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  1. May 2017
    1. question

      It may be worth reiterating something here about positionality to a source? That strikes me as one of the aspects that beginning students are often confused about--that something could be considered either a primary or a secondary source, depending on your research question.

    2. additional tools developed specifically to provide access to primary sources.

      Is there any need for training in tools on sharing that material back out (for example, their research product)?

    3. may be applied differently in different contexts

      I think this language could even be strengthened, as you know that it will be applied differently in different contexts, because individual context will always influence how people interpret these kinds of documents.

    4. Furthermore, instructors who are teaching these skills may be simultaneously concerned with conveying the excitement of research with primary sources, or giving students a memorable or transformative experience while using such sources. Although important goals, these are abstract qualities that resist assessment and are not explicitly covered as part of these guidelines.

      I would suggest some wording here like, "we acknowledge that teaching with primary sources also often includes affective outcomes, such as conveying excitement..." I also could imagine that you might get push back on the phrasing about these qualities resisting assessment--there is literature on assessing engagement or interest, so that phrasing is not precisely true. I'm not sure what to suggest as an alternative, though I think you could say something about it being challenging to assess especially in a limited time frame. Or perhaps just own that those outcomes aren't what you are dealing with here, because those issues aren't unique to primary source literacy...