"I was pleased to get a note from Sam Wineburg, the director of the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG), unveiling his new project: Beyond the Bubble. Beyond the Bubble is a collection of short, formative assessments that require students to examine and interpret a wide variety of historical documents. Students engage with a digital primary source from the extensive collections of the Library of Congress, and then compose a brief constructed response designed to elicit evidence of students' specific historical thinking skills.
Wineburg's team has a lovely introduction to their project that expresses one of the key dilemmas of assessment, specific to history education but germane to all K-12 subjects:"
I was pleased to get a note from Sam Wineburg, the director of the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG), unveiling his new project: Beyond the Bubble. Beyond the Bubble is a collection of short, formative assessments that require students to examine and interpret a wide variety of historical documents. Students engage with a digital primary source from the extensive collections of the Library of Congress, and then compose a brief constructed response designed to elicit evidence of students' specific historical thinking skills.
Wineburg's team has a lovely introduction to their project that expresses one of the key dilemmas of assessment, specific to history education but germane to all K-12 subjects:
"On November 29, 2012, the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) released preliminary test blueprints for their summative assessments. While it may be true that only educational assessment geeks (guilty as charged!) get excited about test blueprints, anyone who is concerned about Common Core assessments should be interested, as the test blueprints contain valuable information about how assessments will be shaped.
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