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Standards for Social Studies and Other Disciplines

State and National Standards

State and National Standards: National and state social studies and fine arts standards from the ERIC Social Studies Social Science Clearinghouse: http://www.indiana.edu/~ssdc/stand.htm . DESE has also created an electronic page of links to national standards: http://www.dese.state.mo.us/moheritage/Standards.htm

National Standards

To find national standards for all subjects , including civics, economics, geography, and history (but not social studies), using a single website, see the following website from McREL: http://www.mcrel.org/compendium/browse.asp

Social Studies: Social Studies Standards, which were developed by the National Council for the Social Studies: http://www.ncss.org/standards/toc.html

Following are websites for each of the specific social studies-related standards:

Civics: National Civics Standards developed by the Center for Civic Education: http://www.mcrel.org/compendium/Standard.asp?SubjectID=14

Economics: National Economics Standards developed by the National Council on Economic Education: http://www.economicsamerica.org/standards/index.html and http://www.economicsamerica.org/standards/standards.pdf

For a critique of the economics standards based on religious education lines, see this web site: http://www.edweek.org/ew/vol-18/08nord.h18

Geography: National Geography Standards, which were developed by the Geography Education Standards Project on behalf of the American Geographical Society, the National Council for Geographic Education, the Association of American Geographers, and the National Geographic Society: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/standards/matrix.html .
The standards may also be found on the Missouri Geographic Alliance website: http://www.umsl.edu/~mga/stand.htm
For activities related to the geography standards, see this National Geographic website: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/matrix.html

History: National History Standards, which were developed by the National Center for History in the Schools: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/standards/

Psychology: National Standards for the Teaching of Psychology were developed by the American Psychological Association. These are standards that may be used by high school teachers who teach courses in psychology: http://www.apa.org/ed/hscontents.html

Assessment Related to Standards

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has developed an excellent website with links to social studies-related assessment-related sites: http://www.dese.state.mo.us/moheritage/Assessment.htm

The Issue of Testing, Teaching, and Learning from PBS: The following website explores issues of testing from many perspectives: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/schools/testing/ .

State Standards

Nebraska Social Studies/History Standards : http://www.nde.state.ne.us/ss/pdf/Social_Studies_Standards.pdf

STAR Social Social/History Standards : http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/pdf/STAR_SSHStandards21204.pdf

State Standards: Standards for geography and history by grade levels, which McREL distilled from the standards of five exemplary states using the rule that three of the five states must list the standard to be included in the McREL compendium: http://www.mcrel.org/products/standards/geoghist.pdf

Standards of Other Nations

United Kingdom: Following are websites for national standards in history and geography respectively: http://www.ncaction.org.uk/subjects/history/index.htm and http://www.ncaction.org.uk/subjects/geog/index.htm .

 







 

 

 

 

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