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Download full textter Beek, Marlies; Opdenakker, Marie-Christine; Deunk, Marjolein I.; Strijbos, Jan-Willem; Huijgen, Tim – History Education Research Journal, 2022
The ability to apply various reading skills is an important prerequisite to comprehend expository texts commonly found in history textbooks, but it is unclear which specific skills contribute to students' historical content knowledge and historical reasoning abilities. This study used a digital learning environment (DLE) to measure and support…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Content Area Reading, Reading Skills
Direct linkHuijgen, Tim; Holthuis, Paul; van Boxtel, Carla; van de Grift, Wim – Educational Studies, 2019
The aim of this observational study is to explore how history teachers promote historical contextualisation in their lessons. Historical contextualisation is the ability to situate phenomena and individuals' actions in the context of time, historical location, long-term developments, or specific events to give meaning to these phenomena and…
Descriptors: History, History Instruction, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Huijgen, Tim; Holthuis, Paul; van Boxtel, Carla; van De Grift, Wim; Suhre, Cor – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2019
This exploratory study presents an example of how a historical contextualization framework can be used to develop and implement a lesson unit on Cold War events. The effects of the lesson unit on students' ability to perform historical contextualization are explored in a quasi-experimental pre-test--post-test design with an experimental (n = 96)…
Descriptors: War, Units of Study, Pretests Posttests, Comparative Analysis
de Leur, Tessa; van Boxtel, Carla; Huijgen, Tim – History Education Research Journal, 2021
Imagining what it was like to live in the past may help secondary school students to understand historical developments and situations. In this case study, the opportunities of a drama task are explored by using a mixed-method approach. In small groups, Dutch 14-15-year-old students examined historical sources and produced a short film clip on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Group Discussion, Films
Huijgen, Tim; van Boxtel, Carla; van de Grift, Wim; Holthuis, Paul – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2017
An important goal of history education is to promote the student's ability to perform historical perspective taking (HPT). HPT refers to the ability to understand how people in the past viewed their world at various times and in various places to explain why they did what they did. In this study, we assessed a sample of 15- and 16-year-old…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, History Instruction, Logical Thinking, Mixed Methods Research
Huijgen, Tim; van de Grift, Wim; van Boxtel, Carla; Holthuis, Paul – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2017
Since the 1970s, many observation instruments have been constructed to map teachers' general pedagogic competencies. However, few of these instruments focus on teachers' subject-specific competencies. This study presents the development of the "Framework for Analyzing the Teaching of Historical Contextualization" (FAT-HC). This…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), History Instruction, Teacher Competencies, Content Validity
Huijgen, Tim; van de Grift, Wim; van Boxtel, Carla; Holthuis, Paul – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2018
The aim of this explorative study was to develop and test a pedagogy aimed at promoting students' ability to perform historical contextualization. Teaching historical contextualization was conceptualized in terms of four pedagogical design principles: (1) making students aware of the consequences of a present-oriented perspective when examining…
Descriptors: Design Requirements, Pretests Posttests, History Instruction, Curriculum Development
