Exploring Historical Illiteracy.

Furr, L. Allen

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ERIC Number: EJ459213

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Publication Date: 1992

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Exploring Historical Illiteracy.

Furr, L. Allen

Reading Improvement, v29 n1 p58-64 Spr 1992

Finds that powerlessness, social isolation, dogmatic nationalism, age, and gender significantly predict historical illiteracy (unfamiliarity with historical facts) and that a completed college history course reduced the effects of the predicting factors. (SR)

Descriptors: Educational Research, Higher Education, History, History Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Predictor Variables, Prior Learning, Socioeconomic Influences

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Language: English

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