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Argumentation in Secondary School Students' Structured and Unstructured Chat Discussions
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Salminen, Timo; Marttunen, Miika; Laurinen, Leena – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2012
Joint construction of new knowledge demands that persons can express their statements in a convincing way and explore other people's arguments constructively. For this reason, more knowledge on different means to support collaborative argumentation is needed. This study clarifies whether structured interaction supports students' critical and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Persuasive Discourse, Interaction, Foreign Countries
Learning of Argumentation Skills in Networked and Face-to-Face Environments.
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Marttunen, Miika; Laurinen, Leena – Instructional Science, 2001
In a teaching experiment, 16 face-to-face and 11 e-mail Finnish university students studied academic debating in an argumentation course. Results indicated the e-mail students learned to identify and choose relevant grounds, while face-to-face students improved in putting forward counter-argumentation. The study suggests that argumentation skills…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Conventional Instruction, Debate
Learning Environments for Studying Argumentation: Learning Effects of E-Mail and Face-to-Face Study.
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Marttunen, Miika; Laurinen, Leena – 1999
In a teaching experiment, 16 face-to-face and 11 e-mail Finnish university students engaged in an argumentation course. The 19 students of the control group did not study argumentation. The course involved two lectures, exercises with argumentative texts, and face-to-face or e-mail seminar discussions based on these texts. The topics of the texts…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Debate, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Distance Education