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Peer reviewedAnderson, Richard C.; And Others – Cognition and Instruction, 1997
Examined children's naturally occurring arguments sampled from transcripts of discussions in fourth-grade classrooms. Found that children's arguments had vague referring expressions, sometimes did not contain explicit conclusions, and seemed to lack explicit warrants to authorize conclusions. Missing or oblique information was usually given in the…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Deduction, Inferences
