Different views of history affect how teachers teach history. For example,
Wilson and Wineburg (1993) asked two teachers of American history
to read a set of student essays on the causes of the American Revolution not
as an unbiased or complete and definitive accounts of people and events,
but to develop plans for the students’ “remediation or enrichment.” Teachers
were provided with a set of essays on the question, “Evaluate the causes
of the American Revolution,” written by eleventh-graders for a timed, 45-
minute test. Consider the different types of feedback that Mr. Barnes and
Ms. Kelsey gave a student paper;