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- Title
Methods Mystery Boxes: Scaffolded Learning in Historical Research Methods Courses.
- Authors
Gossard, Julia M.
- Abstract
The author explains how she used backwards design to structure her History Research Methods course and how she prepared her students for their mini-capstone paper by scaffolding assignments during the semester. Topics include details of the resulting Methods Mystery Box assignment, other approaches to teaching an undergraduate historical research methods course and the advantages to the proposal assignment in History Research Methods such as allowing students to breakdown the research process.
- Subjects
HISTORY education; HISTORICAL research; RESEARCH methodology; SCAFFOLDED instruction; STUDENT assignments
- Publication
History Teacher, 2023, Vol 56, Issue 4, p549
- ISSN
0018-2745
- Publication type
Article