Threshold Concepts and Heuristics

    • Sample CoRE (Identifying Threshold Concepts with Teachers)
    • Interesting Quotation from the Article: "If we ask students direct questions pertaining to theoretical principles, we risk getting responses that mirror verbatim learning only. If, on the other hand, we ask real-world questions, we are in fact testing much more than the students’ knowledge of theoretical principles. We are also testing their ability to contextualize problems in the realm of the appropriate . . . field as well as their ability to identify a problem as a case in which a . . .  principle is to be applied." (HalldeÅLn 1999, p. 56)