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Direct linkAcar, Omer; Turkmen, Lutfullah; Roychoudhury, Anita – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
Students' poor argumentation in the context of socio-scientific issues has become a concern in science education. Identified problems associated with student argumentation in socio-scientific issues are misevaluation of evidence, naive nature of science conceptualizations, and inappropriate use of value-based reasoning. In this theoretical paper,…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Persuasive Discourse, Science Education, Heuristics
Peer reviewedWineburg, Samuel S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1991
How people evaluate primary and secondary sources when considering historical questions was studied by asking eight historians and eight high school seniors to think aloud while reviewing written and pictorial documents about the Battle of Lexington. Differences between the groups are discussed concerning cognitive processes and beliefs about…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods
