How to Make Use of this Web Site

            This is a prototype of the site that we hope to create, as a means of making the work of the History Learning Project available to a broader audience that will include academic historians, scholars in other disciplines involved in the scholarship of teaching and learning, faculty looking for models for assessment and curriculum mapping, and social studies teachers seeking information about what their students will need to succeed in college history courses.  In addition to the materials already available, it will include many more examples of the specific strategies used to help students get past bottlenecks to learning and to assess that learning, other class materials, and video clips of interviews with historians and history students.

If you are interested in …

The general model of Decoding the Discipline

… go to “Making Thinking Explicit: Decoding History Teaching,” an article originally printed in The National Teaching and Learning Forum or any of the works in the bibliography

An example of the implementation of the seven steps of Decoding the Disciplines in a history course

An Example of the Decoding Process

An overview of how the operations required in college history courses can be mapped onto a  four-year curriculum

Curriculum Overview

Examples of assessments developed through the Decoding process

Return to the Home Page -- Click on the Curriculum and Assessment Tab -- Objectives and Assessment -- Pick one of the seven types of bottlenecks -- Match the Operations required in History Courses with the Assessments that

A list of the general areas in which bottlenecks to learning were identified in our interviews with historians

Identifying bottlenecks to learning in History courses

More information about the History Learning Project itself

What is the HLP? , History of the HLP

More Information about the Indiana University Freshman Learning Project, the program in which Decoding the Disciplines was developed

The Freshman Learning Project