History SoTL Resources

 Articles, Essays, and Books (Most Recent First) 

• Joel Sipress and David Voelker, "The End of the History Survey Course: The Rise and Fall of the Coverage Model," Journal of American History 97 (March 2011): 1050-1066.
• Joel Sipress and David Voelker, "From Learning History to Doing History," in Exploring Signature Pedagogies: Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind, pp. 19-35, edited by Regan Gurung, Nancy Chick, and Aeron Haynie (Stylus, 2008).
• David Voelker, "Assessing Student Understanding in Introductory Courses: A Sample Strategy," The History Teacher 41 (Aug. 2008).  (This article outlines my "For and Against" assessment strategy.")
• Lendol Calder, "Uncoverage: Toward a Signature Pedagogy for the History Survey," Journal of American History (2006).
• David Pace, "The Amateur in the Operating Room: History and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning," American Historical Review 109 (October 2004).
• Joel Sipress, "Why Students Don't Get Evidence and What We Can Do About It," The History Teacher 37 (May 2004).
• Sam Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past (Temple Univ. Press, 2001).

My SoTL Research Materials

• Coding Rubric for my current SoTL project, "Understanding Historical Thinking"

My Argument-Based Introductory History Course

• Fall 2012 Syllabus for "U.S. History from 1600-1865: Interpreting Early America: Myth and History" (The syllabus does not show daily assignments but does outline three question-driven units and also shows importance of historical debate and argument to the course.)
• More coming soon!

Internet Resources

• Stanford History Education Group (SHEG)
• Beyond the Bubble: A New Generation of History Assessments (from SHEG)
• HistorySOTL (The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History)