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Simulated Jury as a Model for Teaching and Learning in a Remote Chemistry Teaching Methods Course
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Viviane Florentino de Melo; Rodrigo Drumond Vieira – Journal of Education and Learning, 2023
In this article, we focus on a set of remote activities regarding simulated juries, judges' evaluations, communication of verdicts, and a post-discussion conversation. These activities aimed to promote learning of the preservice teachers about the differences between remote and in-person teaching in a chemistry teaching methods course. The set of…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Methods Courses, Preservice Teachers
Negotiation of Meaning in Digital L2 Learning Interaction: Task Design versus Task Performance
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Van der Zwaard, Rose; Bannink, Anne – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2020
In this microanalytical study, designed as part of an interdisciplinary and intercultural virtual exchange project for undergraduate students, the authors investigate the correlation between task design on the one hand and participant interaction during task performance on the other. The task created for this study consisted of 12 low-frequency…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
The Interplay of Tasks, Strategies and Negotiations in Second Life
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Chen, Julian ChengChiang – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2018
Driven by interactionist theory and operationalized by task-based interaction, this study aims to investigate EFL learners' task-based negotiation in Second Life (SL), a 3D multi-user virtual environment (MUVE). A group of adult EFL learners with diverse cultural/linguistic backgrounds in L1 participated in this task-based virtual class. Learners…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction
Assessing Mathematical Argumentation through Automated Conversation
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Cayton-Hodges, Gabrielle A. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
Mathematical Argumentation skills have historically been overlooked in assessment, but the inclusion of Mathematical Argumentation in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as one of the Standards of Mathematical Practice challenges assessment developers to assess this mathematical practice. Explanation and justification of one's own thinking to a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Teaching Methods, Computer Simulation
I Am Sure There May Be a Planet There: Student Articulation of Uncertainty in Argumentation Tasks
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Buck, Zoë E.; Lee, Hee-Sun; Flores, Joanna – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
We investigated how students articulate uncertainty when they are engaged in structured scientific argumentation tasks where they generate, examine, and interpret data to determine the existence of exoplanets. In this study, 302 high school students completed 4 structured scientific arguments that followed a series of computer-model-based…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Context), Persuasive Discourse, Scientific Concepts, Scientific Literacy
Using Social Networking for Online Role-Plays to Develop Students' Argumentative Strategies
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Beach, Richard; Doerr-Stevens, Candance – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2011
Social networking sites may include argumentative writing about particular issues in which participants adopt competing perspective and discourses on those issues. This study examined roles and discourses adopted by high school students participating in an online role-play conducted on a Ning platform regarding their school's Internet policies on…
Descriptors: High School Students, Persuasive Discourse, School Policy, Administrative Policy