New Directions in Assessing Historical Thinking
Kadri Ercikan Alper
New technologies have radically transformed our relationship to information in general and to little bits of information in particular. The assessment of history learning, which for a century has valued those little bits as the centerpiece of its practice, now faces not only an unprecedented glut but a disconnect with what is valued in history education. More complex processes—historical thinking, historical consciousness or historical sense making—demand more complex assessments. At the same time, advances in scholarship on assessment open up new possibilities.
For this volume, Kadriye Ercikan and Peter Seixas have assembled an international array of experts who have, collectively, ... Read more
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