Assessing 21st Century Skills with Library of Congress Documents.
1) Multiple-choice questions teach kids:
- they can be right for the wrong reasons.
- to skip hard problems after 10 seconds.
- if in doubt, choose C.
- all of the above.
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This assessment measures students’ ability to contextualize two historical documents and place them in the correct chronological order. Document A is...
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This exercise measures sourcing and contextualization. Students read a letter from a Kansas housewife to Thomas Edison. Students then select two...
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This assessment asks students to source and corroborate a letter from a Union soldier describing low morale among Union soldiers after the Battle of...
