Nambiar, Jayashree
(2008)
Beyond retention:
Meaningful assessment in social science.
Learning Curve (15).
pp. 116-110.
Abstract
The weakness in the teaching of social science in school
lies in assessment. The assessments today often are
an evaluation of the student’s ability to retain and
recall information - names and dates, given characteristics
of a period, causes of an event, incidents in the event itself and the results of an event all of which have been listed in the textbook. In this article I will explore what we need to assess in social science and how we need to do it using the teaching-learning of history. I choose history because I am familiar with it. I choose it also because the teaching and learning of history seems to have little to do with the practical and the everyday.
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