Empirical progression research is uneven across historical thinking dimensions: most research covers causal reasoning and sourcing, while contextualization and comparison remain thin¶
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q2 i? Research-based progression models were located for causation, historical accounts, and continuity and change over time, but not for contextualization or comparison. → 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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The report's literature synthesis states that British work provides the deepest longitudinal evidence for evidence, empathetic explanation, causation, change and development, and historical accounts, and that "research on the dimensions of contextualization and comparison remains quitethin" (van Boxtel & van Drie, 2018).
"by far the most research to date has focused on causalreasoning, while research on the dimensions of contextualization and comparison remains quitethin"
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Related Claims¶
- 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 — related
- British empirical research concluded that students do not naturally progress in historical understanding with age but progress because of targeted instruction designed to support it — related
- Dimensions of historical thinking are conceptually decoupled: sophistication in one second-order concept does not imply sophistication in another — related
- An evaluation of the World History Project detected no statistically significant difference from comparison students in the other five historical thinking skills — related
- Two rubric dimensions (claims and evidence, comparison) showed low inter-scorer consistency in the pilot — related
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Empirical progression research is uneven across historical thinking dimensions: most research covers causal reasoning and sourcing, while contextualization and comparison remain thin |
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Empirical progression research is uneven across historical thinking dimensions: most research covers causal reasoning and sourcing, while contextualization and comparison remain thin |
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