Teachers find World History Project overwhelming in their initial adoption year and make substantial modifications across three main categories¶
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q2 i? All interviewed teachers reported the curriculum was overwhelming due to resource abundance; a review of 26 activities confirmed modifications falling under scaffolds, slide decks, and format conversion. → Iwatani 2023
Evidence¶
Iwatani 2023¶
Iwatani, E., Hardy, A., Means, B., Daal, S., & Wei, X. (2023). Evaluation of World History Project. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/199
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Teacher interviews (25 in total, including 6 usability interviews and 2 exit interviews; 13 were analysed for usability) and a purposive review of 26 activities found modifications in three categories: assignment scaffolds, slide decks to motivate and explain, and PDF-to-Word conversion for editability.
"All interviewed teachers reported that they found World History Project to be overwhelming in their initial year of adoption, due to the abundance of available resources. Many also reported that they often felt the need to make substantial modifications to World History Project resources"
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- World History Project does not engage students more than business-as-usual curricula on first implementation, with somewhat negative perception trends — related
- World History Project adoption increases learning opportunities for historical thinking in summative activities relative to business-as-usual curricula — related
- OpenSciEd enactment faces key challenges: project fatigue, unit length and pacing, pseudoagency, and gaps in student sensemaking practices — related
- Low-fidelity prototype evaluation found initial UI options overwhelming and checkbox selections unintuitive — a broader claim this one bears on
- Rubric scoring supports answering diagnostic questions about opportunities for and evidence of historical thinking — related
- Trained scorers applied the historical thinking skills rubrics with good overall inter-rater consistency — related
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Teachers find World History Project overwhelming in their initial adoption year and make substantial modifications across three main categories |
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Teachers find World History Project overwhelming in their initial adoption year and make substantial modifications across three main categories |
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