnings: How Effective Are They in the Study of European Politics?,
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Bate, E. and Taylor, D.C.M. (2013) Twelve tips on how to survive PBL as a medical student,
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Barrett, S. (2012) Hard Fun as a Threshold Concept in Problem-Based Learning,
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Barrett, T. (2012) Learning about the problem in problem-based learning (PBL) by listening to students’ talk in tutorials: a critical discourse analysis study,
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Savin-Baden, M. (2006) Problem-based Learning: Reason in Madness? ,
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Psychology
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Cowart, M. (2010) Isolating Clinical Threshold Concepts to Aid in the Supervision of Counseling Psychology Students,
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Humphrey, R. and Simpson, B. (2012) Writes of passage: writing up qualitative data as a threshold concept in doctoral research,
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Bender, B., and Devanas, M. (2012) Embracing Threshold Competencies and Concepts as an Educational Model for the Professional Development of PhD Students,
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Guerin, C. and Green, I. (2012) Voice as a threshold concept in doctoral writing
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Humphrey, R. and Simpson, B. (2012) Writes of passage: writing up qualitative data as a threshold concept in doctoral research,
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Kandiko, C.B. and Kinchin, I.M. (2012) What is a doctorate? A concept-mapped analysis of process versus product in the supervision of lab-based PhDs,
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Keefer, J. and Parchoma, G. (2012) The Experience of Interdisciplinarity in Doctoral Research: Threshold Journey,
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Koole, M. (2012) A Social Constructionist Approach to Phenomenographic Analysis of Identity Positioning in Networked Learning,
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Koole, M. (2012) A Social Constructionist Approach to Phenomenographic Analysis of Identity Positioning in Networked Learning,
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Northcote, M. (2012) Selecting criteria to evaluate qualitative research
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Parchoma, G. and Keefer, J.M. (2012) Contested disciplinarity in international doctoral supervision,
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Wisker, G. (2012) Cross-cultural doctoral supervision and conceptual threshold crossing
Keynote presentation, NU2012 Conference, Göteborg, Sweden, 17-19 October 2012: http://www.nu2012.se/img/keynote_gina_wisker.pdf last accessed (24 November 2012)
Wisker, G. and Robinson, G. (2013) Doctoral ‘orphans’: nurturing and supporting the success of postgraduates who have lost their supervisors,
Higher Education Research & Development, 32 (2), 300-313.
Wisker, G. (2012) Vision and Voice: Conceptual Threshold Crossing in Writing for Academic Publication Programmes,
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Wright, W.A. and Monette, M-J. (2012) “Is there a Doctor in the House?” Pedagogical Portals and the PhD,
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Wuetherick, B. and Thompson, J. (2012) ‘Enabling’ Graduate Attributes as an Interdisciplinary Threshold,
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Fokkens-Bruinsma, M. and Torenbeek, M. (2011) Threshold concepts and conceptual change in Dutch Ph.D. students,
Earli 2011: Education for a Global Networked Society, Earli 14th Biennial Conference, Exeter, UK, 30 August - 3 September 2011.
Kelly, F. and Russell, M. and Wallace, L. (2012) Trouble in mind: supporting the transition to graduate research in English,
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education; 11 (4), 418-433.
Timmerman, B.C., Feldon, D., Maher, M., Strickland, D. and Gilmore, J. (2013) Performance-based assessment of graduate student research skills: timing, trajectory, and potential thresholds,
Studies in Higher Education, 38 (5), 693-710.
Wisker, G. (2011) Doctoral examining for sustainable research capacity building - examiner threshold crossing,
Earli 2011: Education for a Global Networked Society, Earli 14th Biennial Conference, Exeter, UK, 30 August - 3 September 2011.
Daneshgar, F. (2010) A Threshold Concept Perspective for Enhancing Effectiveness of PhD Supervision in Computing Disciplines,
Annual International Conference on Computer Science Education: Innovation & Technology (CSEIT 2010), Hilton Phuket Arcadia Resort & Spa, Thailand, 6th December 2010.
Kiley, M. and Wisker, G. (2010) Learning To Be a Researcher: The Concepts and Crossings,
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Lilly, J. and Warnes, M. (2010) Exploring the transformative dynamics of threshold concepts in UK PhD students,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Wisker, G. and Morris, C. (2010) ‘Nudging’: exploring effective strategies to enable postgraduate research students to cross conceptual thresholds in their doctoral work.,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Kärner, A. (2009) Supervision and research training within the professional research community: Seeking new challenges of doctoral education in Estonia,
Dissertation Pedagogicae Universitatis Tartuensis 7, Department of Pedagogy, University of Tartu, Tartu University Press.
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Kiley, M. and Wisker, G. (2009) Threshold concepts in research education and evidence of threshold crossing,
Higher Education Research & Development, 28 (4), 431-441.
Kiley, M. (2009) Identifying threshold concepts and proposing strategies to support doctoral candidates,
Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 46 (3), 293-304.
Kiley, M. (2009) Creativity as a Threshold Concept in research education,
Paper presented at the 13th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), 25-29 August 2009. Book of Abstracts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Trafford, V. and Leshem, S. (2009) Doctorateness as a threshold concept,
Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 46 (3), 305-316.
Wisker, G. and Robinson, G. (2009) Encouraging postgraduate students of literature and art to cross conceptual thresholds,
Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 46 (3), 317-330.
Wisker, G., Morris, C., Warnes, M., Lilly, J., Robinson, G., Trafford, V. and Cheng, M. (2009) Doctoral learning journeys: supporting and enhancing doctoral students’ research and related skills development through research evidence-based practices,
Assessment, Learning & Teaching Journal (ALT Journal), Number 5, Spring 2009, pp 19-22.
On-line at: http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/ALT_Journal_No_5.pdf (last accessed 6 June 2011).
Kandiko, C. B., Kinchin, I. M. and Hay, D. B. (2008) Longitudinal studies of cognitive change among Students and their supervisors in the course of research supervision leading to a PhD,
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Concept Mapping: Concept Mapping: Connecting Educators, Cañas, A. J. , Reiska, P., Åhlberg, M. and Novak, J. D. (eds.), Tallinn, Estonia & Helsinki, Finland 2008. http://cmc.ihmc.us/cmc2008papers/cmc2008-p104.pdf (last accessed 11 August 2009)
Trafford, V. (2008) Conceptual Frameworks as a Threshold Concept in Doctorateness,
in: Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Smith, J., (eds), Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp 273-288, [book details].
Wisker, G and Robinson, G. (2007) Improving postgraduate student learning for sustainable social development, research capacity building and personal growth,
The 15th Improving Student Learning Symposium: Improving Student Learning - For What?, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 3-5 September 2007.
Onsman, A. and Paganin, D. (2006) Perturbative Analogies: fostering creativity in postgraduate research students,
AARE (Australian Association for Research in Education) Conference 2006
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School Education, e.g. Primary and Secondary Education
Wilson, R. (2012) The Effects of Genre on Student Learning from Informational Text: Implications for Teacher Educators,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 110 [last accessed 11 July 2012].
Renshaw, S. and Wood, P. (2011) Holistic Understanding in Geography Education (HUGE) - an alternative approach to curriculum development and learning at Key Stage 3,
The Curriculum Journal, 22 (3), 365-379.
Slinger, J. (2011) Threshold Concepts in Secondary Geography Education,
Research report presented at The Geographical Association Annual Conference, University of Surrey, 16th April 2011. http://www.geography.org.uk/download/GA_Conf11Slinger.pdf (last accessed 23 June 2011)
Sheehan, M. (2010) Identification of difficult topics in the teaching and learning of Chemistry in Irish schools and the development of an intervention programme to target some of these difficulties,
University of Limerick PhD Thesis: http://ulir.ul.ie/bitstream/10344/432/3/MSpthesis.pdf (last accessed 11 September 2010)
Slinger, J. (2010) Threshold Concepts in Secondary Geography Education,
International Geography Union - Commission for Geography Education - The British Sub-Committee: 2010 Research Forum: Post Graduate Research in Geography Education, Institute of Education, Universtiy of London, Saturday, 16th October 2010. http://igu-cge-uk.webs.com/Forum%20ppts/Threshold%20Concepts.pdf (last accessed 4 November 2010)
Thornton, S., Galluzzo, G., Quinane, M. and Taylor, D. (2010) One on One Numeracy Intervention: A Pilot Project in Low SES Communities,
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA33), John Curtin College of the Arts, Fremantle, 3-7 July 2010, Editors: Len Sparrow, Barry Kissane, Chris Hurst, pp 555-562: http://www.merga.net.au/documents/MERGA33_ThorntonEtAl.pdf last accessed 16 September 2011.
Science Teaching
Wilson, R. (2012) The Effects of Genre on Student Learning from Informational Text: Implications for Teacher Educators,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 110 [last accessed 11 July 2012].
Onsman, A. and Paganin, D. (2006) Perturbative Analogies: fostering creativity in postgraduate research students,
AARE (Australian Association for Research in Education) Conference 2006
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Bishop, S. (2006) Using analogy in science teaching as a bridge to students’ understanding of complex issues,
in: Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge, edited by Jan H. F. Meyer and Ray Land,
Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, pp 182-194 [book details].
Waern, A. (2013) Game Analysis as a Signature Pedagogy of Game Studies,
The 8th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2013, Chania, Crete, Greece, 14-17 May 2013 http://www.fdg2013.org/program/papers/paper36_waern.pdf (last accessed: 21 May 2013)
Blackmore, M. and Freeland, P. (2012) Serious Play: Threshold Concepts, Information Engagement and Game Design,
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Bocconi, S., Bachvarova, Y., Ruskov, M., Fradinho Oliveira, M. (2012) Dealing with Threshold Concepts in Serious Games for Competence Development,
Serious Games Development and Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012, Volume 7528/2012, 158-169.
Podleschny, N. (2012) Games for change and transformative learning: An ethnographic case study,
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Thesis, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia http://eprints.qut.edu.au/58142/1/Nicole_Podleschny_Thesis.pdf (last accessed: 26 March 2013)
Flanagan, M., Zimmermann, M., Ackermann, G., Hokstad, L.M., Andersen, B. and Fradinho, M. (2010) Transformational Learning and Serious Game Design,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Abstract: http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~mflanaga/FlanaganM_etal.pdf.
Hulpus, I., Fradinho, M., Hayes, C., Hokstad, L., Seager, W. and Flanagan, M. (2010) Rapid Competence Development in Serious Games using Case-Based Reasoning and Threshold Concepts,
The 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2010), Valencia, Spain, 7-10 April 2010.
Walsh, M. (2009) The Application of Threshold Concepts in Economics Using Classroom Games with Business Students,
Fifth International Developments in Economics Education (DEE) Conference, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, UK, 9-10 September 2009
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Horn, J. (2012) Embedding Threshold Concepts in a Student Learning Community,
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Horn, J. (2012) The Process and Lessons Learned in Developing Interdisciplinary Threshold Concepts,
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Kabo, J. and Baillie, C. (2012) Don't Fear the Engineer: Social Science Students Exploring a Liminal Space with Engineering Students
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Kiilo, T. and Kutsar, D. (2012) Exploring constructivist social learning practices in aiding Russian-speaking teachers to learn Estonian: an action research approach,
Educational Action Research, 20 (4), 587-604.
Kutsar, D. and Kärner, A. (2010) Exploration of Societal Transactions in Estonia from the Threshold Concept Perspective,
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Foote, W. (2010) Transforming student’s orientation to learning on placement,
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Diamond, R.V. (2011) Technical Report on Assessment Data Analysis: What Can Grade Distributions Tell Us? Surface Learners and Threshold Concepts in Statistics,
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MacDougall, M. (2010) Threshold concepts in statistics and online discussion as a basis for curriculum innovation in undergraduate medicine,
HEA Maths, Stats & OR Network: MSOR Connections Vol 10 No 3 Autumn Term 2010, pp 21-24 & 41.
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Quinnell, R. and Thompson, R. (2010) Conceptual Intersections: Re-viewing academic numeracy in the tertiary education sector as a threshold concept,
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Thompson, R. and Quinnell, R. (2010) The advantages of a discipline “tour guide” approach to teaching statistics in medicine and biology,
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Thompson, R. (2008) Sexing up stats: dealing with numeracy issues and threshold concepts in an online medical statistics course,
The Association for Health Professional Education Annual Conference, ANZAME 2008, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 10-13 July 2008.
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Bulmer, M., O’Brien, M and Price, S. (2007) Troublesome concepts in statistics: a student perspective on what they are and how to learn them,
UniServe Science, Proceedings of the Assessment in Science Teaching and Learning Symposium, University of Sydney, September 28-29, 2007, pp 9 - 15.
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Dunne, T., Low, T. and Ardington, C. (2003) Exploring Threshold concepts in basic Statistics, using the Internet,
The International Association for Statistical Education, Statistics & the Internet, Berlin, Germany, 2003, (IASE/ISI Satellite, 2003)
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Clouder, L. and Adefila, A.(2012) The Trouble with Responsibility: Exploring the Interaction of Tacit Knowledge and Ritualized Practices in Giving Students Responsibility on Placement,
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Meyer, J.H.F. and Flanagan, M.T. (2010) On epistemes,
Featured Lecture given at the Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
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Perkins, D. (2006) Constructivism and troublesome knowledge,
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Teacher Education
Devitt, A., Kerin, M. and O'Sullivan, H. (2012) Threshold Concepts and Practices in Teacher Education: Professional, Educator and Student Perspectives,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 69 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Gilrane, C. (2012) Shifting Identity in Teacher Development,
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Hokstad, L.M. and Gynnild, V. (2012) Transcending Self-Reference - Disciplinary Integration as Threshold Concepts
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Kiilo, T. and Kutsar, D. (2012) Exploring constructivist social learning practices in aiding Russian-speaking teachers to learn Estonian: an action research approach,
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Moroney, D. (2012) Threshold Concepts in a TEE (Teaching English in English) Context,
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Noonan, S. (2012) Threshold Crossings and Concepts in Teaching: An Exploration,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 99-100 [last accessed 7 July 2012].
Paakkari, L. (2012) Widening Horizons: A Phenomenographic Study of Student Teachers’ Conception of Health Education and Its Teaching and Learning,
Dissertation, Department of Health Sciences,University of Jyväskylä March 2012: http://dissertations.jyu.fi/studsport/9789513946524.pdf (last accessed 1 March 2012)
Wilson, R. (2012) The Effects of Genre on Student Learning from Informational Text: Implications for Teacher Educators,
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Cove, M., McAdam, J. and McGonigal, J. (2008) Mentoring, Teaching and Professional Transformation,
in: Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Smith, J., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp 197-211, [book details].
Audience Response Technology (ART) [Personal Response Systems (PRS), clickers, electronic voting systems (EVS)]
O’Keeffe, M. (2012) Exploration of the Use of Handheld Personal Response Systems with First Year Accountancy Students for Deep Learning and Understanding,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 108-109 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Moss, K. and Crowley, M. (2011) Effective learning in science: The use of personal response systems with a wide range of audiences,
Computers & Education, 56 (1), 36-43.
Lee, C-Y., Pan, P. J. D., Liao, C-J.and Chen, H-Y. and Walters, B. G. (2013) E-character education among digital natives: Focusing on character exemplars,
Computers & Education: Available online to subscribers 16 March 2013, http://dx.doi.org.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/10.1016/j.compedu.2013.02.020.
Evgeniou, E. and Loizou, P. (2012) The Theoretical Base of E-Learning and Its Role in Surgical Education,
Journal of Surgical Education, 69 (5), 65-669.
Khare, A. (2012) Threshold Concepts in ODL: Understanding, Interpreting, and Viewing Performance in IGNOU,
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Lyons, W. (2012) Will an m-Learning Technique Promote Student Understanding of Problematic Knowledge and Key Threshold Concepts?
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O'Donnell, E. (2012) Personalised E-Learning: Facilitating Students' Understanding and Mastery of New Concepts,
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Sebert, C. and Archuleta-Frush, K. (2012) Creating Optimal Distance Education Environments for the Emergence of Threshold Concepts,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 34-35 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
Sweeney, J., Hegarty, J., Condon, C., O'Shea, M., Flynn, A., Marsh, L., Phelan, A., Cummins, A., Creedon, S. and O'Mahony, K. (2012) Assessment of Learning in the Clinical Practice Environment: Using an On-Line Tool to Help Students Understand the Abstract Nature of Steinaker and Bell's (1979) Experiential Taxonomy,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 86-87 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
Cronin, J.G.R. (2011) E-learning and the lifelong learner: Challenging common assumptions,
in the Report of the European Commission Education and Culture DG Lifelong Learning Project ‘ACE - Ageing Challenges Education’ pp 9-19: http://www.ikmgroup.com/ACE_descriptions%20of%20good%20practice_DEF.pdf [last accessed 20 November 2011]
Prusty, G. and Russell, C. (2011) Engaging students in learning threshold concepts in engineering mechanics: adaptive eLearning tutorial,
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Engineering Education, ICEE2011 : Engineering Sustainability for a Global Economy, 21-26 August 2011, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK: http://www.ineer.org/events/ICEE2011/papers/icee2011_submission_250.pdf (last accessed: 16 November 2011)
Macdonald, J. and Campbell, A. (2012) Demonstrating online teaching in the disciplines. A systematic approach to activity design for online synchronous tuition,
British Journal of Educational Technology, 43 (6), 883-891.
Macdonald, J. and Poniatowska, B. (2011) Designing the professional development of staff for teaching online: an OU (UK) case study,
Distance Education, 32 (1), 119-134.
Macdonald, J. and and Black, A. (2010) Disciplinary Knowledge Practices in Distance Education: Testing a new methodology for teaching enhancement in History,
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 9 (1) 69-86.
Macdonald, J. and and Black, A. (2009) Threshold concepts and troublsome knowledge in distance education: assessing a new model for enhancing facilitation and course design,
In C. Rust (Ed.), Improving student learning 16: Improving student learning through the curriculum. OCSLD, Oxford, pp. 275-286.
e-Portfolios
Getman-Eraso, J., Wach, H. and Penny Light, T. (2012) Documenting Learning while Crossing the Threshold: Exploring e-Portfolios and Threshold Concepts in Multiple Contexts,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 57-58 [last accessed 3 July 2012].
Studdert, C., Ryan, S., Hills, C. and Nguyen, K. (2012) Creating an Occupational Therapy Student-Centred Website and e-Portfolio using a Threshold Level Framework to Evidence Competence and Professional Development,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 125-126 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
Peacock, S., Murray, S., Scott, A. and Kelly, J. (2011) The Transformative Role of ePortfolios: Feedback in Healthcare Learning,
International Journal of ePortfolio, 1 (1), 33-48: http://www.theijep.com/pdf/IJEP28.pdf last accessed 16 August 2011.
Joyes, G. (2010) Effective practice with e-Portrfolios - Where are we now?,
RSC/JISC advance Conference: ePortfolio Scotland 2010, 10 Sep 2010, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK. http://www.slideshare.net/rscnescotland/gordon-joyesrsc-sept10 last accessed 27 May 2010.
Hatsidimitris, G. and Wolfe, J. (2010) Threshold Concepts and the transformation of theory to practice: A designer’s perspective.,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Hatsidimitris, G. (2007) Using cognitive load theory as a framework for designing a set of integrated multimedia modules to assist in the teaching of a threshold concept,
UniServe Science, Proceedings of the Assessment in Science Teaching and Learning Symposium, University of Sydney, September 28-29, 2007, pp 172-176.
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Networked Learning
Koole, M. L. (2013) Identity Positioning of Doctoral Students in Networked Learning Environments,
Doctor of Philosophy thesis, Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK, February, 2013. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/64294/ (last accessed: 7 May 2013)
Koole, M. (2012) A Social Constructionist Approach to Phenomenographic Analysis of Identity Positioning in Networked Learning,
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Networked Learning 2012, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2-4 April 2012, Eds, Hodgson V, Jones C, de Laat M, McConnell D, Ryberg T & Sloep P, pp 488-495: http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/abstracts/pdf/koole.pdf [last accessed 13 August 2012].
Ehiyazaryan-White, E. (2012) Developing open academic practices in research methods teaching within a Higher Education in Further Education context,
Journal of Interactive Educational (JIME), 2012/13: http://jime.open.ac.uk/2012/13 [last accessed 14 December 2012].
King, H. (2012) Bringing the Discipline into Generic Professional Development Programmes: Open Materials for Exploring Disciplinary Ways of Thinking and Practising,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 120 [last accessed 1 July 2012].
Podcasting and Screencasting
Savin-Baden, M. (2010) The sound of feedback in higher education
Learning, Media and Technology, 35 (1), 53 - 64.
Hedberg, M. and Ljungqvist, M. (2009) Use of screencasts as support for the understanding of threshold concepts within higher education,
(Användning av screencasts som stöd för förståelse av tröskelbegrepp inom högre utbildning)
Proceedings för Utvecklingskonferens 09, Lunds Universitet, 24 September 2009, pp 96-97
On-line: http://www.lu.se/upload/utvecklingskonferensen/Proceedings_utvecklingskonferens09.pdf last accessed 1 August 2010.
[Addresses screencasting and the identification of threshold concepts in a web-based beginners’ course in Chinese]
Virtual Worlds, e.g. Second Life, Virtual Laboratories and Virtual Conferencing
Stevens, K. (2012) Cybercells as a Concept for the Integration of Virtual and Actual Learning Spaces,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 125 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
Bayne, S. (2010) Academetron, automaton, phantom: uncanny digital pedagogies,
London Review of Education, 8 (1), 5-13.
Flanagan, M., Zimmermann, M., Ackermann, G., Hokstad, L.M., Andersen, B. and Fradinho, M. (2010) Transformational Learning and Serious Game Design,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Abstract: http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~mflanaga/FlanaganM_etal.pdf.
Hulpus, I., Fradinho, M., Hayes, C., Hokstad, L., Seager, W. and Flanagan, M. (2010) Rapid Competence Development in Serious Games using Case-Based Reasoning and Threshold Concepts,
The 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2010), Valencia, Spain, 7-10 April 2010.
Savin-Baden, M. (2008) From cognitive capability to social reform? Shifting perceptions of learning in immersive virtual worlds,
ALT-J Research in Learning Technology, 16 (3), 151-161.
Aiken, M. and Berry, M. (2012) Cyberchondria: A Contemporary Transformative Concept,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 129 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Mattisson, J. and Schamp-Bjerede, T. (2012) The boilerplate: a new look at a familiar device. Writing in English for “digital natives” and “digital immigrants”
Kristianstad University School of Education and Environment Article, Högskolepedagogisk debatt 1-2012, pp 31-41. http://hkr.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?searchId=2&pid=diva2:491904 (last accessed 9 November 2012)
Parker, J. (2012) ‘Scaffolding’ v ‘Digitally-Enabled Co-Construction of Troublesome Knowledge’. The Case of ‘Engaging with Theory in Literary Close Reading’.,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 91-92 [last accessed 10 July 2012].
Tracy, F. and Jordan, K. (2012) Students as designers of semantic web applications,
Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 21 (2), 171-188.
Tucker, V., Bruce, C., Edwards, S. and Weedman, J. (2012) Threshold Concepts in Search Expertise,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 127-128 [last accessed 2 July 2012].
Wood, P. (2012) Blogs as liminal space: student teachers at the threshold,
Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 21 (1), 85-99.
Bedek, M. and Albert, D. (2012) Embedding Threshold Concepts into Hierarchical Concept Structures,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 93 [last accessed 1 July 2012].
Olczak, M. (2011) Evaluating the impact of a web-based resource on student learning,
SSRN (Social Science Research Network) April 1, 2011: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1822665 last accessed: 6 May 2011
Northcote, M., Beamish, P., Reynaud, D., Martin, T. and Gosselin, K. (2010) Bumpy moments and joyful breakthroughs: The place of threshold concepts in academic staff development programs about online learning and teaching,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Bedek, M.A. and Albert, D. (2010) Integrating threshold concepts into set-theoretic frameworks,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Newland, B. (2007) Threshold Concepts and Implications for E-learning,
In: ED-MEDIA 2007-World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, June 2007, Vancouver, Canada.
Click here for a list of references to papers related to Threshold Concepts and Transformation.
Troublesome Knowledge
Click here for a list of references to papers related to Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge.
Perkins, D. (2006) Constructivism and troublesome knowledge,
in: Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge, edited by Jan H. F. Meyer and Ray Land,
Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, pp 33-47 [book details].
Perkins, D. (1999), The many faces of constructivism,
Educational Leadership, 57 (3), 6-11.
Turkish
Koban, A. (2012) Identifying Threshold Concepts in Learning Turkish by Undergraduate Students at Hacettepe University, Turkey,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 105-106 [last accessed 6 July 2012].
Uncertainty
Hall, B. (2012) “How Do You Know?” The Threshold Concept, Multi-Disciplinary Approaches and the Age of Uncertainty,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 40 [last accessed 4 July 2012].
Webster, E. and McDiarmid, C. (2012) Contingency in Practice: Applying a Threshold Concept in Law,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 53 [last accessed 11 July 2012].
McKenzie, J., Åkerlind, G., Lupton, M. and Trigwell, K. (2010) Spaces of variation in understanding uncertainty and legal reasoning: extending understandings of transformation, irreversibility and liminality in coming to understand threshold concepts,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Hall, B. (2006) Teaching and learning uncertainty in science: the case of climate change,
Planet No 17, December 2006, pp 48-49.
[http://www.gees.ac.uk/planet/p17/bh.pdf last accessed 18 December 2010]
Knight, Y. (2006) Knowledge, evidence, complexity and uncertainty: a summary,
Planet No 17, December 2006, pp 24-25.
[http://www.gees.ac.uk/planet/p17/yk.pdf last accessed 18 December 2010]
Variation Theory and the Threshold Concept
The web page Threshold Concepts & Variation Theory, drawing upon the outcomes of a major ALTC project, describes extensive studies of and is excellent introduction to Threshold Concepts and Variation Theory.
Åkerlind, G., McKenzie, J. and Wilson, A. (2012) A New Model for Teaching and Learning of Threshold Concepts
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 47 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
Baillie, C., Bowden, J.A. and Meyer, J.H.F. (2013) Threshold capabilities: threshold concepts and knowledge capability linked through variation theory,
Higher Education, 65 (2), 227-246.
Åkerlind, G. S., McKenzie, J. and Lupton, M. (2011) Using phenomenography and variation theory to improve understandings of threshold concepts,
Earli 2011: Education for a Global Networked Society, Earli 14th Biennial Conference, Exeter, UK, 30 August - 3 September 2011.
Åkerlind, G., McKenzie, J. and Wilson, A., (2010) Adapting educational theory to discipline pedagogy: integrating research, teaching and scholarship.,
Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Research Conference 2010, ‘Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?’; Exploring Meaning, Identities and Transformation in Higher Education, 14 - 16 December 2010, Celtic Manor Resort, South Wales, UK.
[http://www.srhe.ac.uk/conference2010/abstracts/0209.pdf last accessed 17 March 2011]
McKenzie, J., Åkerlind, G., Lupton, M. and Trigwell, K. (2010) Spaces of variation in understanding uncertainty and legal reasoning: extending understandings of transformation, irreversibility and liminality in coming to understand threshold concepts,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Meyer, J.H.F. (2010) Helping our students: learning, metalearning, and threshold concepts,
in Taking stock: research on teaching and learning in higher education. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp. 191-213. Queen’s policy studies series (66).
[http://dro.dur.ac.uk/6849/1/6849.pdf last accessed 14 June 2011]
Park, E-J. and Light, G. (2010) Identifying a Potential Threshold Concept in Nanoscience and Technology: Engaging Theory in the Service of Practice,
in: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Baillie, C., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 259-280, [book details].
Pang, M.F. and Meyer, J.H.F. (2010) Modes of Variation in Pupil’s Apprehension of a Threshold Concept in Economics,
in: Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Baillie, C., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 365-382, [book details].
Buckley, C. and Maddern, J. (2009): Models of learning and teaching,
The tHE Programme, Bangor University and Aberystwyth University
Presentation: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/adu/the_scheme/documents/INDCBJM.ppt last accessed 28 October 2009
This powerpoint presentation also contains very informative notes.
Meyer, J.H.F., Land, R. and Davies, P. (2008) Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge (4): Issues of variation and variability,
in: Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Smith, J., (eds), Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp 59-74, [book details].
Virtual Worlds, Virtual Laboratories and Virtual Conferencing
Atherton, J., Hadfield, P. and Wolstencroft, P. (2012) Troublesome Thresholds and Limiting Liminality: Issues in Teaching in Vocational Education,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 69-70 [last accessed 30 June 2012].
Cooper, T. (2012) Threshold Concepts as a heuristic device in an ill-structured discipline,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 44-45 [last accessed 1 July 2012].
Fuzzard, R. and Kiley, M. (2012) What Concepts Underpin Skills Training in Community Services in Vocational Education and Training,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 101-102 [last accessed 3 July 2012].
Moroney, D. (2012) Threshold Concepts in a TEE (Teaching English in English) Context,
Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Book of Conference Abstracts: page 123 [last accessed 11 July 2012].
Hadfield, P. and Atherton, J. (2008) Beyond Compliance,
A development of “Accountability, assessment and anxiety; and curricular structures to help students engage with troublesome knowledge”,
a paper presented at 16th Improving Student Learning; through the curriculum conference, University of Durham UK, 1-3 September 2008 http://www.bedspce.org.uk/papers/Beyond%20Compliance_50.pdf last accessed 17 July 2010.
Wilkinson, S. (2010) Can ‘Threshold Concepts’ help to define the challenges confronting students from non-traditional background aspiring to enter Higher Education?,
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts: The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010
Gennep, A. van (1960), The Rites of Passage,
London, Routledge and Keagan Paul.
Turner, V. (1969), The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure,
London, Routledge and Keagan Paul or New York, Aldine de Gruter, ISBN: 0-202-01190-9.
Theses and Dissertations
This section lists theses and dissertations that either feature the threshold concept framework as a central theme or contain serious discussion of the threshold concept framework.
García-Rosell, J-C. (2013) A multi-stakeholder perspective on sustainable marketing: promoting sustainability through action and research,
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Lapland Faculty of Social Sciences, Acta Electronica Universitatis Lapponiensis 111 http://doria17-kk.lib.helsinki.fi/handle/10024/88826 (last accessed: 8 April 2013)
Keefer, J. (2013) Navigating Liminality: The Experience of Troublesome Periods and Distance During Doctoral Study,
Doctor of Philosophy thesis, University of Lancaster, UK, March 2013.
Koole, M. L. (2013) Identity Positioning of Doctoral Students in Networked Learning Environments,
Doctor of Philosophy thesis, Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK, February, 2013. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/64294/ (last accessed: 7 May 2013)
Healy, R. L. (2012) Ethical thinking in a disciplinary context: The ethical development of undergraduates and expectations of tutors in the arts, social and pure sciences,
Master’s thesis, University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom: http://hdl.handle.net/10034/267472 (last accessed: 26 March 2013)
Hill, S. (2012) Troublesome or Threshold? The experience of difficult concepts in prosthetics,
PhD thesis, Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK, June 2012 http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/61627/1/Hill.pdf (last accessed: 23 March 2013)
Podleschny, N. (2012) Games for change and transformative learning: An ethnographic case study,
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Thesis, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia http://eprints.qut.edu.au/58142/1/Nicole_Podleschny_Thesis.pdf (last accessed: 26 March 2013)
Daniels, M. (2011) Developing and Assessing Professional Competencies: Experiences from an Open-Ended Group Project Learning Environment,
Acta Universitatis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 738. 109pp. Uppsala. ISSN 1651-6214
ISBN 978-91-554-8024-0
[http://www.it.uu.se/katalog/matsd/Mats-Thesis.pdf last accessed 17 May 2011]
Orsini-Jones, M. (2011) Towards a role-reversal model of action-research-supported threshold concept pedagogy in languages and linguistics,
PhD Thesis, Coventry University
Smith, J. (2011) Resonance, Dissonance, Rejection: Experiences of Probationary Lecturers in UK Higher Education,
PhD Thesis, School of Education, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, July 2011: http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/35822/
Timmermans, J.A. (2011) Epistemic Beliefs, Threshold Concepts, and Educational Development,
PhD Thesis in Educational Psychology, McGill University.
Boustedt, J. (2010) On the Road to a Software Profession. Students’ Experiences of Concepts and Thresholds,
Acta Universitatis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 734. 61pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-7789-9.
[http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:309647/FULLTEXT01 last accessed 31 May 2010]
Sheehan, M. (2010) Identification of difficult topics in the teaching and learning of Chemistry in Irish schools and the development of an intervention programme to target some of these difficulties,
University of Limerick PhD Thesis: http://ulir.ul.ie/bitstream/10344/432/3/MSpthesis.pdf (last accessed 11 September 2010)
Turraoin, S. (2010) Improving visual literacy in design education - Can a grounding in social semiotics and modalities benefit students with underdeveloped visual literacy skills in overcoming threshold concepts and wicked problems in design education?,
MA thesis in Higher Education, 2010, Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Learning and Teaching Centre, Dublin. http://www.sibealturraoin.ie/Writing/maeducation/MA_Thesis.pdf (last accessed: 26 March 2013)
Drummond, S. A. (2009) Investigating the Impact of Entry Qualifications on Student Performance in Computing Programmes at Undergraduate Level,
University of Durham PhD Thesis: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/154/1/Sarah_Drummond.pdf (last accessed 11 September 2010)
Eckerdal, A. (2009) Novice Programming Students’ Learning of Concepts and Practise.,
Acta Universitatis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 600. 194pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-7406-5.
[http://user.it.uu.se/~annae/FullAvh-Spikenheten.pdf last accessed 3 October 2010]
Kärner, A. (2009) Supervision and research training within the professional research community: Seeking new challenges of doctoral education in Estonia,
Dissertation Pedagogicae Universitatis Tartuensis 7, Department of Pedagogy, University of Tartu, Tartu University Press.
[http://dspace.utlib.ee/dspace/bitstream/10062/10504/1/karneranita.pdf last accessed 5 September 2009]
Pettersson, K. (2008) Algorithmic, intuitive and formal aspects of mathematics in dynamic interplay: A study of students’ use of their conceptions in calculus
(Algoritmiska, intuitiva och formella aspekter av matematiken i dynamiskt samspel: En studie av hur studenter nyttjar sina begreppsuppfattningar inom matematisk analys)
Chalmers Tekniska Högskola och Göteborgs Universitet PhD thesis: http://www.math.chalmers.se/Math/Research/Preprints/Doctoral/2008/1.pdf (last accessed 29 September 2010)
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González Sampayo, M. [now Holmberg, M.] (2006) Engineering Problem Solving: The case of the Laplace transform as a difficulty in learning electric circuits and as a tool to solve real world problems,
No. 1038, Linköping Studies in Science and Technology Dissertation, Linköping: Linköping University. http://www.didaktik.itn.liu.se/thesis/gonzalez.html (last accessed 11 September 2010)
Threshold Concept Web Pages
The following web pages contain extensive documentation, explanation, discussion and relevant links on the Threshold Concept.
Embedding Threshold Concepts
A major site from the University of Staffordshire, one of the partners of the original study on the Threshold Concept, and though directed towards the teaching of Economics, nonetheless a valuable resources site in general.
url: http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/business/iepr/etc/ last accessed 24 June 2008
University of Bedfordshire / James Atherton
The following links are to the Threshold Concept resources pages of the University of Bedfordshire’s Professional Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)
ALTC Project Web Page: Threshold Concepts in Biology
Web page: http://sydney.edu.au/science/biology/learning/threshold (last accessed 24 January 2011).
This excellent site is devoted to the teaching of biology but also contains much on threshold concepts that is relevant in a wider context.
ALTC Project Web Page: Threshold Concepts and Variation Theory
Web page: http://thresholdvariation.edu.au/ (last accessed 14 January 2013).
This excellent site is devoted to the teaching of laws and physics in the context of variation theory but also contains much on threshold concepts that is relevant in a wider context.
Burchmore, H., Irvine, N. and Carmichael, P. (2008) Threshold Concepts: A Review of Related Literature,
University of Cambridge, Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies Report: http://www.caret.cam.ac.uk/tel/downloads/tel_literature_review.pdf [last accessed 14 June 2011]
An extensive survey and discussion of the threshold concept literature up to 2007.
Call for papers featuring the Threshold Concept
The Journal of Management Education has put out a call for papers for a Special Issue, THRESHOLD CONCEPTS IN MANAGEMENT EDUCATION:
RESEARCH, TEACHING AND LEARNING.
Details may be found on http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/55135_JME_Call_Threshold_Concepts.pdf.
Submission deadline: 14 February 2014 but earlier submissions would be welcome from 1 October 2013 onwards.
Future Conferences, Symposia and Workshops on or strongly featuring the Threshold Concept
Fifth Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference:
The Fifth Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference will be held at Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom, on Thursday-Friday, 10-11 July, 2014.
The Fourth International Academic Identity Conference will also be held at Durham University on the Monday-Tuesday of the same week, 7-8 July 2014. There will be a day of linking activities on the Wednesday, 9 July 2014.
Recent Conferences, Symposia and Workshops on or strongly featuring the Threshold Concept
Fourth Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference: From personal practice to communities of practice
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 27-29 June 2012.
The conference was organised by the National Academy for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NAIRTL).
[Conference Web Site last accessed 27 June 2012].
Third Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium; Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts:
The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1-2 July 2010.
Living and learning, learning and teaching: Mental health in higher education:
Lancaster University, 30-31 March 2010
[Conference Web Site last accessed 26 October 2009]
Developing threshold concepts in legal education,
A Higher Education Academy UK Centre for Legal Education Workshop, LILAC 10, Warwick, 30 January 2010
Contributors: Helen Carr, Caroline Hunter, Ray Land, Julian Webb, Elaine Webster
[Web Site last accessed 17 March 2011]
Threshold Concepts in Biology, Australian Teaching and Learning Council (ALTC) funded Workshop,
Sydney, 17 April 2009
[Web Site last accessed 22 July 2009]
NAIRTL 2nd Annual Conference - Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Challenging Assumptions, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland, 13th - 14th November 2008
[Conference Web Site last accessed 25 October 2008]
Second Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium: from theory to practice:
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 18th - 20th June 2008
Assessment in Science Teaching and Learning Symposium, University of Sydney, Australia, 28-29 September 2007
[Proceedings last accessed 25 June 2008]
First Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium: Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines Symposium, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, 30 August-1 September 2006
Best Paper Awards awarded to Authors of papers featuring Threshold Concepts
Teaching Awards awarded to Teachers of courses embedding Threshold Concepts
Sangeeta Khorana, Lecturer in the School of Management and Business at Aberystwyth University, has been awarded the Aberystwyth University Teaching Excellence Award (academic year 2009-2010) for her work in utilising several e-learning technologies to aid teaching - in particular, using the "threshold concepts" approach in conjunction with differentiation as a teaching technique. This approach attempted to deliver an effective learning environment through inquiry-oriented collaborative group activities for postgraduate students http://nexus.aber.ac.uk/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Teaching+Excellence+Award
Elena A Korosteleva, Lecturer in European Politics at Aberystwyth University, has been awarded the BISA/C-SAP Teaching Award for
Excellence in Teaching International Studies (2008-2009), which is awarded annually by the British International Studies Association and Higher Education
Academy Subject Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics. Aberystwyth On-line: http://www.aber.ac.uk/aberonline/en/archive/2010/01/au1110/ See publication: Korosteleva, E. A. (2010) Threshold Concept Through Enactive, Learnings: How Effective Are They in the Study of European Politics?,
International Studies Perspectives, 11, 37-50.
Recent Grants awarded to Threshold Concept Projects
Peter, M. and Harlow, A. [Co-directors], Cowie, B. [Research mentor] , Scott, J., Johnson, M., McKie, D., McKim, A. and Moffat, K. [Research practitioners], The University of Waikato, New Zealand, (2012-2014), Re-envisioning tertiary teaching and learning of difficult concepts: How “threshold concepts” afford understanding of problematic ideas,
A Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) Project, $NZ200,000.
TLRI Project Web Page: http://www.tlri.org.nz/tlri-research/research-progress/post-school-sector/re-envisioning-tertiary-teaching-and-learning (last accessed 21 November 2012)
University of Waikato Project Web Page: http://www.waikato.ac.nz/wmier/research/projects/how-threshold-concepts-afford-understanding-of-problematic-ideas (last accessed 21 November 2012)
Stamboulis, A., Flanagan, M.T., and Baillie, C. (2011 - 2012), Engineering thresholds in engineering curriculum review,
Royal Academy of Engineering National HE STEM Programme Project, £10,000.
Baillie, C. [Project Leader], Male, S., Venn, J., University of Western Australia, (2010), Engineering thresholds: an approach to curriculum renewal,
Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Priority Project Award, $A200,000. UWA Threshold Concept in Engineering Web Site (last accessed 14 December 2010)
Prusty, G. [Project Leader] (2010), An adaptive e-learning community of practice for mechanics courses in engineering Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Award, AU$211,000.
Collaborating institutions: The University of New South Wales (Lead), The University of Tasmania, University of Technology, Sydney and The University of Wollongong
Stamboulis, A., Baillie, C. and Flanagan, M.T. (2010 - 2011), Uncovering threshold values in first year engineering courses and implications for curriculum design,
Royal Academy of Engineering National HE STEM Programme Project, £5,000.
Strobel, J and Hua, I. [Purdue University] (2009 - 2011), Engineering Students’ Attitudes and Threshold Concepts Towards Sustainability and Engineering as Environmental Career, National Science Foundation (NSF) Award, $149,998.
[NSF site: award details last accessed 17 December 2009]
TARGET (2009 - 2012), Transformative, Adaptive, Responsive and enGaging EnvironmenT, European Commission Seventh Framework Information and Communication Technologies Digital Libraries Project Award, 5,800,000 euros.
TARGET will develop a responsive learning system with serious games at its core. The project will integrate several pedagogic concepts, including Threshold Concepts, into serious game design.
Collaborating countries: Austria (Siemens and Graz University of Technology), Finland (Nokia and Helsinki School of Economics), Ireland (Cyntelix), Italy (Giunti Labs), Norway (SINTEF and NTNU), Portugal (Alfamicro and INESC-ID) and The United Kingdom (UCL)
Åkerlind, G. [Project Leader] (2008), A threshold concepts focus to curriculum design: supporting student learning through application of variation theory Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Award, AU$219,000.
Collaborating institutions: The Australian National University (Lead), Queensland University of Technology, The University of Sydney and the University of Technology, Sydney
Project Web Page: http://thresholdvariation.edu.au/
Taylor, C. [Project Leader] (2007), Using threshold concepts to generate a new understanding of teaching and learning biology Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Award, AU$191,400.
Collaborating institutions: The University of Sydney, Taylor, C. (Project Leaser), Tzioumis, V. (Project Officer); The University of New South Wales, Hughes, C., Whitaker, N., Lutze-Mann, L.; The University of Western Sydney, Ross, P. Project Web Page (last accessed 24 January 2010)
D’Agostino, F. [Project Leader] (2009), Closing the gap in curriculum development leadership Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Award, AU$183,509.
Lead institution: The University of Queensland, D’Agostino, F. (Project Leaser), O’Brien, M. Final Report (last accessed 29 August 2012) Extended Project Findings (last accessed 5 July 2011)
Threshold Concept Community Social Networks
JISCM@il TCS
This is a discussion list for threshold concepts set up by Jan Smith as a forum for continuing discussion on threshold concepts following the Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines Symposium, Glasgow, 2006.
URL: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=TCS.
