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Enhancing Students' Critical Thinking Through Documents-Based Study

Explore the development of critical thinking in students through documents-based study, focusing on key syllabus objectives, learning outcomes, and terms. Learn how to ask relevant questions of historical sources and assess critical thinking skills. Access exemplar questions and marking schemes for the documents-based question format.

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Enhancing Students' Critical Thinking Through Documents-Based Study

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  1. History Developing students’ critical thinking skills through the documents-based study http://pdst.ie/postprimary

  2. The documents-based study • Key syllabus objectives • Key learning outcomes • Key terms

  3. The documents-based study • Developing students’ historical literacy • Terms used in the syllabus objectives and learning outcomes • Terms that may be used in documents-based questions

  4. Thinking critically: learning to ask relevant questions of sources • What type of source is the document? • Who produced the document? • Why was this document produced? • In what circumstances was this document produced? • When was this document produced? • What can this document tell me? What questions can it answer/not answer?

  5. Thinking critically: learning to ask relevant questions of sources

  6. A card-sorting, critical skills activity • Rationale • What is involved

  7. Assessing students’ critical thinking skills: the documents-based question Format and question styles • Comprehension • Comparison • Criticism • Contextualisation

  8. The documents-based question, 2014-2015 Prescribed topic: The pursuit of sovereignty and the impact of partition, 1912-1949 Exemplar questions (HL and OL) • The Treaty negotiations, October-December, 1921 • Belfast during World War II • The Eucharistic Congress, 1932

  9. Belfast during World War II http://www.secondworldwarni.org/associatedImage.aspx?pagerecordid=146

  10. The documents-based question Some comments from the Chief Examiner’s Report, 2011 • Lack of familiarity with vocabulary used • Failure to adequately refer to both documents, where required • Students jumping to conclusions about bias

  11. The documents-based question Marking scheme 2011 • Comments on work of journalists as primary source material • Marking indicators, Higher Level • Marking indicators, Ordinary Level

  12. Developing students’ historical literacy • Helpful words and phrases • Using writing frames to develop students’ historical writing skills

  13. Developing students’ historical literacy • A card-sorting exercise to help students structure an answer to an historical question • ‘Big points’ and ‘little points’

  14. History http://pdst.ie/postprimary

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