Scientific reasoning and scientific argumentation are highly valued outcomes of K-12 and
higher education. In this article, we first review main topics and key findings of three different …

Theoretical and empirical research on argument and argumentation in science education
has intensified over the last two decades. The term “argument” in this review refers to the …

Application of new automated scoring technologies, such as natural language processing
and machine learning, makes it possible to provide automated feedback on students' short …

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Learning to argue is an essential objective in education; and online environments have
been found to support the sharing, constructing, and representing of arguments in multiple …

Science educators increasingly seek to support students' participation in scientific practices,
particularly epistemic practices, that is, those that ground authority for knowing in the …

Findings generated by recent research in science education, international debate on the
guiding purposes of science education and the nature of scientific and technological literacy …

This study explores how student-generated questions can support argumentation in science.
Students were asked to discuss which of two graphs showing the change in temperature …

In argumentative discourse, there are two kinds of activity–dispute and deliberation–that
depend on the argumentative task goal. In dispute the goal is to defend a conclusion by …

The national science standards, along with prominent researchers, call for increased focus
on scientific argumentation in the classroom. Over the past decade, researchers have …