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Direct linkMichael John Bolz – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Research examining students' historical reasoning has heavily relied on evidence in the form of students' written work to make claims about students' ability to reason historically and have argued that the document-based history essay holds the most promise for assessing students' historical thinking (Nokes & De La Paz, 2018). However,…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, History Instruction, Writing (Composition), Student Evaluation
Clark, Tammy Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Historical thinking is an integral part of understanding and doing history, as well as a good example of the kind of critical thinking necessary in today's society. This study, conducted in two phases, investigated ways in which students are brought to this higher level of thinking in the social studies classroom. Data collection occurred…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Epistemology, Critical Thinking, Middle School Students
Wissinger, Daniel R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of Walton, Reed, and Macagno's (2008) dialectical framework on middle school students' historical discussions and written arguments. To do this,151 middle school students from six classrooms were randomly assigned to one of two conditions and asked to participate in a three-week…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Middle School Students, Intervention, Control Groups
Paska, Lawrence M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This quasi-experimental study uses mixed methodologies to examine learning engagement on a social studies unit test based on primary and secondary sources (a "document-based question", or DBQ), to determine whether the use of film in a DBQ changes the nature of historical inquiry. The study was conducted in two Grade 7 classes taught by the same…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Middle School Students, Grade 7, History Instruction
Brooks, Sarah – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This case study examined the place that perspective recognition and care as components of historical empathy occupy in one history teacher's purpose, instruction, and students' response. Abigail, a high school history teacher, and four tenth grade students from one section of her Advanced Placement European History course participated in this…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, European History, Advanced Placement, Primary Sources
Manderino, Michael L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Building on previous studies of multiple text reading in history, this study aimed to contribute to that body of work by focusing on non-traditional multimodal sources. In an age of rapidly increasing access to and use of multimodal sources and a demand for reading and comprehending increasingly complex and specialized texts, it appeared there was…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Mixed Methods Research, Learning Modalities, Persuasive Discourse
