Personal Details: Martin, Daisy

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Daisy Martin, PhD, is the director of history performance assessment at the “Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity”. The former director of history education at “http://teachinghistory.org”, she also cofounded the “Stanford History Education Group” (SHEG) and coauthored the award-winning book, “Reading Like a Historian: Teaching Literacy in Middle and High School Classrooms” (2nd edition, 2012), and website “Historical Thinking Matters”. Martin is a former high school teacher who holds a doctorate from Stanford University and now teaches teacher-candidates. Her research interests focus on the teaching and learning of historical thinking and include how open educational resources, teacher education, and performance assessment facilitate that focus.

Daisy Martin, Dr. phil., ist die Leiterin des Bereichs Geschichte am “Zentrum für Bewertung, Lernen und Gerechtigkeit” der Stanford Universität. Die frühere Leiterin für Geschichtsdidaktik bei “Teachinghistory.org” hat auch die “Standford History Education Group” (SHEG) mitgegründet. Sie ist Coautorin des preisgekrönten Buches “Reading Like a Historian: Teaching Literacy in Middleand High School Classrooms” (2. Aufl. 2012) und auch des Websites “Historical Thinking Matters”. Martin ist eine frühere Gymnasiallehrerin, die an der Stanford Universität promoviert wurde und jetzt in der Lehrerbildung tätig ist. Ihre Forschungsinteressen liegen v.a. im Bereich des Lehrens und Lernens des geschichtsbezogenen Denkens sowie der Entwicklung von OER, der Lehrerbildung und schließlich der Qualitätsentwicklung bei der Leistungsbeurteilung.

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    Politicizing AP U.S. History? (APUSH)
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