Threshold concepts: How can we recognise them?

Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 70-84

  Davies, Peter ^a  

^a STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84908901980     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203966273     Document Type: Chapter

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