New directions in assessing historical thinking /
Even as more school districts adopt history curricula that specify historical thinking as a goal, valid assessments of historical thinking remain elusive, and exams continue to focus on measures of factual knowledge or generic reading and writing skills. This edited collection addresses the new land...
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New York :
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2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the new shape of history assessments / Peter Seixas and Kadriye Ercikan
- Historical consciousness in Germany : concept, implementation, assessment / Carlos Kölbl and Lisa Konrad
- The difficulty of assessing disciplinary historical reading / Abby Reisman
- Heritage as a resource for enhancing and assessing historical thinking : reflections from the Netherlands / Carla van Boxtel, Maria Grever, and Stephan Klein
- Relating historical consciousness to historical thinking through assessment / Catherine Duquette
- Commentary : into the swampy lowlands of important problems / Robert B. Bain
- Assessing for learning in the history classroom / Bruce VanSledright
- Historical thinking, competencies and their measurement : challenges and approaches / Andreas Körber and Johannes Meyer-Hamme
- A design process for assessing historical thinking : the case of a one-hour test / Peter Seixas, Lindsay Gibson and Kadriye Ercikan
- Material-based and open-ended writing tasks for assessing narrative competence among students / Monika Waldis, Jan Hodel, Holger Thünemann, Meik Zülsdorf-Kersting, and Béatrice Ziegler
- Commentary : historical thinking : in search of conceptual and practical guidance for the design and use of assessments of student competence / Josh Radinsky, Susan R. Goldman, and James W. Pellegrino
- A large-scale assessment of historical knowledge and reasoning : NAEP U.S. history assessment / Stephen Lazer
- Assessing historical thinking in the redesigned advanced placement United States history course and exam / Lawrence G. Charap
- Historical consciousness and historical thinking reflected in large-scale assessment in Sweden / Per Eliasson, Fredrik Alvén, Cecilia Axelsson Yngvéus, and David Rosenlund
- Commentary : assessment of historical thinking in practice / Susan M. Brookhart
- The importance of construct validity evidence in history assessment : what is often overlooked or misunderstood? / Pamela Kaliski, Kara Smith, and Kristen Huff
- Cognitive validity evidence for validating assessments of historical thinking / Kadriye Ercikan, Peter Seixas, Juliette Lyons-Thomas, and Lindsay Gibson
- Measuring up? : multiple-choice questions / Gabriel A. Reich
- History assessments of thinking : an investigation of cognitive validity / Mark Smith and Joel Breakstone
- Commentary : the validity of historical thinking assessments : a commentary / Denis Shemilt.