Six historical thinking dimensions — historical argumentation, causation, comparison, contextualization, continuity and change over time, and sourcing — were selected as rubric assessment targets based on convergence across U.S. national frameworks and the WHP course guide¶
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q2 i? The rubric dimensions were chosen by mapping overlap between WHP thinking skills and the National Standards, Common Core, C3 Framework, and AP World History frameworks, yielding six dimensions. → Hardy 2021
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Hardy 2021¶
Hardy, A., Iwatani, E. (2021). Rubrics for examining historical thinking skills in high school world history activities and student work: Construct validity evidence from the literature. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/113
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Documentary design rationale from the report's assessment-target section: the authors compared WHP course-guide skills with four U.S. frameworks and, citing "significant overlap between the categories ofhistorical thinking skills in WHP and skills described in the National Standards/Common Core, C3Framework, and AP World History Framework", selected the six dimensions listed in Table 1.
"Drawing from agreements across frameworks mentioned above, we drafted brief descriptionsfor each of the selected historical thinking practices/skills: historical argumentation, causation,comparison, contextualization, continuity and change over time, and sourcing"
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Related Claims¶
- Empirical progression research is uneven across historical thinking dimensions: most research covers causal reasoning and sourcing, while contextualization and comparison remain thin — related
- Two rubric dimensions (claims and evidence, comparison) showed low inter-scorer consistency in the pilot — related
- The historical thinking rubrics were developed with construct and validity evidence from the literature and teacher/reviewer review — a broader claim this one bears on
- Rubric dimensions were revised in 2023 to sharpen argumentation, contextualization, and Level 1 descriptions — related
- An evaluation of the World History Project detected no statistically significant difference from comparison students in the other five historical thinking skills — related
- World History Project adoption increases learning opportunities for historical thinking in summative activities relative to business-as-usual curricula — related
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Six historical thinking dimensions — historical argumentation, causation, comparison, contextualization, continuity and change over time, and sourcing — were selected as rubric assessment targets based on convergence across U.S. national frameworks and the WHP course guide |
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Six historical thinking dimensions — historical argumentation, causation, comparison, contextualization, continuity and change over time, and sourcing — were selected as rubric assessment targets based on convergence... |
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