Exploring patterns of historical thinking through eighth-grade students’ argumentative writing

Building upon research on writing and on students’ development of historical thinking, the current study uses patterns in 427 eighth graders’ writing about sources to assess the sophistication of their historical reasoning. A spectrum is proposed to represent five levels of increasingly sophisticate...

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Main Author: Jeffery D. Nokes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SIG Writing of EARLI 2017-02-01
Series:Journal of Writing Research
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Online Access:http://www.jowr.org/abstracts/vol8_3/Nokes_2017_8_3_abstract.html