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Pickles, Elisabeth – Teaching History, 2011
Drawing on her research into students' evidential reasoning, Elisabeth Pickles explores the possibilities for how such reasoning might be assessed. Existing exam mark schemes focus too heavily on generic processes involved in the analysis of source material and insufficiently on the historical validity of reasoning and conclusions produced.…
Descriptors: Historiography, Evidence, Abstract Reasoning, Thinking Skills
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Milner, Joseph O.; Ferran, Joan E.; Martin, Katharine Y. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2003
No Child Left Behind legislation makes it clear that outside evaluators determine what gets taught in the classroom. It is important to ensure they measure what truly counts in school. This fact is poignantly and sadly true for the under funded, poorly resourced, "low performing" schools that may be hammered by administration accountants…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Special Schools, Residential Programs, Instruction