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End date: 1969 × Start date: 1965 × Subject: Study and teaching (Primary) ×

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    The teaching of history in state-supported elementary schools in Victoria, 1852-1954
    Trethewey, Alan Robert ( 1965)
    The major concern of this thesis, then, is to trace and account for the introduction of History as a subject in 1886, to show its development in an initial period of transition as the implications of the new subject were explored, to follow it through the years of the "New Education" to the time when it became an established and accepted subject, changing little, to examine a period of exciting rediscovery and revision in the early 1930's, and finally, after another twenty years of relative but deceptive calm,to describe the changes which led to the introduction of Social Studies at the expense of History, Geography and Civics in 1954.
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    The development of tests for the measurement of cognitive objectives in social studies at the upper primary level
    Allen, Graham J ( 1966)
    The evolution of the school subject Social Studies in Victoria and in the United States of America is traced briefly, and an examination is made of educational objectives which are appropriate to such a subject. Tests are developed to measure achievement of cognitive objectives, encompassing areas named as Knowledge of Terminology in Social Studies, Knowledge of Generalizations in Social Studies, Comprehension in Social Studies, and Reasoning in Social Studies. The final forms of the tests are administered to 287 upper primary school children and descriptive statistics are computed from the results. Factor analysis is applied to the intercorrelations among scores on selected groups of items from the Social Studies tests and a number of marker variables. The sources of variance contributing to scores on the Social Studies tests are examined and some implications are drawn for measurement of cognitive objectives in Social Studies.