Assessing Historical Thinking and Understanding: Innovative Designs for New Standards

Author:   Bruce A. VanSledright (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415836982


Pages:   144
Publication Date:   07 August 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Assessing Historical Thinking and Understanding: Innovative Designs for New Standards


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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 cannot fully assess what the student knows. Rather, he points forward along a path toward changes in learning, teaching, and assessing that closely aligns with the Common Core State Standards. He delves into the types of history knowledge the standards require, illustrates how they can be applied in-use in history learning contexts, and theorizes how the standards might fit together cognitively to produce deep historical understandings among students in teaching-learning contexts. By providing a variety of assessment strategies and items that align with the standards, and identifying rich, useful assessment rubrics applicable to the different types of assessments, he offers an important resource for social studies teachers and curriculum writers alike.

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Author:   Bruce A. VanSledright (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.136kg
ISBN:  

9780415836982


ISBN 10:   0415836980
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   07 August 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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"""Every teacher could benefit from reading this text, they would especially benefit from reading the learning experiences. Teaching Global History should be required reading for all social studies professionals."" Amy J. Good, Teacher's College Record"


Every teacher could benefit from reading this text, they would especially benefit from reading the learning experiences. Teaching Global History should be required reading for all social studies professionals. Amy J. Good, Teacher's College Record


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Bruce VanSledright is Professor of History and Social Studies Education at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA.

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