Measuring history : cases of state-level testing across the United States

Measuring History complements the cases presented in Wise Social Studies Practices (Yeager & Davis, 2005). Yeager and Davis highlight the rich and ambitious teaching that can occur in the broad context of state-level testing. In this book, the chapter authors and I bring the particular state his...

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Other Authors Grant, S. G. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Pub., [2006]
SeriesResearch in curriculum and instruction.
Subjects
History > Study and teaching.
Achievement tests > United States > States.
Education > Testing & Measurement.
Teaching of a specific subject.
Education: examinations and assessment.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781918116038
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-540-0
Physical Description1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • The state of state-level history tests / S. G. Grant and Catherine Horn
  • Research on history tests / S. G. Grant
  • The technical realities of measuring history / Catherine Horn
  • Paradox of practice / Letitia Fickel
  • Teaching history in the age of accountability / Davner Segal
  • Using primary documents with fourth-grade students / Jane Bolgatz
  • Teaching in spite of, rather than because of, the test / Jill Gradwell
  • Teaching in a high-stakes testing setting / Cinthia Salinas
  • Teaching history in the Old Dominon / Stephanie van Hover
  • Negotiating control and protecting the private / Ann Marie Smith
  • "Does anybody really understand this test?" / Elizabeth Anne Yeager and Matthew Pinder
  • The impact of a high school graduation examination on Mississippi social studies teachers' instructional practices / Kenneth Vogler
  • Measuring history through state-level tests / S. G. Grant
  • The future of high-stakes history assessment / William Gaudelli.

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