Threshold concepts and threshold skills in computingShow others and affiliations
2012 (English)In: Proceedings of the ninth annual international conference on International computing education research, New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2012, p. 23-30Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Threshold concepts can be used to both organize disciplinary knowledge and explain why students have difficulties at certain points in the curriculum. Threshold concepts transform a student's view of the discipline; before being learned, they can block a student's progress.
In this paper, we propose that in computing, skills, in addition to concepts, can sometimes be thresholds. Some students report finding skills more difficult than concepts. We discuss some computing skills that may be thresholds and compare threshold skills and threshold concepts.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2012. p. 23-30
Keywords [en]
threshold concepts, threshold skills
National Category
Computer Sciences Didactics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-13491DOI: 10.1145/2361276.2361283Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84867349823ISBN: 978-1-4503-1604-0 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-13491DiVA, id: diva2:573766
Conference
ICER'12 Auckland, September 10-12, 2012, Auckland, New Zealand.
2012-12-032012-12-032018-03-13Bibliographically approved