Threshold capabilities: An emerging methodology to locate curricula thresholds

Research in Engineering Education Symposium 2011, REES 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 907-915

  Male, Sally A ^a   Baillie, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCIPLINE-BASED; FOCUS GROUPS; HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCHES; THRESHOLD CONCEPTS;

CURRICULA; ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84883082329     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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