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Fitchett, Paul G.; Heafner, Tina L.; Lambert, Richard G. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
How and to what extent students learn history content is a complicated process, drawing from the instructional opportunities they experience; the policy prioritization of history/social studies instruction in schools; and their own cultural perspectives toward the past. In an attempt to better understand the complex inter-play among these…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, History Instruction, United States History, Socioeconomic Status
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Avarogullari, Muhammet; Kolcu, Nurten – International Education Studies, 2016
The purpose of this study is to determine how students in a south-western province of Turkey employ historical significance which is one of the second order concepts of historical thinking. 44 11th and 12th grade students participated in the study. They were asked to identify the most significant 10 persons in the history and provide their reasons…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Historical Interpretation, Value Judgment