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Direct linkCherkas, Barry – PRIMUS, 2023
An online intro-to-proof course provided an unexpected opportunity for a series of email exchanges that yielded insights into one student's mathematical thinking and the ambiguous role of mathematical jargon in miscuing this student's reasoning. The jargon deals with the notation [limit value of a function], which encapsulates multiple conceptual…
Descriptors: Jargon, Mathematics Education, Thinking Skills, Online Courses
Download full textTaylor, Z. W.; Weber, Karla; Holthaus, Gretchen – Higher Education Politics & Economics, 2021
Since 2012, many Title IV institutions of higher education have sent their students debt letters to inform them of their outstanding loan amounts, estimated or real monthly payments, and other loan-related information. However, no extant research has analyzed whether these letters are written at an appropriate level for college students, nor has…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Content Analysis, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Student Loan Programs
Kruppa, Jochen; Rohmann, Jessica; Herrmann, Carolin; Sieg, Miriam; Rubarth, Kerstin; Piper, Sophie – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2021
"The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for" (Wittgenstein). When learning something completely new, we connect the unknown term to an already existing part of our knowledge. We can only build new ideas and insights upon an existing conceptual foundation. In the field of statistics, we…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, College Faculty, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Achievement
Hill, Sophie – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
It has been stated that a criterion of a threshold concept is that it is troublesome or difficult to understand. However, not all difficult concepts are also threshold concepts. This article explores this difference through the context of students' difficulties in learning prosthetics and two models of describing threshold concepts. Students and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fundamental Concepts, Difficulty Level, Assistive Technology
Rees, Simon William; Kind, Vanessa; Newton, Douglas – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2018
Students commonly find the language of chemistry challenging and a barrier to developing understanding. This study investigated developments in chemical language understanding by a group of non-traditional students over the duration of a one year pre-undergraduate (Foundation) course at a UK university. The chemistry course was designed to include…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Foreign Countries, College Science, Introductory Courses
Hora, Matthew T.; Smolarek, Bailey B.; Martin, Kelly Norris; Scrivener, Luke – American Educational Research Journal, 2019
One of the problematic features of the "skills discourse" is the view that skills are decontextualized bits of knowledge and disposition. Instead, how skills such as communication are defined and used are shaped by cultural, political, and situational factors. In this article, we integrate theory from communication studies, critical…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Job Skills
