Assessing Historical Thinking

Ercikan and Seixas are currently editing an international collection of chapters on assessing historical thinking (Routledge, 2015), with contributions from the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany.  Despite differing national contexts, common challenges have emerged across the studies, as various jurisdictions attempt to move beyond the simple testing of factual recall. Their paper discusses several approaches to these challenges, setting the demands of the Common Core State Standards in international context.