ArticleFree Access

Conceptual Characterization of Threshold Concepts in Student Explanations of Evolution by Natural Selection and Effects of Item Context

Andreas Göransson

*Address correspondence to: Andreas Göransson (E-mail Address: [email protected]). ORCID: 0000-0001-5038-9630.

Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, SE-601 74 Norrköping, Sweden

Search for more papers by this author

,

Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, SE-601 74 Norrköping, Sweden

Search for more papers by this author

,

Daniela Fiedler

Department of Biology Education, IPN–Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education, 24118 Kiel, Germany

Search for more papers by this author

, and

Lena A. E. Tibell

Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, SE-601 74 Norrköping, Sweden

Search for more papers by this author

Jennifer Momsen, Monitoring Editor

Published Online:9 Jan 2020https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-03-0056

Supplemental Material

combinedsupmats.pdf (522 KB)

Vol. 19, No. 1

March 01, 2020

Supplemental Materials

Metrics

Downloads & Citations

Downloads: 1663

Citations: 6

History

Submitted: 14 March 2019

Revised: 11 October 2019

Accepted: 22 October 2019

Permissions

Information

© 2020 A. Göransson et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2020 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).

We thank the whole EvoVis group (Gustav Bohlin, Ute Harms, Gunnar Höst, Nalle Jonsson, Marta Koc-Januchta, Konrad Schönborn, and Jörgen Stenlund) for valuable support during work on the article. Special thanks are due to Gunnar Höst for valuable discussions on statistics and John Blackwell for language review. We also thank the Swedish Research Council for providing the funds for the research presented in the paper. This work was supported by the Swedish Research Council (VR 2012:5344, LT).