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Martins, Marina; Justi, Rosária – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
The aims of this paper are twofold. First, we present, justify, and characterise an instrument for analysing students' argumentative reasoning developed from Walton's ideas. Then, from the analysis of students' argumentative discussion about a socio-scientific controversy, we identify the advantages and disadvantages of using the instrument. The…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Abstract Reasoning, Debate, Science and Society
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Lawson, Anton E.; Kral, Elmer A. – Educational Forum, 1985
This article presents 10 practical teaching procedures to encourage students to develop formal reasoning skills. A twelfth-grade English course is used as an example. Procedures include pretesting, sequencing instruction, providing students with concrete experiences, discussing reasoning patterns and forms of argumentation, assigning argumentative…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Debate