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Cansu Karaman Türk; Aylin Çam – Science & Education, 2025
Socioscientific issues (SSI), important for developing scientific literacy, are controversial issues related to social and scientific information. This study investigated the effect of argumentation about SSI on middle school students' views, attitudes, knowledge about SSI, and their scientific literacy. The study uses a pre-test and post-test…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Middle School Students, Scientific Literacy, Student Attitudes
Agung W. Subiantoro; David Treagust; Kok-Sing Tang – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
This research aimed to understand the features of the informal reasoning skills performed by students who debated the socio-scientific contentious issue of breastfeeding versus milk formula during an Indonesian biology lesson. A class of 30 students in grade 11 discussed this issue by participating in a role play represented by four organisations…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Nutrition, Infants, Biology
Brian Hand; Gavin Fulmer; Jee Kyung Suh – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2024
National standards that centre on the underpinning epistemic practices of the discipline has emphasised the need for teachers to focus much more on knowledge generation approaches to learning. Adopting a complexity perspective, we attempt to understand how teachers shift over time by examining their epistemic orientation to knowledge generation…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Epistemology, Language Usage, Dialogs (Language)
Kathryn Hosbein; Joi Walker – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
For decades, the case has been made for inquiry-based activities that enable teaching and learning of science concepts through the process of doing science. Laboratory courses provide a unique setting with opportunities for students to learn to ask questions, plan and carry out investigations, analyze data, and construct scientific arguments. Yet,…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, Active Learning, Inquiry
Jin, Qingna; Kim, Mijung – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Students' difficulties in scientific argumentation have been widely reported in the literature. Researchers argue that these difficulties result mainly from students' lack of understanding of the goals and norms of argumentation. Therefore, designing and implementing appropriate instructional scaffolds to facilitate such essential knowledge of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Persuasive Discourse, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Metacognition
Anahuac Valero Haro; Omid Noroozi; Harm J. A. Biemans; Martin Mulder; Seyyed Kazem Banihashem – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
This study explored the effects of directed and undirected online peer feedback types on students' peer feedback performance, argumentative essay writing skills, and acquisition of domain-specific knowledge. The study used a pre-test and post-test design with four conditions (feedback, feedforward, a combination of feedback and feedforward, and…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Peer Relationship, Feedback (Response), Influences
Biçer, Ali; Ercan Yalman, Feride – Turkish Journal of Education, 2021
This research aimed to determine and develop 8th grade students' views on the demarcation between science and pseudoscience. In this context, the study was designed with convergent parallel design which is a mixed research method. The study group for the quantitative dimension was composed of 32 8th graders in a secondary school in Akdeniz…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Grade 8, Beliefs, Scientific Literacy
Hamalosmanoglu, Mustafa; Varinlioglu, Serdar – Science Education International, 2019
The purpose of the study was to reveal the effects of scientific argumentation-oriented teaching activities on the environmental attitudes and knowledge of seventh-grade Turkish students within the human and environment unit compared to the activities suggested by the ministry of education science and technology curriculum. This study employed a…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Instructional Effectiveness, Grade 7, Student Attitudes
Memis, Esra Kabatas; Akkas, Büsra Nur Çakan; Sönmez, Elif; Öz, Muhittin – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2022
The purpose of this study was to identify the Argumentation-based Inquiry (ABI) process from the perspective of teachers implementing the approach and determine the impacts of the process on both teachers and students. The researchers conducted the study via qualitative research methods. To this end, three science teachers teaching in three…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Inquiry, Teacher Attitudes, Science Teachers
Larrain, Antonia; Singer, Vivian; Strasser, Katherine; Howe, Christine; López, Patricia; Pinochet, Jorge; Moran, Camila; Sánchez, Álvaro; Silva, Maximiliano; Villavicencio, Constanza – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
There is compelling evidence that arguing with peers in educational contexts fosters students' content knowledge and argumentation skills. Indeed, curricula have already been developed that, through tailored support for peer argumentation, promote both content knowledge and argumentation skills simultaneously. However, we do not yet know how to…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Middle School Students, Knowledge Level, Peer Relationship
Lindsey Beth L'Ecuyer – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Biology and biotechnology are increasingly ubiquitous and genome research will define the 21st century as the century of biology (Venter & Cohen, 2004). Comprehension of biology is needed to engage with major public policy issues and to make informed decisions (Barton & Uphadyay, 2010; Ladson-Billings, 2003; NRC, 2012; Walker, 2021).…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, Biology, Science Instruction
Larrain, Antonia; Freire, Paulina; López, Patricia; Grau, Valeska – Cognition and Instruction, 2019
Peer argumentation, especially the discussion of contrary points of view, has experimentally been found to be effective in promoting science content knowledge, but how this occurs is still unknown. The available explanations are insufficient because they do not account for the evidence showing that gains in content knowledge are unrelated to group…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Peer Influence, Middle School Students, Science Instruction
Chen, Ying-Chih; Aguirre-Mendez, Claudia; Terada, Takeshi – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
This study used a quasi-experimental design to examine the effects of argumentative writing on non-science majors' conceptual understanding and the growth of their writing skills over a semester. To assess gain in conceptual knowledge, tests were given before and after the course; students in the writing group gained significantly more than…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing Skills, Science Instruction, College Science
de Waard, Esther F.; Prins, Gjalt T.; van Joolingen, Wouter R. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2020
Sustainability has become a prominent theme in society and can be considered as an integral part of scientific citizenship. This study investigates to what extent the production, use and re-use of (bio)plastics initiates students' reasoning and to identify the kind of content knowledge students put forward. The structure of students' arguments was…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Sustainability, Plastics, Knowledge Level
Pols, C. F. J.; Dekkers, P. J. J. M.; de Vries, M. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Physics inquiry can be interpreted as the construction of a cogent argument in which students apply inquiry knowledge and knowledge of physics to the systematic collection of relevant, valid, and reliable data, creating optimal scientific support for a conclusion that answers the research question. In learning how to devise, conduct and evaluate a…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Active Learning, Inquiry, Physics