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The Sourcer's Apprentice is a computer-based learning environment that provides high school history students with opportunities to practice document-based reasoning skills. It was developed by Drs. Anne Britt and Charles Perfetti of the University of Pittsburgh's Learning Research and Development Center and it has been used and evaluated in several classroom studies. Sourcer's Apprentice is written in Java and can be run from a web browser.

If you would like to find out more about the Sourcer's Apprentice, begin with the Overview and then take a guided Tour. You will then be ready to try it out!

In the near future we will add material to this site that explains the cognitive design principles that went into building the program, and some scientfic studies of the program's effectiveness. We also plan to provide information for teachers who would like to use Sourcer's Apprentice in their history classroms.

Address comments to: {sourcers+@pitt.edu}.
Material Copyright © 1999 M. Anne Britt