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Integrating Dialectical Constructivist Scaffolding-Based Argumentation Mapping to Support Students' Dialectical Thinking, Oral and Dialogical Argumentation Complexity
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Darmawansah Darmawansah; Gwo-Jen Hwang; Chi-Jen Lin – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
Dialectical thinking is a way of discussing and analyzing things from different viewpoints to reach a solution. It is often taught in language courses by conducting argumentation activities. However, without providing effective strategies or tools, learners generally encounter difficulties in structuring their viewpoints during the argumentation…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Using Centrality of Concept Maps as a Measure of Problem Space States in Computer-Supported Collaborative Problem Solving
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Clariana, Roy B.; Engelmann, Tanja; Yu, Wu – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2013
Problem solving likely involves at least two broad stages, problem space representation and then problem solution (Newell and Simon, Human problem solving, 1972). The metric centrality that Freeman ("Social Networks" 1:215-239, 1978) implemented in social network analysis is offered here as a potential measure of both. This development research…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Social Networks, Network Analysis, Comparative Analysis