In August 2007 the Indiana University History Department will meet in an all-day retreat to share the results to date of this project. Faculty and graduate students will discuss what we have learned, the implications of this work for our curriculum, and directions that we will take in the future.

In the following year we will develop new teaching and assessment strategies to address specific bottlenecks and continue to improve our ability to assess student learning in each of these areas. We have already presented the first stages of our work at the meetings of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Washington, D.C. in November 2006 and in Sidney in July 2007, and we expect this to be followed by a series of papers and articles that track this research as it develops. We hope that this project will culminate in a book that will help define many of the operations required of undergraduates in history courses and tested strategies for helping students master each.