1st Edition
Assessing Historical Thinking and Understanding Innovative Designs for New Standards
By Bruce A. VanSledright
Copyright 2014
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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Assessing Historical Thinking and Understanding advocates for a fundamental change in how educators think about making sense of learners’ developing cognition and understanding in history. Author Bruce VanSledright argues that traditional and typical standardized testing approaches are seldom up to the task of measuring the more complex understandings students are asked to attain, as they... Read more
Chapter 1: The Need for New Assessments in History Education
Chapter 2: A Sociocultural Cognitive Model for Learning History
Chapter 3: Mapping Assessment Tasks to the Learning Model
Chapter 4: Interpreting Assessment Tasks
Chapter 5: Standards, Assessments, Testing, and Questions of Alignment
Appendix
Biography
Bruce VanSledright is Professor of History and Social Studies Education at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA.
