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Mapping Children's Discussions of Evidence in Science to Assess Collaboration and Argumentation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The research reported in this paper concerns the development of children's skills of interpreting and evaluating evidence in science. Previous studies have shown that school teaching often places limited emphasis on the development of these skills, which
Bruffee K. A   +32 more
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Why do we burn? Examining arguments underpinning the use of prescribed burning to manage wildfire risk

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Managing wildfire risk requires consideration of complex and uncertain scientific evidence as well as trade‐offs between different values and goals. Conflicting perspectives on what values and goals are most important, what ought to be done and what trade‐offs are acceptable complicate those decisions.
Pele J. Cannon, Sarah Clement
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating lower secondary school students’ geometric argumentation structure using Toulmin model

open access: yesJurnal Elemen
Geometric argumentation has an important role in solving mathematical problems in geometric material, so students must have this ability. Each student has different thoughts, including when stating arguments.
M. Rizky Ramandani   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Aplicación del modelo de sthepen toulmin a la evolución conceptual del sistema circulatorio: perspectivas didácticas Application of the Stephen Toulmin's model to the circulatory system's conceptual evolution: didactical perspectives

open access: yesCiência & Educação, 2010
En este artículo, se presenta una breve sistematización acerca de la evolución del concepto de sangre que considera el período histórico que transcurre entre las concepciones de los egipcios hasta el siglo XVII, cuando Harvey consolida un ''modelo ...
Manuel Uribe   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Argumentation Analysis Presentation: Evaluating rhetoric-in-action [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Via a small group project format, students conduct a close analysis of a persuasive message (a speech, an editorial, a position statement, etc.) Referring to models of argumentation (e.g.
Plummer, Evelyn
core   +1 more source

The Informal Logic of Mathematical Proof

open access: yes, 2003
Informal logic is a method of argument analysis which is complementary to that of formal logic, providing for the pragmatic treatment of features of argumentation which cannot be reduced to logical form.
Brockriede Wayne   +22 more
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Good Reasoning on the Toulmin Model

open access: yesArgumentation, 2005
Some solo verbal reasoning serves the function of arriving at a correct answer to a question from information at the reasoner’s disposal. Such reasoning is good if and only if its grounds are justified and adequate, its warrant is justified, and the reasoner is justified in assuming that no defeaters apply.
openaire   +2 more sources

Expanding Possibilities for the Use of Writing Genres in Early Elementary Science: Investigating First‐Graders’ Multimodal Sequential Explanations

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the outcomes of the implementation of a first grade unit incorporating multiple modes of representation and genre‐based pedagogy to support writing instruction in the genre of sequential explanations. At the end of a 6‐day unit investigating the structure and functions of carnivorous plants, 47 first graders completed a
Rachel E. Wilson, Leslie U. Bradbury
wiley   +1 more source

Popper's Darwinian analogy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
One of the most deeply entrenched ideas in Popper's philosophy is the analogy between the growth of scientific knowledge and the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection. Popper gave his first exposition of these ideas very early on.
Nanay, Bence
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Argumentation Mining in User-Generated Web Discourse

open access: yes, 2015
The goal of argumentation mining, an evolving research field in computational linguistics, is to design methods capable of analyzing people's argumentation. In this article, we go beyond the state of the art in several ways.
Gurevych, Iryna, Habernal, Ivan
core   +1 more source

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