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ERIC Number: EJ487225
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0037-7996
What Does a Historian Do? Middle School Students Present Their Views.
Swartz, Avonna
Social Studies, v85 n3 p114-16 May-Jun 1994
Asserts that increasing numbers of history teachers design courses to have students use historical research and processing skills. Reports on a study of 120 middle school students about their perceptions of what historians do. Concludes that the study provided teachers a means of assessing student understanding of historians. (CFR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Strategies, Historians, History, History Instruction, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools, Primary Sources, Skill Development, Social Science Research, Social Scientists, Social Studies, Student Attitudes, Textbook Content
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Researchers; Practitioners
Language: English
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