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Historical Thinking Skills

Historical thinking skills involve the ability to: 1) Analyze cause-and-effect relationships and distinguish between long-term and short-term causes in a historical context. It also involves recognizing patterns of continuity and change over time. 2) Describe, compare, and evaluate historical developments within and across societies, and identify multiple perspectives on historical experiences. 3) Construct historical arguments supported by relevant evidence, and evaluate the strength of various historical arguments. 4) Analyze and evaluate diverse primary and secondary sources to extract useful information and draw appropriate conclusions about the past. 5) Describe, analyze, and create different interpretations of history using evidence and considering context, perspectives, and frames

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Historical Thinking Skills

Historical thinking skills involve the ability to: 1) Analyze cause-and-effect relationships and distinguish between long-term and short-term causes in a historical context. It also involves recognizing patterns of continuity and change over time. 2) Describe, compare, and evaluate historical developments within and across societies, and identify multiple perspectives on historical experiences. 3) Construct historical arguments supported by relevant evidence, and evaluate the strength of various historical arguments. 4) Analyze and evaluate diverse primary and secondary sources to extract useful information and draw appropriate conclusions about the past. 5) Describe, analyze, and create different interpretations of history using evidence and considering context, perspectives, and frames

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APUSH - Historical Thinking Skills

Skill 1: Chronological Reasoning


Historical causation Historical thinking involves the ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate multiple cause-and-effect relationships in a historical
context, distinguishing between the long-term and proximate.
Patterns of continuity
and change over time
Historical thinking involves the ability to recognize, analyze, and evaluate the dynamics of historical continuity and change over
periods of varying lengths, as well as relating these patterns to larger historical processes or themes.
Periodiation
Historical thinking involves the ability to describe, analyze, evaluate, and construct models of historical periodization that
historians use to categorize events into discrete blocks and to identify turning points, recognizing that the choice of specific dates
favors one narrative, region or group over another narrative, region or group; therefore, changing the periodization can change a
historical narrative. Moreover, the particular circumstances and contexts in which individual historians work and write shape their
interpretations and models of past events.
Skill !: Com"arison and Conte#tualiation
Com"arison
Historical thinking involves the ability to describe, compare, and evaluate, in various chronological and geographical contexts,
multiple historical developments within one society and one or more development across or between different societies.
Historical thinking also involves the ability to identify, compare, and evaluate multiple perspectives on a given historical
experience.
Conte#tualiation Historical thinking involves the ability to connect historical developments to specific circumstances in time and place, and to
broader regional, national or global processes.
Skill $: Crafting Historical Arguments from Historical %vidence
Historical
argumentation
Historical thinking involves the ability to define and frame a uestion about the past and to address that uestion by constructing
an argument. ! plausible and persuasive argument reuires a clear, comprehensive and analytical thesis, supported by relevant
historical evidence " not simply evidence that supports a preferred or preconceived position. !dditionally, argumentation involves
the capacity to describe, analyze, and evaluate the arguments of others in light of available evidence.
A""ro"riate use of
relevant historical
evidence
Historical thinking involves the ability to identify, describe, and evaluate evidence about the past from diverse sources #written
documents, works of art, archaeological artifacts, oral traditions, and other primary sources$, with respect to content, authorship,
purpose, format, and audience.
Historical thinking involves the ability to extract useful information, make supportable inferences, and draw appropriate
conclusions from historical evidence.
Historical thinking involves the ability to understand such evidence in its context, recognize its limitations, and assess the points of
view that it reflects.
Skill &: Historical 'nter"retation and Synthesis
'nter"retation Historical thinking involves the ability to describe, analyze, evaluate, and create diverse interpretations of the past " as revealed
through primary and secondary historical sources " by analyzing evidence, reasoning, contexts, points of view, and frames of
reference.
Synthesis Historical thinking involves the ability to arrive at meaningful and persuasive understandings of the past by applying all the other
historical thinking skills, by drawing appropriately on ideas from different fields of inuiry or disciplines and by creatively fusing
disparate, relevant #and perhaps contradictory$ evidence from primary sources and secondary works. !dditionally, synthesis may
involve applying insights about the past to other historical contexts or circumstances, including the present.
Source: %ollege &oard '!dvances in !() *+,- http-..advancesinap.collegeboard.org.english-history-and-social-science.historical-thinking-skills #!ug. //, /012$

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