Looking in Classrooms uses educational, psychological, and social science theories and
classroom-based research to teach future classroom teachers about the complexities and …

Many people think that arguing interferes with learning. They link argumentation to a certain
type of oppositional argument that is increasingly prevalent in our media culture. Tannen …

This article explores the concepts of critical questions (from DN) and integrative and
refutational argument stratagems as an approach for teaching argumentation and critical …

The chapter focuses on promoting a coherent and principled approach to the use of varied
models of peer learning to fit the teacher's instructional goals for students. Students need to …

We identify three aspects of scientific thinking beyond the control-of-variables strategy that
we claim are essential for students to master as a foundation for skilled scientific thinking …

Increased demands for colleges and universities to engage in outcomes assessment for
accountability purposes have accelerated the need to bridge the gap between higher …

We report a study of a class of 28 sixth graders engaged in an extended computer‐
supported argumentive discourse activity. Participants collaborated with a same‐side peer …

Computer‐supported collaborative argumentation can improve understanding and problem‐
solving skills. This study uses WebCT to explore the improvement of argumentation in …

Esta ponencia revisa y analiza algunas investigaciones sobre la enseñanza de la
argumentación en la escritura de textos multimodales digitales, temática que se aborda en …

This empirical chapter discusses the educational design of argumentative activities.
Productive argumentative activity may be encouraged, for example, by elicitation …