High-school students do not spontaneously use contextualization, sourcing, and corroboration heuristics when reading documents¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Wineburg's comparison of eight historians and eight high-school students reasoning about primary sources identified three heuristics (contextualization, sourcing, corroboration) and suggests that high-school students do not spontaneously use them. → Jannet van Drie & Carla van Boxtel 2008

Evidence¶

Jannet van Drie & Carla van Boxtel 2008¶

Jannet van Drie & Carla van Boxtel. (2008). Historical Reasoning: Towards a Framework for Analyzing Students' Reasoning about the Past. Educ Psychol Rev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-007-9056-1

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The review reports Wineburg's (1991a) thinking-aloud study of "eight historians and eight high-school students", from which the heuristics of contextualization, sourcing, and corroboration were identified. The review attributes the finding to Wineburg; the review itself concludes students do not spontaneously use these heuristics.

"In an earlier study he compared how eight historians and eight high-school students reasoned about several primary sources (Wineburg 1991a). From the thinking-aloud protocols three heuristics related to the study of historical documents were identified"

Discussion¶

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