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How Finnish Adolescents Understand History: Disciplinary Thinking in History and Its Assessment Among 16-Year-Old Finns

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dc.creator Jukka Rantala
dc.date 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-08-12T11:18:53Z
dc.date.available 2015-08-12T11:18:53Z
dc.identifier 10.3390/educsci2040193
dc.identifier 2227-7102
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/9a60f76d6cc849abae087df66cc6a9da
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/27210
dc.description The success of discipline-based teaching requires an interplay between substantive and procedural knowledge. In Finland, disciplinary thinking was included in the National Core Curriculum and in the final assessment criteria a decade ago, which meant a change in history teaching. The outcome of this change is examined in the article with the help of a national-level history test that was conducted in 2011 among 16-year-old Finns. In the test, the adolescents fared moderately well in tasks involving substantive knowledge but more poorly in tasks which measured the mastering of procedural knowledge. In particular, the interplay between these proved to be difficult for the students. The students’ knowledge was found to correspond with the earlier curriculum rather than the objectives of the present one, revealing that not all of the teachers were teaching in accordance with the present demands.
dc.language English
dc.relation http://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/2/4/193
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/2227-7102
dc.rights CC BY
dc.source Education Sciences, Vol 2, Iss 4, Pp 193-207 (2012)
dc.subject history teaching
dc.subject historical thinking
dc.subject disciplinary thinking
dc.subject procedural knowledge
dc.subject substantive knowledge
dc.subject evaluation
dc.subject Finland
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.title How Finnish Adolescents Understand History: Disciplinary Thinking in History and Its Assessment Among 16-Year-Old Finns
dc.type article


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