Workshop Five: Using Primary Sources to Assess Student Understanding
Understanding Goal 
How do primary sources challenge and inspire our memory, reason, and imagination?
Knowledge
- Primary sources are an integral part of student learning experiences.
- Learning goals, activities, and primary sources are interdependent.
- Primary sources are used within a historical context.
Skills
- Analyze what kind of student understanding a primary source learning activity reveals.
- Analyze Learning Experience ideas in terms of established criteria.
Assessment
- Open Lab Checklist
- Evaluation of Learning Experiences conducted by self, peers and instructors. Self-evaluation of growth in ability to use the Library of Congress Web site.
Investigative Question 
How can primary sources be used as assessment tools to both reveal and further student understanding?
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- Model Activities
- "Where are you as a Library of Congress Patron?"
- "How Primary Sources Challenge Student Understanding"
Analyze Model Activity:
- Best Instructional Practices in Workshop Five
- Learning process using primary sources
- Knowledge gained about the Library of Congress
- PrimarySourceLearning.org resources: Browse student projects
- Search Strategy
- Individualized search questions and answers
- Citing Sources
Performance tasks
- Locate items on the Library of Congress Web site using personalized search strategies.
- Patron Actions
What is your purpose for visiting the Library of Congress today?
- Visitor - Complete Library of Congress research needed for Learning Experience(s).
- Researcher - Complete Library of Congress research needed for Learning Experience(s).
- Docent - Complete Library of Congress research needed for Learning Experience(s).
Performance tasks
- Create primary source-based Learning Experience(s) for students reflecting the Collection criteria.
- Exit Card
- Follow-up Activity