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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Threshold Capabilities: Threshold Concepts and Knowledge Capability Linked through Variation Theory
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Baillie, Caroline; Bowden, John A.; Meyer, Jan H. F. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2013
The Threshold Capability Integrated Theoretical Framework (TCITF) is presented as a framework for the design of university curricula, aimed at developing graduates' capability to deal with previously unseen situations in their professional, social, and personal lives. The TCITF is a new theoretical framework derived from, and heavily dependent…
Descriptors: Models, Instruction, Evaluation, Curriculum Design
Relationships between Hong Kong Students' Perceptions of the Learning Environment and Their Learning Patterns in Post-Secondary Education
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Law, Dennis C. S.; Meyer, Jan H. F. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
The present study aims to analyse the complex relationships between the relevant constructs of students' demographic background, perceptions, learning patterns and (proxy measures of) learning outcomes in order to delineate the possible direct, indirect, or spurious effects among them. The analytical methodology is substantively framed against the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Higher Education, College Students, Student Attitudes
Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge (2): Epistemological Considerations and a Conceptual Framework for Teaching and Learning
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Meyer, Jan H. F.; Land, Ray – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2005
The present study builds on earlier work by Meyer and Land (2003) which introduced the generative notion of "threshold concepts" within (and across) disciplines, in the sense of transforming the internal view of subject matter or part thereof. In this earlier work such concepts were further linked to forms of knowledge that are "troublesome",…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Teaching Methods
Modelling the Influences on Learning Outcomes of Study Processes in University Mathematics
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Eley, Malcolm G.; Meyer, Jan H. F. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
The field trialling of inventory scales reflecting variation in students' mathematics study and learning processes is described. These scales predict learning outcomes (final marks), but with differentiated patterns of relationship to those outcomes. In combination, the scales also detect cohorts of students at risk of study failure. The work…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Learning Processes, Mathematics Education, Individual Differences