ERIC Number: EJ1374755
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0671
EISSN: EISSN-1940-0675
The Effects of a Collaborative Argumentation Intervention on Chinese Students' Socioscientific Issues Decision-Making
Journal of Educational Research, v115 n6 p317-332 2022
This study investigates the effect of group collaborative argumentation on the quality of decision-making on waste incineration of socioscientific issues (SSI). To achieve this, fifty-nine high school students engaged with a lecture-style class that did not use any argumentation activities. They then completed an individual survey aimed at examining individual decision-making, as the pre-test. The participants then received a two-week pedagogical intervention of collaborative argumentation, after which they completed the same survey again, as the post-test. The results showed that, after the argumentation intervention, students made more statements that considered ethical issues and policies. In addition, students defended their positions with more in-depth analysis supported by sufficient and scientific evidence. These findings reveal that argumentation facilitates students' growth in interdisciplinary thinking and improves the quality of their decision-making on the SSI. Implication was group argumentation will be of great value to the more widespread implementation of the SSI curriculum.
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Social Problems, Decision Making, Sanitation, High School Students, Lecture Method, Cooperative Learning, Program Effectiveness, Ethics, Evidence, Group Activities, Science and Society, Interdisciplinary Approach, Peer Influence, Foreign Countries, Pollution, Ecology
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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