Threshold concepts and threshold skills in computingShow others and affiliations
2012 (English)In: ICER '12: Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on international computing education research, ACM Digital Library, 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
ACM Digital Library, 2012. p. 23-30
Keywords [en]
Threshold concepts, Threshold skills
National Category
Other Computer and Information Science Didactics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-206437DOI: 10.1145/2361276.2361283Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84867349823ISBN: 9781450316040 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-206437DiVA, id: diva2:1749251
Conference
9th Annual International Conference on International Computing Education Research, ICER 2012, Auckland, New Zealand, September 9-11, 2012
2023-04-062023-04-062023-04-06Bibliographically approved