Detecting threshold concepts through Bayesian knowledge tracing: examining research skill development in biological sciences at the doctoral level

An Illustration of Teaching and Assessment Practices of the “Conceptual Framework” as a Threshold Concept

“…Meyer and Timmermans (2016) then introduced their "Integrated Threshold Concept Knowledge" framework, which, more recently, has been further explicated (Timmermans & Meyer 2019). Much of the literature on threshold concepts was initially applied at the undergraduate level and later adopted at the postgraduate level (Kang et al 2022;Lindsay, Jack, & Ambrosini 2018) and taught students about research. The research conducted at the postgraduate level has mainly been focused on the doctoral level (Kiley, 2019), and Flanagan's list includes a section on "Research Education and Doctoral Studies" (https://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~mflanaga/thresholdsR.html#resed).…”

“…The research conducted at the postgraduate level has mainly been focused on the doctoral level (Kiley, 2019), and Flanagan's list includes a section on "Research Education and Doctoral Studies" (https://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~mflanaga/thresholdsR.html#resed). Research-related themes have focused on supervision (Keefer 2015) and the development of the research capacity and skills of the PhD candidate in general (Kang et al 2022), but also examine specific topics such as academic writing (Iermolenko, Aleksandrov, Nazarova, & Bourmistrov 2021).…”