Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Miller, Grant R

Titel

Engaging diverse learners in historical thinking

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Link zum Volltext

• ProQuest

Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In an environment of standardized testing that emphasizes the mere memorization of facts, a relatively recent development in educational research is instruction that focuses on doing the discipline. This approach in history education is often called historical thinking or Doing History and requires students to develop the skills historians use to construct an interpretation about the past from multiple and conflicting sources. This dissertation explored the impact three Doing History intervention units had on tenth-grade students' abilities to engage in historical thinking. Two of these units incorporated the use of Think Like a Historian, a multimedia computer program that implements the three principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to scaffold students' historical thinking so that they are able to evaluate, corroborate, and synthesize primary sources. The results of this mixed-methods study were used to analyze the computer program's impact on facilitating historical thinking for high school students with diverse learning needs.