Historical Inquiry

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SCIM-C Historical Inquiry

The SCIM-C historical inquiry strategy is a structured approach to analyzing primary sources. This framework provides scaffolding for students who are learning to think historically. It moves them systematically from observation through analysis to critical evaluation, helping develop the analytical skills essential for historical thinking.

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Research

2025 • Theory & Research in Social Education

Evers, Hicks, Shelburne

Whose historical thinking? Representation of women in the Digital Inquiry Group’s Reading Like a Historian world history curriculum

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2025 • College Teaching

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It’s Time: Evidence-Based Strategies to Improve Student Listening in the College Classroom

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2025 • Theory & Research in Social Education

Allen

Included, But How? A Critical Investigation into Elementary Social Studies Standards about Religion

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2024 • Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Doolittle, Wojdak, Watson, Adams, Mariano

Technology-Focused Multitasking Self-Efficacy and Performance: Whether You Think You Can or Think You Can’t – You Can’t

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2024 • The Social Studies

Allen, Fortune

Interrogating Belief: Linking Religious Instruction and Children's Historical Fiction in Elementary Social Studies

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2023 • Teaching and Learning Inquiry

Doolittle, Wojdak, Walters

Defining Active Learning: A Restricted Systematic Review

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