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Assessments And Accommodations For English Language Learners: A Literature Review, Heidi Jo Bartlett
Assessments And Accommodations For English Language Learners: A Literature Review, Heidi Jo Bartlett
The Nebraska Educator: A Student-Led Journal
While research in how English language learners (ELLs) use assessment accommodations is lacking, there are some general conclusions that one can draw. First, teachers must know their students’ abilities. This includes knowledge of their English proficiency, knowledge of their first language skills, especially as it pertains to literacy skills, and knowledge of their content area understanding. If teachers are aware of areas of weakness in students’ assessments, they should work to compensate for them by either changing their instruction or providing assessment accommodations. Second, it is important for teachers to recognize the various types of assessment accommodations that are available …
Difficulty And Distance In Educational Encounters With Historical Violence, Grant Scribner
Difficulty And Distance In Educational Encounters With Historical Violence, Grant Scribner
The Nebraska Educator: A Student-Led Journal
This article reviews recent literature that addresses historical violence, difficult history, and the production of historical distance in teaching and learning about past violence. The author argues that based on the literature, the processes by which certain violent histories become “difficult” while others are aestheticized deserve greater attention. As violent histories become more or less difficult, the production of nuanced, contextually contingent historical distances may have serious implications for teachers’ pedagogical decisions as well as students’ reactions and understanding. The author argues further that historical violence not considered difficult or traumatic in a given moment and context deserves greater attention …
The Current State Of Assessing Historical Thinking: A Literature Analysis, Taylor S. Hamblin
The Current State Of Assessing Historical Thinking: A Literature Analysis, Taylor S. Hamblin
The Nebraska Educator: A Student-Led Journal
In American schools since the mid 2000’s, social studies departments and state departments of education have created goals and updated standards prioritizing critical thinking engagement. Promotion of critical thinking has created a wealth of scholarship on developing a specific type of critical thinking, or cognition, called historical thinking. Imperative to the promotion of teaching historical thinking is in how teachers can assess the inquiries that make it up. Unfortunately, standardized social studies assessments have failed to measure the acquisition of the new historical thinking standards. In order to improve the assessment practices of history teachers, I wish to do two …