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Student Difficulties in Socio-Scientific Argumentation and Decision-Making Research Findings: Crossing the Borders of Two Research Lines
Acar, Omer; Turkmen, Lutfullah; Roychoudhury, Anita
International Journal of Science Education, v32 n9 p1191-1206 Jun 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, the authors propose that incorporation of decision-making research findings to argumentation research may help students overcome these problematic areas. For this aim, decision-making research findings about value-focused decision-making framework and common heuristics have been discussed. Specifically, the authors propose that explicit teaching of argumentation research should provide students a decision-making framework in which students can consider their values about a socio-scientific issue and assess different alternatives as well as incorporate teaching about common heuristics. The authors believe that this incorporation is necessary for a quality student argumentation in socio-scientific issues. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Science and Society, Persuasive Discourse, Science Education, Heuristics, Evaluative Thinking, Evidence, Values, Scientific Principles, Student Attitudes
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