We hope you found the Assessing Historical Thinking Live Discussion to be an engaging conversation. How can you extend this discussion to help other teachers with assessing historical thinking? Post your comments and questions below.
We hope you found the Assessing Historical Thinking Live Discussion to be an engaging conversation. How can you extend this discussion to help other teachers with assessing historical thinking? Post your comments and questions below.
Now that our PLC has developed inquiry-based units of study for US History in Grade 8, I think the next logical step is to evaluate our formative & summative assessments (including supports & rubrics)…
I am wondering how many people use Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment as a research base for the development of assessments? Is this something that folks were…
At times I feel constrained on how to assess historical thinking because I want to ensure that students are able to do well on their SOL end of year testing, which is heavily based on factual knowledge…
Now that our PLC has developed inquiry-based units of study for US History in Grade 8, I think the next logical step is to evaluate our formative & summative assessments (including supports & rubrics) to look for ways we can include students in the process, as well as considering how we make their thinking more visible. I'll recommend we look at either of these two books and do a book club as we work through the evaluation of assessments:
I wonder if there are other books that you might recommend we consider?
Now that our PLC has developed inquiry-based units of study for US History in Grade 8, I think the next logical step is to evaluate our formative & summative assessments (including supports & rubrics) to look for ways we can include students in the process, as well as considering how we make their thinking more visible. I'll recommend we look at either of these two books and do a book club as we work through the evaluation of assessments:
I wonder if there are other books that you might recommend we consider?
Van Sledright's book is great (it is also super expensive, sadly) because he also provides rubrics for the assessments he discusses.
Hi Nisse!
I love the idea of writing "what if essays". Using those in the classroom would really get students to interact with the content and test out those historical thinking skills, while also getting them to use their critical thinking skills. Love that!