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Management Studies

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Marketing

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Mathematics

  Cruz, S., Lencastre, J. A. and Coutinho, C. (2018) Engaging Students on Learning Tricky Topics in Mathematics Through Creative Skills,
In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2018) - Volume 1, pages 342-349
https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/bitstream/1822/53623/2/2018_a_CSEDU2018_Funchal_Madeira_PT_VideoM           (last accessed: 3 April 2018)

  Breen, S. and O’Shea, A. (2017) Threshold Concepts and Undergraduate Mathematics Teaching,
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2017, edited by Mircea Pitici, Princeton University Press, pp 82-92
https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11102.html           (last accessed: 24 October 2017)

  de Beer, H., Gravemeijer, K. and van Eijck, M. (2017) A Proposed Local Instruction Theory for Teaching Instantaneous Speed in Grade Five,
The Mathematics Enthusiast 14 (1), Article 24.
http://scholarworks.umt.edu/tme/vol14/iss1/24           (last accessed: 26 January 2017)

  Fiedler, D., Tröbst, S. and Harms, U. (2017) University Students’ Conceptual Knowledge of Randomness and Probability in the Contexts of Evolution and Mathematics,
CBE Life Sciences Education 16 (2), ar38: doi: 10.1187/cbe.16-07-0230.
http://www.lifescied.org/content/16/2/ar38.short           (last accessed: 1 July 2017)

  Ryan, A-M. and Gass, S. E. (2017) Quantitative Reasoning: Exploring Troublesome Thresholds,
Discussions on University Science Teaching: Proceedings of the Western Conference on Science Education: Vol. 1 , Article 16
http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/wcsedust/vol1/iss1/16           (last accessed: 29 January 2017)

  Yusaf, F. (2017) Stokes’ Theorem: A candidate threshold concept,
Practice and Evidence of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (PESTLHE), Special Edition: Threshold Concepts 2017, Eds. Ray Land and Julie Rattray, 12, (2), 397-410.
http://community.dur.ac.uk/pestlhe.learning/index.php/pestlhe/article/view/183/206           (last accessed: 13 May 2017)

  Breen, S. and O’Shea, A. (2016) Threshold Concepts & Undergraduate Mathematics Teaching,
PRIMUS: Available online 12 July 2016, DOI: 10.1080/10511970.2016.1191573.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10511970.2016.1191573           (last accessed: 16 July 2016)

  Frith, V. and Lloyd, P. (2016) Investigating Proportional Reasoning in a University Quantitative Literacy Course ,
Numeracy 9 (1), Article 3: DOI: 10.5038/1936-4660.9.1.3.
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/numeracy/vol9/iss1/art3           (last accessed: 18 January 2016)

  Huq, A., Nichols, M. D. and Aryal, B. (2016) Building Blocks: Threshold Concepts and Interdisciplinary Structures of Learning,
in: Threshold Concepts in Practice, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Flanagan, M.T., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei, Chapter 11, pp 135-151,   [book details]

  Zwaneveld, B. (2016) Threshold Concepts in Applied Mathematics Bachelor of Science Programme,
Sixth International Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference, Thresholds on the Edge, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 15-17 June 2016:
http://www.dal.ca/dept/clt/events-news/Threshold_Concepts/program3/C3_2118b.html           (last accessed: 17 July 2016)

  Khalo, X. and Bayaga, A. (2015) Analysis of errors due to deficient mastery of prerequisite skills, facts and concepts: A case of financial mathematics,
The Independent Journal of Teaching and Learning 10, 98-113.
http://iiespace.iie.ac.za/handle/11622/58           (last accessed: 3 November 2015)

  Mason, J. (2015) Crossing the Threshold: epistemological obstacles and pedagogic circumventions,
Institute of Mathematics (IMA) International Conference on Barriers and Enablers to Learning Maths: Enhancing Learning and Teaching for All Learners, 10-12 June 2015, Glasgow, Scotland
http://www.ima.org.uk/_db/_documents/Mason%20-%20Crossing%20the%20Threshold.pdf           (last accessed: 6 October 2015)

  Nolan, C. and Herbert, S. (2015) Introducing linear functions: an alternative statistical approach,
Mathematics Education Research Journal, Available online 15 June 2015, DOI 10.1007/s13394-015-0147-x
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13394-015-0147-x           (last accessed: 6 July 2015)

  Long, C. (2015) Learning Pathways within the Multiplicative Conceptual Field: Insights Reflected through a Rasch Measurement Framework,
Empirische Studien zur Didaktik der Mathematik, Volume 24, Waxman Verlag GmbH, Münster, Germany
Adapted version of Caroline Long’s Doctorate in Education Thesis, University of Cape Town, December 2011
https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=MkpzCgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&ots=xXEvqmAhPN&sig=Fjr70xw7lwgi_TebnNAXl5WwWJs#v=onepage&q&f=false           (last accessed: 6 September 2015)

  Breen, S. and O'Shea, A. (2014) Designing tasks to aid understanding of functions
Fourth Biennial Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012.
Full Paper in Threshold Concepts: From Personal Practice to Communities of Practice, Proceedings of the National Academy's Sixth Annual Conference and the Fourth Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference [e-publication], Editors: Catherine O'Mahony, Avril Buchanan, Mary O'Rourke and Bettie Higgs, January 2014, NAIRTL, Ireland, ISBN: 978-1-906642-59-4, p 171.
http://www.nairtl.ie/documents/EPub_2012Proceedings.pdf#page=181      [last accessed 28 January 2014]

  Northcote, M. (2014) I Hate Maths and Maths Hate Me! Analysing the Development of Threshold Concepts and Attitudes in Preservice Mathematics Teacher Education
Fourth Biennial Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012.
Full Paper in Threshold Concepts: From Personal Practice to Communities of Practice, Proceedings of the National Academy's Sixth Annual Conference and the Fourth Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference [e-publication], Editors: Catherine O'Mahony, Avril Buchanan, Mary O'Rourke and Bettie Higgs, January 2014, NAIRTL, Ireland, ISBN: 978-1-906642-59-4, p 176.
http://www.nairtl.ie/documents/EPub_2012Proceedings.pdf#page=186      [last accessed 28 January 2014]

  Northcote, M. (2014) Threshold concepts and attitudes in mathematics education: Listening to students’ past, present and projected stories,
Fifth International Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference, Threshold Concepts in Practice, Durham University, Durham, UK, 9-11 July, 2014
Abstract:
https://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~mflanaga/abstracts/TC14Abstract18.pdf           (last accessed: 6 July 2014)

  Priss, U. (2014) A pragmatist theory of learning,
Presented at: The Charles S. Peirce Centennial Congress, University of Massachusetts, 2014
http://www.upriss.org.uk/papers/peirce14.pdf           (last accessed: 3 August 2014)

  Quinnell, R., LeBard, R. and Thompson, R. (2014) Academic Numeracy: Challenging Thinking Dispositions to Enable Students to Enter and Cross the Liminal Space
Fourth Biennial Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012.
Full Paper in Threshold Concepts: From Personal Practice to Communities of Practice, Proceedings of the National Academy's Sixth Annual Conference and the Fourth Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference [e-publication], Editors: Catherine O'Mahony, Avril Buchanan, Mary O'Rourke and Bettie Higgs, January 2014, NAIRTL, Ireland, ISBN: 978-1-906642-59-4, p 177.
http://www.nairtl.ie/documents/EPub_2012Proceedings.pdf#page=187      [last accessed 28 January 2014]

  Rohlwink, M. (2014) Threshold concepts - ECP symp. 2014,
ECP symp. 2014:
http://www.slideshare.net/MonikaRohlwink1/threshold-concepts-ecp-symp-2014           (last accessed: 26 January 2016)

  Ryan, A. M., Gass, G., Gass, S., Ryan, K. and Van Dommelen, J. (2014) Quantitative reasoning and visualizing data across the sciences,
Fifth International Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference, Threshold Concepts in Practice, Durham University, Durham, UK, 9-11 July, 2014
Abstract:
https://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~mflanaga/abstracts/TC14Abstract3.pdf            (last accessed: 4 July 2014)

  Wilson, M. (2014) Student and expert perceptions of the role of mathematics within physics,
Waikato Journal of Education (Te Hautaka Mātauranga o Waikato), Special Edition: Emergent learning and threshold concepts in tertiary education 19 (2), 93-103.
http://www.wje.org.nz/index.php/WJE/article/view/101           (last accessed: 12 January 2015)

  Craig, T. S. and Campbell, A. (2013) Vector Calculus for Engineers - The Academic Development Model,
CULMS Newsletter No.7, July 2013, pp 21-25:
http://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/CULMS/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/CULMS-No7-Issue.pdf#page=21           (last accessed: 12 July 2013)

  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)

  Lloyd, P. and Frith, V. (2013) Proportional reasoning as a threshold to numeracy at university: A framework for analysis,
Pythagoras, 34(2), Art. #234, 9 pages on-line:
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/pythagoras.v34i2.234           (last accessed: 16 October 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]

  Quinnell, R., Thompson, R. and LeBard, R. J. (2013) It’s not maths; it’s science: exploring thinking dispositions, learning thresholds and mindfulness in science learning,
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology: Available on-line to journal subscribers, June 2013, DOI:10.1080/0020739X.2013.800598.

  Sollervall, H. (2013) Threshold constructs instrumenting teachers’ orchestration of an inquiry with GeoGebra,
Eighth Congress of European Research in Mathematics Education (CERME 8), 6-10 February 2013, Manavgat-Side, Antalya, Turkey:
http://cerme8.metu.edu.tr/wgpapers/WG15/WG15_Sollervall.pdf           (last accessed: 7 July 2013)

  Wilson, M. (2013) Student and expert perceptions of the role of mathematics within physics,
Transforming Disciplines: Emergent Learning and Threshold Concepts (ELTC),The University of Waikato, New Zealand, 18-19 November, 2013:
https://education.waikato.ac.nz/ELTC/speakers-2/marcus-wilson/           (last accessed: 22 November 2013)

  Easdown, D. and Wood, L. (2012) Novel Threshold Concepts in the Mathematical Sciences
Fourth Biennial Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012.
Full Paper in Threshold Concepts: From Personal Practice to Communities of Practice, Proceedings of the National Academy's Sixth Annual Conference and the Fourth Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference [e-publication], Editors: Catherine O'Mahony, Avril Buchanan, Mary O'Rourke and Bettie Higgs, January 2014, NAIRTL, Ireland, ISBN: 978-1-906642-59-4, pp 44-50.
http://www.nairtl.ie/documents/EPub_2012Proceedings.pdf#page=54      [last accessed 28 January 2014]

  Easdown, D. and Wood, L. (2012) Novel threshold concepts in the mathematical sciences,
University of Sydney School of Mathematics and Statistics Preprint:
http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/pubs/publist/preprints/2012/easdown-16.pdf   [last accessed 26 June 2012]

  Long C. (2012) Mathematical, cognitive and didactic elements of the multiplicative conceptual field investigated within a Rasch assessment and measurement framework,
Durham University School of Education Research Seminar, 9th July 2012.
Presentation: http://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/education/research/Durhamseminar9thJulyforprintingpurposes.pptx     [last accessed: 19 July 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 Biennial 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)

  Bloom, W., Bower, M., Brown, N., Donovan, D., Joshi, N., Loch, B., Skalicky, J. and Wood, L. (2011) Australian Mathematical Society Classroom notes: Threshold Concepts,
http://www.austms.org.au/Publ/Gazette/2011/May11/ClassNotes.pdf   last accessed 10 May 2011

  Easdown, D. (2011) Excursions to and from semantic oblivion,
Proceedings of the 35th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Vol. 1. Ankara, Turkey, 2011:
http://talus.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/pubs/publist/preprints/2011/easdown-2.pdf   [last accessed 19 November 2011]

  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.

  Pettersson, K. (2011) Threshold Concepts: A Framework for Research in University Mathematics Education,
The Seventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (Cerme 7), University of Rzesów, Poland, 9th and 13th February 2011: http://www.cerme7.univ.rzeszow.pl/WG/14/CERME7-WG14-Paper---Petterson-REVISED-Dec2010.pdf   (last accessed 14 November 2011).

  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., Wandel, A. P. and Hartle, R. T. (2010) Scaffolding Distance Learning in Mathematics for Engineering,
STEM in Education Conference, 26 & 27 November 2010 - Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
[http://eprints.usq.edu.au/19325/2/Galligan_Wandel_Hartle_STEM_2010_AV.pdf   last accessed 3 July 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

  Jooganah, K. (2010) Proof as a threshold concept for university mathematics: an exploration of student identity and transition,
Manchester University School of Education document: http://www.education.manchester.ac.uk/research/centres/lta/LTAResearch/transmaths/into-he/_files/Fileuploadmax10Mb,176918,en.pdf   (last accessed 19 October 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]

  Easdown, D. (2009) Syntactic and semantic reasoning in mathematics teaching and learning,
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 40(7), 941-949.
[http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/pubs/publist/preprints/2009/easdown-12.pdf   last accessed 7 October 2009]

  Long C. (2009) From Whole Number to Real Number: Applying Rasch Measurement to Investigate Threshold Concepts,
Pythagoras, 70, 32-34.
http://pythagoras.org.za/index.php/pythagoras/article/view/37/28   [last accessed 18 November 2011].

  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.
[http://science.uniserve.edu.au/pubs/procs/2008/139.pdf   last accessed 23 July 2009]

Materials Science

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Engineering: Metallurgy and Materials

Mechanical Engineering

See Engineering: Mechanical Engineering

Media Literacy

See also
Information Literacy

  Chen, D-L. and Rattray, J. (2017) Transforming Thinking through Problem-based Learning in the News Media Literacy Class: Critical thinking as a threshold concept towards threshold capabilities,
Practice and Evidence of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (PESTLHE), Special Edition: Threshold Concepts 2017, Eds. Ray Land and Julie Rattray, 12, (2), 272-293.
http://community.dur.ac.uk/pestlhe.learning/index.php/pestlhe/article/view/172/200           (last accessed: 15 May 2017)

  Gillie, M., Dahli, R., Saunders, F. and Gibson, A. (2016) How Engineering Undergraduates use Rich-Media Resources,
6th International Symposium for Engineering Education, 2016, The University of Sheffield, July 2016, UK
http://fionasaunders.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Gillie-et-al-2016-How-Engineering-Undergraduates-use-video-resources-ISEE-2016.pdf           (last accessed: 6 September 2016)

  Chen, D-L. (2015) Developing Critical Thinking through Problem-Based Learning: an Action Research for a Class of Media Literacy ,
Doctor of Education Thesis, School of Education, Durham University, April 2015
http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11204/           (last accessed: 21 July 2015)

  Chen, D-L. (2014) Transformation in Thinking through Collaborative Work in the News Media Literacy Class: the Shifting Identity of the Teacher as a Researcher ,
Fifth International Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference, Threshold Concepts in Practice, Durham University, Durham, UK, 9-11 July, 2014
Abstract:
https://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~mflanaga/abstracts/TC14Abstract58.pdf           (last accessed: 6 July 2014)

Medicine

See Health Care: Medicine

Mental Health

See Health Care: Mental Health

Mentoring

  Bilbrough, P. (2016) Student Mentoring Identities on Film ―the pleasures and risks of a collaborative non-curricular project ,
5th International Academic Identities Conference 2016, Academic life in the measured university: pleasures, paradoxes and politics, 29 June - 1 July 2016, The University of Sydney, Australia
http://sydney.edu.au/education-portfolio/ei/cms/files/2A_Bilbrough.pdf           (last accessed: 26 May 2016)

  Starr-Glass, D. (2013) Threshold Work: Sustaining Liminality in Mentoring International Students,
International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education 2 (2), Availble to journal subscribers on-line, July 2013.

  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 Biennial 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, Metacogntion, Reflexivity and Critical Reflection

See also
Critical Thinking

  Hyde, S., Flatau, A. and Wilson, D. (2018) Integrating threshold concepts with reflective practice: Discussing a theory-based approach for curriculum refinement in dental education,
European Journal of Dental Education: Available online 1 July 2018, .
https://doi.org/10.1111/eje.12380           (last accessed: 10 October 2018)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/eje.12380           (last accessed: 10 October 2018)

  Paquette, A. J. (2018) The development of proficiency among undergraduate digital art students,
Doctor of Philosphy Thesis, King’s College, London, 25 May, 2018
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/158139585.pdf           (last accessed: 17 July 2018)

  Seal, M. (2018) PPIR’s key claim: towards critical pedagogic reflective spaces,
In: Participatory Pedagogic Impact Research: Co-production with Community Partners in Action, Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, Chapter 4
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317532927/chapters/10.4324%2F9781315725093-13           (last accessed: 9 July 2018)

  Thompson, R. and Twissell, A. (2018) Exploring goal orientation and philosophical identity: A reflection on two doctoral learning journeys and emerging research intentions ,
The Higher Education Journal of Learning and Teaching 9 (2), : Available online August 2018.
http://hejlt.org/article/exploring-goal-orientation-and-philosophical-identity-a-reflection-on-two-doctoral-learning-journeys-and-emerging-research-intentions/           (last accessed: 22 August 2018)

  Field, J. C., Walmsley, A. D., Paganelli, C., McLoughlin, J., Szép, S., Kavadella, A., Manzanares Céspedes, M. C., Davies, J. R., DeLap, E., Levy, G., Gallagher, J., Roger-Leroi, V. and G. Cowpe, J. (2017) The Graduating European Dentist: Contemporaneous Methods of Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Dental Undergraduate Education,
European Journal of Dental Education 21 (S1), 28-35.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eje.12312/full           (last accessed: 10 December 2017)

  Goebel, J. L. S. (2017) Students’ Learning of Threshold Concepts in Undergraduate Economics,
Doctor of Philosophy Thesis, School of Education, College of Humanities, University of KwaZulu-Natal, January 2017
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316543406_Students%27_learning_of_threshold_concepts_in_undergraduate_economics           (last accessed: 26 September 2017)

  Leering, M. M. (2017) Integrated Reflective Practice: A Critical Imperative for Enhancing Legal Education and Professionalism,
Canadian Bar Review 95, 47-89.
https://cbaapps.org/cba_barreview/Search.aspx?VolDate=09%2f01%2f2017           (last accessed: 31 October 2017)

  Riddell, J. (2017) Putting authentic learning on trial: Using trials as a pedagogical model for teaching in the humanities ,
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: Available online 27 July 2017; DOI 10.1177/1474022217722510.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1474022217722510           (last accessed: 3 August 2017)

  Scott, R. E. (2017) Transformative? Integrative? Troublesome? Undergraduate Honors Student Reflections on Information Literacy Threshold Concepts,
Communications in Information Literacy 11 (2), 283-301.
https://doi.org/10.15760/comminfolit.2017.11.2.3           (last accessed: 20 January 2018)

  Winslow, D. and Shaw, P. (2017) Teaching Metacognition to Reinforce Agency and Transfer in Course-linked First-year Courses,
Chapter 10, Contemporary Perspectives on Cognition and Writing, Edited by Patricia Portanova, J. Michael Rifenburg, and Duane Roen, The WAC Clearinghouse:
https://wac.colostate.edu/books/cognition/chapter10.pdf           (last accessed: 16 November 2017)

  Chandler, Q. (2016) Cognition or Spiritual Disposition? Threshold Concepts in Theological Reflection,
Journal of Adult Theological Education [Themed Issue on Theological Education and Threshold Concepts] 13 (2), 90-102.
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  Crooks, S. (2016) Developing Critical Capacity and Disposition in the Classroom: Journaling Argument,
Sixth International Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference, Thresholds on the Edge, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 15-17 June 2016:
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  Elliott, S., Glynn, A. and Morris, J. (2016) From Practitioner to Researcher: A Threshold Concept ― A personal reflection on my own ‘tug of war',
International Journal of Practice-based Learning in Health and Social Care 4 (1), 78-87.
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  Lutz, B., Blakely, B., Rose, K. and Ballard, T. M. (2016) Learning and Reflecting with ISUComm ePortfolios: Exploring Technological and Curricular Places,
Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, Issue Ten, November 28, 2016
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  Meulemans, Y. N., Carr, A. and Quinonez, T. (2016) Where are They? Using Students’ Reflective Work to Design Curriculum, Assess Learning, and Help them Through Liminality,
Sixth International Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference, Thresholds on the Edge, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 15-17 June 2016:
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  Meyer, J. H. F., Knight, D. B., Baldock, T. E., Callaghan, D. P., McCredden, J. and O’Moore, L. (2016) What to Do with a Threshold Concept: A Case Study,
in: Threshold Concepts in Practice, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Flanagan, M.T., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei, Chapter 15, pp 195-209,   [book details]

  Meyer, J. H. F. and Timmermans, J. A. (2016) Integrated Threshold Concept Knowledge,
in: Threshold Concepts in Practice, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Flanagan, M.T., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei, Chapter 3, pp 25-38,   [book details].

  Meyer, J. H. F. (2016) Threshold concepts and pedagogic representation,
Education + Training 58 (5), .
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  Nye, A., Clark, J., Bidwell, P., Deschamps, B., Frickman, L. and Green, J. (2016) Writing the (researcher) self: reflective practice and undergraduate research,
Reflective Practice: Available online 29 Apr 2016, DOI: 10.1080/14623943.2016.1146577 .
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  Trelfa, J. (2016) Reflective practice/curating practice,
In Conference Proceedings of the Empowering the Intangible Art of Management & Organization Conference 2016, IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia, 1-4 September 2016, pp 128-139
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  Hibbert, P. and Cunliffe, A. (2015) Responsible management: Engaging moral reflexive practice through threshold concepts,
Journal of Business Ethics 127 (1), 177-188: DOI 10.1007/s10551-013-1993-7.

  Meyer, J. H. F., Knight, D. B., Callaghan, D. P. and Baldock, T. E. (2015) Threshold concepts as a focus for metalearning activity: application of a research-developed mechanism in undergraduate engineering,
Innovations in Education and Teaching International: Available online: 03 Mar 2015; DOI:10.1080/14703297.2015.1017515.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2015.1017515           (last accessed: 10 March 2015)

  Smith, J. (2015) Reflections on teaching research ethics in education for international postgraduate students in the UK,
Teaching in Higher Education: Available online: 25 Nov 2015, DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2015.1115968.
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  Taczak, K. (2015) Reflection Is Critical for Writers’ Development,
In ‘Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies’, eds Adler-Kassner, L. and Wardle, E., pp 78-83 [book details]

  Tinberg, H. (2015) Metacognition Is Not Cognition,
In ‘Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies’, eds Adler-Kassner, L. and Wardle, E., pp 75-76 [book details]

  Meyer, J. H. F., Knight, D. B., Baldock, T. E., Callaghan, D. P., McCredden, J. and O’Moore, L. (2014) What to do with a Threshold Concept: A case study,
Fifth International Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference, Threshold Concepts in Practice, Durham University, Durham, UK, 9-11 July, 2014
Abstract:
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  Meyer, J. H. F., Knight, D. B., Callaghan, D. P. and Baldock, T. E. (2014) An empirical exploration of metacognitive assessment activities in a third-year civil engineering hydraulics course,
European Journal of Engineering Education; Available online: 14 November 2014, DOI:10.1080/03043797.2014.960367
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  Foote, W. (2013) Threshold Theory and Social Work Education,
Social Work Education, 32 (4), 424-438.

  Percy, B. (2013) In what way do the ‘aha’ moments experienced by the lecturer inform lecturer efficacy?,
Transforming Disciplines: Emergent Learning and Threshold Concepts (ELTC),The University of Waikato, New Zealand, 18-19 November, 2013:
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  Richards, R. W. and Richards, L. M. (2013) Sponges do not make their own water: student engagement through dialogue and the development of reflective consciousness,
Reflective Practice: Available on-line to the journal subscribers, 16 September 2013, DOI: 10.1080/14623943.2013.836083.

  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
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  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.
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  Ó Donnchadha, B. (2012) Moving from Personal Practice to Communities of Reflective Practice: A Model for Professional Development,
Fourth Biennial 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 Biennial Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012.
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  Percy, B. (2012) Concept Thresholds: The Key to Self-efficacy and Effective Teaching in Higher Education,
New Zealand Journal of Teachers’ Work 9 (2), 119-123.
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  Wuetherick, B. (2012) Expectation Failure and the Pedagogy of Threshold Concepts,
Fourth Biennial 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,
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).
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  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.

  Meyer, J.H.F, Ward, S.C. and Latreille, P. (2009) Threshold concepts and metalearning capacity,
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  Hibbert, P. (2009) Reflexivity as a Threshold Concept: Troublesome Understanding,
The Academy of Management Proceedings, Volume 2009, Annual Meeting Proceedings

  Lee, A (2007) How Can a Mentor Support Experiential Learning?,
Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 12 (3), 333-340.

  Efklides, A. (2006) Metacognition, affect, and conceptual difficulty,
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  Philip, L. (2006) Encouraging reflective practice amongst students: a direct assessment approach,
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Metadisciplinarity

See also
Inter-, multi- and trans-disiplinarity

  Basgier, C. (2016) Engaging the Skeptics: Threshold Concepts, Metadisciplinary Writing, and the Aspirations of General Education,
The Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Journal 27, 17-35.
https://wac.colostate.edu/journal/vol27/vol27.pdf           (last accessed: 26 January 2017)

Metallurgy

See Engineering: Metallurgy and Materials

Metaphor

  Garcia, L. and Labatte, J. (2015) Threshold Concepts as Metaphors for the Creative Process: Adapting the Framework for Information Literacy to Studio Art Classes,
Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America 34 (2), 235-248: DOI: 10.1086/683383.
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  Mason, J. (2015) Crossing the Threshold: epistemological obstacles and pedagogic circumventions,
Institute of Mathematics (IMA) International Conference on Barriers and Enablers to Learning Maths: Enhancing Learning and Teaching for All Learners, 10-12 June 2015, Glasgow, Scotland
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  Weigend, M. (2014) A Formula is an Orange Juice Squeezer - Understanding Spreadsheet Calculation Through Metaphors,
Local Proceedingsof the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution and Perspectives, ISSEP 2014, 22-25 September 2014, Istanbul, Turkey, pages 57-68
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  Edwards, R. M. (2013) Opening the door on student learning: using artefacts to explore pharmacy students’ learning practices,
Doctor of Education Thesis, School of Education, University of Stirling, May 2013
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  Price, F. (2013) Proximal ethnography: ‘inside-outinside’ research and the impact of shared metaphors of learning,
Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice: Available to journal subscribers, 13 August 2013; DOI: 10.1080/13540602.2013.827451.

  Kautz, C. and Brose, A.(2012) Threshold Concepts in Introductory Engineering: Useful Metaphor or Empirically Based Construct?
Fourth Biennial Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012.
Book of Conference Abstracts: page 75   [last accessed 30 June 2012].

  Stadig Degerman M. (2012) Att hantera cellmetabolismens komplexitet: Meningsskapande genom visualisering och metaforer,
[Handling complex cell metabolism: Creating meaning through visualisation and metaphor]
Doctoral thesis, Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University
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  Kabo, J., Baillie, C. and Reader, J. (2010) A Thousand Plateaus: a visual metaphor for the liminal space,
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

Microbiology

See
Life Sciences: Microbiology

Military Education

  Syed Mohamed, A. T. F., Land, R. and Rattray, J. (2016) Ambivalence, Hybridity and Liminality: The Case of Military Education,
in: Threshold Concepts in Practice, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Flanagan, M.T., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei, Chapter 7, pp 77-91,   [book details]

  Syed-Mohamed, A. T. F. B. (2016) Civilian to Officer: Threshold Concepts in Military Officers’ Education,
PhD Thesis, School of Education, Durham University, September 2016
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  Syed Mohamed, A. T. F. (2016) Civilian to Officer: Threshold Concepts in Military Officers Education,
Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities 24 (4), 1793-1809.
http://www.pertanika.upm.edu.my/Pertanika%20PAPERS/JSSH%20Vol.%2024%20(4)%20Dec.%202016%20(View%20Full%20Journal).pdf           (last accessed: 24 January 2017)

  Syed Mohamed, A. T. F. B. (2014) Threshold Concepts in Professional Military Education for Developing Military Leaders of the 21st Century,
Fifth International Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference, Threshold Concepts in Practice, Durham University, Durham, UK, 9-11 July, 2014
Abstract:
https://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~mflanaga/abstracts/TC14Abstract19.pdf           (last accessed: 6 July 2014)

  Syed Mohamed, A. T. F. (2013) Threshold Concepts and the Development of Military Leaders for the 21st Century: A Study of Military Education at the National Defence University of Malaysia,
Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Research Conference 2013 and New Researchers Conference 2013, Experiencing higher education: Global Trends and Transformations, Celtic Manor Resort, Newport, Wales, UK, 10-13 December 2013:
http://www.srhe.ac.uk/conference2013/download/SRHE-NR-Abstracts-2013.pdf           (last accessed: 24 November 2013)

Mimicry

  Syed Mohamed, A. T. F., Land, R. and Rattray, J. (2016) Ambivalence, Hybridity and Liminality: The Case of Military Education,
in: Threshold Concepts in Practice, Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Flanagan, M.T., (eds), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei, Chapter 7, pp 77-91,   [book details]

  Syed-Mohamed, A. T. F. B. (2016) Civilian to Officer: Threshold Concepts in Military Officers’ Education,
PhD Thesis, School of Education, Durham University, September 2016
http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11779/           (last accessed: 23 October 2016)

  Syed Mohamed, A. T. F. (2016) Civilian to Officer: Threshold Concepts in Military Officers Education,
Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities 24 (4), 1793-1809.
http://www.pertanika.upm.edu.my/Pertanika%20PAPERS/JSSH%20Vol.%2024%20(4)%20Dec.%202016%20(View%20Full%20Journal).pdf           (last accessed: 24 January 2017)

Mining

See
Engineering: Civil Engineering

Misconceptions

  Poutot, G. and Blandin, B. (2015) Exploration of Students’ Misconceptions in Mechanics using the FCI,
American Journal of Educational Research 3 (2), 116-120: doi: 10.12691/education-3-2-2.
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  Göransson, A. (2013) What do upper secondary students learn about evolution from an animation of antibiotic resistance?,
Linköping University Teacher Education Program Dissertation
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  Wardle, E. and Downs, D. (2012) Reflecting Back and Looking Forward: "Revisiting Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions" Five Years On,
Composition Forum: Volume 26: Fall 2012
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  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.

  Moss K, Greenall, C, Rockcliffe, A, Crowley M and Mealing, A. (2007) Threshold concepts, misconceptions and common issues.,
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Models and Modelling

  Brückner, S. and Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, O. (2018) Threshold Concepts for Modeling and Assessing Higher Education Students’ Understanding and Learning in Economics,
In: Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia O., Toepper M., Pant H., Lautenbach C., Kuhn C. (eds) Assessment of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education. Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment. Springer, 2018
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Barrett, T. (2017) A New Model of Problem-Based Learning: Inspiring Concepts, Practice Strategies and Case Studies from Higher Education,
Publisher: All Ireland Society for Higher Education (AISHE), Maynooth, Ireland, ISBN: 978-0-9935254-6-9
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  Jones, P. (2017) Exploring the relationship of threshold concepts and Hodges’ model of care from the individual to populations and global health,
Revista Cuidarte 8 (3), 1697-720.
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https://www.revistacuidarte.org/index.php/cuidarte/article/view/464/821           (last accessed: 5 September 2017)

  Riddell, J. (2017) Putting authentic learning on trial: Using trials as a pedagogical model for teaching in the humanities ,
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: Available online 27 July 2017; DOI 10.1177/1474022217722510.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1474022217722510           (last accessed: 3 August 2017)
[Laws,  English,  
  Convertino, C. (2016) Beyond Ethnic Tidbits: Toward a Critical and Dialogical Model in Multicultural Social Justice Teacher Preparation,
International Journal of Multicultural Education 18 (2), 125-142.
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  Didiş Körhasan, N. and Wang, L. (2016) Students’ mental models of atomic spectra,
Chemistry Education Research and Practice: Available online 20 May 2016, DOI: 10.1039/C6RP00051G.
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  Forbes-Lorman, R. M., Harris, M. A., Chang, W. S., Dent, E. W., Nordheim, E. V. and Franzen, M. A. (2016) Physical models have gender-specific effects on student understanding of protein structure―function relationships,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education
Available online 29 FEB 2016, DOI: 10.1002/bmb.20956
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bmb.20956/full           (last accessed: 5 March 2016)

  Hodge, S., Atkins, L. and Simons, M. (2016) Towards an epistemically neutral curriculum model for vocational education: from competencies to threshold concepts and practices,
International Journal of Training Research 14 (3), 230-243: DOI: 10.1080/14480220.2016.1256895.
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  Adler-Kassner, L. (2014) Liberal Learning, Professional Training, and Disciplinarity in the Age of Educational "Reform": Remodeling General Education,
College English, 76 (5), May 2014:
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  Barradell, S. and Kennedy-Jones, M. (2014) Bringing together threshold concepts, curriculum and student learning: A model for focusing the studies of a discipline,
Fifth International Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference, Threshold Concepts in Practice, Durham University, Durham, UK, 9-11 July, 2014
Abstract:
https://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~mflanaga/abstracts/TC14Abstract23.pdf           (last accessed: 5 July 2014)

  Coven, R. (2014) Finding Understanding: Theoretical Modeling, Threshold Concepts, and Educational Reform,
Philosophers of Education: Major Thinkers from the Enlightenment to the Post-Modern Era, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Seminar, Summer, 2014, Boston University, July 31, 2014
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  McCulloch, R. and Field, R. (2014) An intentional class design model to engage first year students with threshold concepts using the academic discourse theories of Vygotsky and Laurillard. ,
In Creagh, Tracey (Ed.) 17 International First year in Higher Education Conference Proceedings, IFYHE Conference, Darwin, Australia.
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  Orsini-Jones, M. (2014) Towards a Role-Reversal Model of Threshold Concept Pedagogy
Fourth Biennial Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012.
Full Paper in Threshold Concepts: From Personal Practice to Communities of Practice, Proceedings of the National Academy's Sixth Annual Conference and the Fourth Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference [e-publication], Editors: Catherine O'Mahony, Avril Buchanan, Mary O'Rourke and Bettie Higgs, January 2014, NAIRTL, Ireland, ISBN: 978-1-906642-59-4, pp 78-82.
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  Scott, J. (2014) Forging the jewels of the curriculum: Educational practice inspired by a thermodynamic model of threshold concepts,
Waikato Journal of Education (Te Hautaka Mātauranga o Waikato), Special Edition: Emergent learning and threshold concepts in tertiary education 19 (2), 115―121.
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  Carstensen, A-K. (2013) Connect - Modelling Learning to Facilitate Linking Models and the Real World through Lab-work in Electric Circuit Courses for Engineering Students ,
Linköping Studies in Science and Technology, Dissertation No. 1529, Studies in Science and Technology Education, No. 67, Linköping University, Sweden, 2013
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  Craig, T. S. and Campbell, A. (2013) Vector Calculus for Engineers - The Academic Development Model,
CULMS Newsletter No.7, July 2013, pp 21-25:
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  Kewley, C., Hunter, S. and Jeffree, W. (2013) Feasibility Study: A Proposed Model of a ‘Healthy Ageing Clinic’ and Team Based Curricular for Clinical Placement of Healthcare Students,
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  Åkerlind, G., McKenzie, J. and Wilson, A. (2012) A New Model for Teaching and Learning of Threshold Concepts
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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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  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.

  Ó Donnchadha, B. (2012) Moving from Personal Practice to Communities of Reflective Practice: A Model for Professional Development,
Fourth Biennial 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].

  Pilkington, M. (2012) Playing with Models to Conceptualise, Support and Assess Professional Learning,
Fourth Biennial 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].

  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

  Bernhard, J., Carstensen, A-K. and Holmberg, M. (2011) Analytical tools in engineering education research: The “learning a complex concept” model, threshold concepts and key concepts in understanding and designing for student learning,
Proceedings of the Research in Engineering Education Symposium 2011 - Madrid.
[http://webstaff.itn.liu.se/~jonbe/fou/didaktik/papers/REES_paper_Bernhard_2011_final.pdf   last accessed 9 August 2011]

  Harlow, A., Scott, J., Peter, M. and Cowie, B. (2011) “Getting stuck” in analogue electronics: threshold concepts as an explanatory model,
European Journal of Engineering Education, 36 (5), 435-447.

  Kautz, C.H. (2011) Student understanding of modeling aspects in introductory circuit analysis,
Proceedings of the Research in Engineering Education Symposium 2011, Madrid, pp 1-6.
http://www.contigovoy.es/rees/submissions/rees2011_submission_97.pdf       (last accessed; 30 October 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

  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.

  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).

  Foley. (2010) Threshold concepts and disciplinary ways of thinking and practicing: modelling in electronic engineering,
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) Threshold concepts and a punctuated model of learning.,
Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Research Conference 2010, 14-16 December 2010, Celtic Manor, Newport, Wales
http://www.srhe.ac.uk/conference2010/abstracts/0045.pdf   (last accessed 15 December 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.

  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.

  Macdonald, J. and and Black, A. (2009) Threshold concepts and troublesome 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.

  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

  Park, E-J and Light, G. (2009) Identifying Atomic Structure as a Threshold Concept: Student mental models and troublesomeness,
International Journal of Science Education, 31 (2), 233-258 [published initially on-line as iFirst Article, 2008, 1-26]
See also http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a785921373&fulltext=713240928
[Short poster summary of this paper by Park, E-J., Light, G. and Drane, D.: http://www.nclt.us/grg/31957.pdf   last accessed 21 September 2009]

  Baillie C. and Johnson, A. (2008) A Threshold Model for Attitudes in First Year Engineering Students,
in: Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines, eds. Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Smith, J., Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp 129-142,   [book details].

  Bernhard, J. and Carstensen, A-K. (2007) Modelling and learning a complex concept - an exploration in light of some examples from electric circuit theory,
Paper presented at ESERA2007, Malmö, August 21-25, 2007.
[http://staffwww.itn.liu.se/~jonbe/fou/didaktik/papers/ESERA2007_Bernhard.pdf   last accessed 25 June 2008]

  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]

  Riley, D. (2006) Modelling change with system dynamics and with threshold concepts,
Planet No 17, December 2006, pp 14-15.
[http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rhep12/17/1   last accessed 21 January 2015]

Molecular Biology

See
Life Sciences: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Motivation

  Morales, H. and Barnes, M. (2018) The Baltimore Mural Project: An approach to threshold concepts in religious studies,
Teaching Theology & Religion 21 (3), 185-196: DOI: 10.1111/teth.12440.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/teth.12440           (last accessed: 14 July 2018)

  Roberts, L. (2016) Research in the Real World: Improving Adult Learners’ Web Search and Evaluation Skills through Motivational Design and Problem-Based Learning,
College and Research Libraries: Available online May 31, 2016: Manuscript#: crl16-887.
http://crl.acrl.org/content/early/2016/06/02/crl16-887.full.pdf+html           (last accessed: 14 June 2016)

  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

Museum Studies

  Remes, A. (2013) Memory, Identity and the Supranational History Museum: The House of European History Creating a Place for Reflection and Debate or Constructing a European Master Narrative?,
Masters Thesis, Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, Universiteit Gent
http://lib.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG01/002/060/150/RUG01-002060150_2013_0001_AC.pdf           (last accessed: 4 January 2014)

  Duhs, R. (2010) Learning from university museums and collections in higher education: University College London (UCL),
University Museums and Collections Journal, 3, 183-186:
http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/umacj/2010/duhs-183/PDF/duhs.pdf   [last accessed 10 February 2012]

Music

  Scott, R. E. (2017) Performance as Conversation: Dialogic Aspects of Music Performance and Study,
Chapter 17 in Disciplinary Applications of Information Literacy Threshold Concepts, Ed. Samantha Godbey, Sue Wainscott and Xan Goodman, Association of College & Research Libraries
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rachel_Scott6/contributions           (last accessed: 3 December 2017)

  Wenden, L. (2015) Talking about transition: an exploration of the secondary to tertiary process for music students in a New Zealand context,
Master of Music in Musicology Thesis, Massey University and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
http://mro.massey.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10179/7183/02_whole.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y           (last accessed: 24 October 2015)

  Senior, A. (2014) Space, Materials, and Threshold Concepts:A Report of Canadian Association of Music Libraries Conference CAML 2014, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Brock University, May 28-30, 2014. Session E,
CAML Review / Revue de l’ACBM 42 (2), 21-22.
http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/caml/article/viewFile/39541/35850           (last accessed: 13 September 2014)

  Snyder, L. (2014) ‘Threshold concepts’ and information literacy for music,
Canadian Association of Music Libraries Conference CAML 2014, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Brock University, May 28-30, 2014.

  Countryman, J. (2012) Learning posts: A pedagogical experiment with undergraduate music education majors,
International Journal of Education & the Arts, 13 (7):
http://www.ijea.org/v13n7/   [last accessed 14 December 2012].

  Spencer, P. (2012) Identifying and Addressing Threshold Principles in the Study of Classical Voice,
Fourth Biennial Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012.
Book of Conference Abstracts: page 124-125   [last accessed 10 July 2012].




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