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Social Studies Pedagogy topics

Enquiry and Empirical Evidence (65)Concept and Nature of Social Science (52)Developing Critical Thinking (51)Project-Based Learning (50)Primary Source (47)Problems of Teaching Social Science (46)Classroom processes, activities and discourse (40)Evaluation in Social Studies (38)

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A primary source is created at what time relative to the events studied?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is a primary source for a historian?Read the answer and worked solution →Another name for a primary source is what?Read the answer and worked solution →Sources that interpret, analyze or comment on primary sources are called what?Read the answer and worked solution →

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A primary source is created at what time relative to the events studied?

  1. At the time under study
  2. Only after scholars review it
  3. During a later reinterpretation
  4. Long after the events ended
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Correct answer: A. At the time under study

A primary source is an original source created at the time under study.

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Which of these is a primary source for a historian?

  1. An encyclopedia overview
  2. A summary written decades later
  3. A scholar's review of past studies
  4. A diary kept during the events
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Correct answer: D. A diary kept during the events

A diary written at the time of the events is an original document, so it is a primary source.

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Another name for a primary source is what?

  1. Indirect source
  2. Tertiary source
  3. Derived source
  4. Original source
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Correct answer: D. Original source

A primary source is also called an original source.

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