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What is the average length of stay per arrival for domestic tourists in Bled in 2019?
What is the average length of stay per arrival for domestic tourists in Bled in 2019?
2.08
What is the average length of stay per arrival for foreign tourists in Brežice in 2019?
What is the average length of stay per arrival for foreign tourists in Brežice in 2019?
3.52
What is the overall average length of stay per arrival for tourists in Ljubljana in 2019?
What is the overall average length of stay per arrival for tourists in Ljubljana in 2019?
1.98
What are primary sources?
What are primary sources?
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Which of the following is considered a primary source?
Which of the following is considered a primary source?
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Secondary sources are created long after the event has taken place.
Secondary sources are created long after the event has taken place.
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Secondary sources bring information from '___ hand'.
Secondary sources bring information from '___ hand'.
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Match the type of source with its classification:
Match the type of source with its classification:
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Study Notes
Primary and Secondary Sources
- Primary sources:
- Original records/observations of people involved in or knowing about an event
- "First-hand view" or "eyewitness" account
- Not previously interpreted, evaluated, paraphrased, or condensed
- Created at the time of the event being described
- Examples: artefacts, manuscripts, autobiographies, recordings (audio, video, photos), creative works, administrative/legal documents, scientific papers, news articles
- Secondary sources:
- Information from "second hand"
- Summaries, analyses, interpretations, or evaluations of primary sources
- Written after the event being described
- Author has studied primary sources and interprets the "evidence"
- Examples: almanacs, encyclopedias, history books, textbooks, biographies, news articles, graphs, pictures, data collections, movies, TV series
Use of Sources
- Advantages of primary sources:
- Provide a "window into the past" with unfiltered access to records of artistic, social, scientific, and political thought during the specific period under study
- Can give a real sense of what it was like to be alive during a long-past era
- Disadvantages of primary sources:
- Questions of creator bias, purpose, and point of view may challenge students' assumptions
- Often incomplete and lack context, requiring students to use prior knowledge and analyze multiple primary sources
- Advantages of secondary sources:
- Provide analysis, synthesis, interpretation, or evaluation of primary sources
- Can uncover background or historical information about a topic and broaden understanding
- Allow readers to get expert views of events and bring together multiple primary sources
- Disadvantages of secondary sources:
- Reliability and validity are open to question
- Do not represent firsthand knowledge of a subject or event
Sources of Sources
- Archives, libraries, museums
- Digital sources:
- Library of Congress (Digital Collections)
- Internet Archive
- Statistical Office of Slovenia (and other countries)
- Eurostat (Tourism)
- World Travel & Tourism Council (Insight reports)
- UN World Tourism Organization (Tourism Statistics Data, Country Fact Sheets)
- Wikipedia:
- Not a reliable source (anyone can edit)
- Can be used to locate primary and secondary sources at the beginning of research
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Description
This quiz tests your understanding of primary and secondary sources, including their definitions, characteristics, and examples. Learn to identify the difference between original records and interpreted information.
