Threshold concepts in Biology: Do they fit the definition?

Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 87-99

  Taylor, Charlotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 84909123298     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203966273     Document Type: Chapter

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