Formative Assessment Design 2.0: Building Students Toward a Better DBQ by Focusing on Image Analysis
Context and Purpose As I’ve written before, Document Based Question (DBQ) is critical for the Social Science student and provides the ultimate application of historical thinking and reasoning. It requires that students read various sources and understand them such that they can cobble together enough information from multiple sources to respond to a question. Ultimately, […]
Read MoreEffectively Teaching Critical Thinking through Document Analysis: Formative Assessment, Backward Design, and the DBQ
The Document Based Question or DBQ is not often used in the average Social Science and History classroom. Advanced Placement (AP) classes use them as part of the learning and assessment process to prepare students for the AP Exam. Nevertheless, the average student and curriculum ought to use more DBQs however challenging they may be. […]
Read More6 REASONS WHY SOCIAL SCIENCE CLASSES NEED TO “MAKE”
Making is deep in our DNA. Indeed, is not the process of making, playing, and improving something how we naturally learn? My first encounter with a hammer and nails, a rope and make-shift pulley system came to us while creating a fort high in an olive tree grove next to our house. Through trial and […]
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