Final Report : A Threshold Concepts Focus to Curriculum Design : Supporting Student Learning Through Application of Variation Theory.
Final report from a project that developed and evaluated a model of curriculum design that aimed to assist first-year students' learning of foundational threshold concepts in disciplines. Two contrasting disciplines, physics and law, were selected for the project, to ensure broad applicability...
| Institutions: | Australian National University University of Technology, Sydney Queensland University of Technology University of Sydney |
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Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)
2011
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| Online dostop: | /resources/PP8_885_Final_Report_Akerlind_2011.pdf |
| Izvleček: | Final report from a project that developed and evaluated a model of curriculum design that aimed to assist first-year students' learning of foundational threshold concepts in disciplines. Two contrasting disciplines, physics and law, were selected for the project, to ensure broad applicability of the model across disciplines. Two teaching teams of physics and law lecturers and tutors/demonstrators from four universities (The Australian National University, Queensland University of Technology, University of Sydney, University of Technology Sydney) participated in the project, facilitated and led by educational developers/researchers from each institution. Measurement uncertainty (physics) and legal reasoning (law) were chosen as the threshold concepts. Students' understandings of the concepts were investigated through phenomenographic action research, which then informed curriculum design based on variation theory. The reported impact of the project on lecturers' understanding of student difficulties in learning the concepts, and how best to teach the concepts was profound. |
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| ISBN: | 9780642781796 (PDF) 9780642781802 (RTF) 9780642781789 (print ed) 9780642781796 (PDF) 9780642781802 (RTF) 9780642781789 (print ed) |
