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Shaver, James P. – Social Education, 1979
Discusses and explains experimental validity, including both internal and external validity, in terms that a classroom teacher can understand and use in his own research. (CK)
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Research Design
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Baildon, Mark C.; Damico, James – Social Education, 2006
What distinguishes students' sense-making of the past from historians' thinking is that historians know how to determine the validity of competing truth claims, a rather complex intellectual skill that requires a sophisticated set of heuristics and strategies. One way to help students learn how to determine the validity of competing truth claims…
Descriptors: Validity, United States History, Evaluative Thinking, Interpretive Skills