Abstract

Every discipline has a limited number of fundamental concepts. Discipline experts will identify some of these as threshold concepts. An understanding of threshold concepts is expected to provide an insight into the discipline and enhance learning and understanding. In this paper I will investigate threshold concepts for first-year business statistics, which is a compulsory unit for all business majors in the School of Business at The University of Western Australia. The investigation will be based on analysis of examination scripts. As this is an initial investigation, I will focus on identifying threshold concepts in one topic only.