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Shannon Pappas – Communication Teacher, 2024
This activity aims to assist students with persuasive tactics for argumentative speeches. The activity involves students creating an argumentative speech to defend a hot-take assertion chosen from a list provided by the instructor. In small groups, students will craft an argument supporting their hot-take assertion and present it to the class.…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Public Speaking, Speeches, Models
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Abendroth, Johanna; Richter, Tobias – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Readers confronted with unfamiliar and controversial scientific debates tend to rely on simple heuristics such as the perceived plausibility to focus their cognitive resources on specific information during comprehension. In the present experiment, we tested the assumption that plausibility judgments as an integral part of comprehension are used…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Scientific Concepts, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Heuristics
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Spaska, Anastasiya M.; Savishchenko, Viktoriia M.; Komar, Olha A.; ?ritchenko, Tetiana Ya.; Maidanyk, Olena V. – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
The purpose of the study was to identify how debates effected the analytical thinking abilities of tertiary students and how the debates as an instructional approach were perceived by the students. The study used quantitative data collection methods such as tests and observation checklists and qualitative data collection methods such as a focus…
Descriptors: Evaluative Thinking, Problem Solving, Decision Making, Thinking Skills
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Casas-Quiroga, Lucía; Crujeiras-Pérez, Beatriz – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
This study is framed in the social perspective of Epistemology of Science, and it aims to examine the epistemic operations performed by high school students while engaged in a role-play about food safety that requires them to engage in both argumentation and decision-making practices. The epistemic operations are examined on two different levels:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 11, Science Process Skills
Shuster, Kate – Southern Poverty Law Center (NJ1), 2009
We live in a climate ripe for noise: Media outlets and 24-hour news cycles mean that everyone with access to a computer has access to a megaphone to broadcast their views. Never before in human history has an opinion had the opportunity to reach so many so quickly regardless of its accuracy or appropriateness. Of course, it's difficult to hear…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Mass Media Effects, Opinions, Evidence
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Pfau, Michael – Journal of the American Forensic Association, 1980
Examines the characteristics of incrementalism as it defines the present system in competitive debate. Outlines the strengths and weaknesses of this slow and deliberate pursuit of diverse goals and contends that it holds much argumentative promise. (JMF)
Descriptors: Debate, Decision Making, Evaluative Thinking, Goal Orientation
Underwood, Willard A. – 1973
Although texts on debate and argumentation deal with accepted forms of evidence, reasoning, and logical methods of proof, they do not cover adequately the "undefined" forms of proof. Criteria of evidence found in forensic literature are not always followed strictly by judges, in courtroom or classroom. Many debate judges allow imprecise, vague, or…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Critical Thinking, Debate, Deduction
Herman, Deldee M., Ed.; Ratliffe, Sharon A., Ed. – 1972
This volume of the Michigan Speech Association secondary curriculum guide--an expanded version of the 1968 edition (ED 026 393)--is devoted solely to the development of debating skills. The guide is intended to assist teachers in planning a course of instruction in debate and to provide techniques for coaching students who participate in an…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Debate, Evaluative Thinking, Extracurricular Activities
Himes, Kenneth G. – 1983
Debate paradigms, which at one time established standards to help judges evaluate arguments and rules to guide debaters' argument choice and strategy selection, no longer offer consistent guidance for either judges or debaters. An increased emphasis on creativity and flexibility has led to a general unwillingness to use a rigid debate format. The…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Debate, Evaluation Criteria
Ehninger, Douglas – 1974
This analysis of argumentation considers three separate, yet interrelated, aspects of the persuasive argument: evidence, warrant, and claim. A study of each of these components is presented in separate chapters with an examination of the role and standards each must carry out in formulating sound, logical proof. A classification of types of…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Conflict Resolution, Debate
Dudczak, Craig A.; Baker, David – 1984
Evaluators of argument are frequently confronted by conflicting claims. While these claims are usually based on probabilities, they are often resolved with the accepted claim treated as though it were "true," while the rejected claim is treated as though it were "false." Scenario testing is the label applied to a set of…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Competition, Conflict Resolution, Debate
Fadely, Dean – 1982
College debaters who go to law school are often surprised by the differences between the processes that take place in the court of reason and the process that takes place in the court of law. The court of reason relies mainly on authoritative testimony, while the court of law relies on direct evidence. Evidence in the court of reason is either…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Court Litigation, Court Role, Debate