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Direct linkFouberg, Erin H. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2013
Through qualitative analysis of 80 student essays, the author examines geographic concepts students describe as holding traits of threshold concepts. With a group of 11 Honors students, the author employs metacogntion, asking students to analyze their own learning to discover their threshold concepts. Recognizing the role of liminality, this study…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, World Geography, Essays, Qualitative Research
Skinner, Kate – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2014
The wider context of arts and humanities education in the UK has demanded that university teachers and administrators focus on "end points." Increased emphasis on the generic and transferable skills attained through arts and humanities programmes, along with intense concern to raise students' reported levels of satisfaction, do not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, History, Transfer of Training
Prat-Sala, Merce; Redford, Paul – Educational Psychology, 2012
Self-efficacy beliefs have been identified as associated with students' academic performance. The present research assessed the relationship between two new self-efficacy scales (self-efficacy in reading [SER] and self-efficacy in writing [SEW]) and students' writing performance on a piece of assessed written coursework. Using data from first and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Psychology
