摘要
This study aimed to investigate the effects of on-line argumentation on 37 university students’ informal reasoning regarding a socio-scientific. In addition, such effects on students with different reasoning abilities were also explored. The students were asked to discuss the issue, “xenotransplantation,” anonymously in the on-line discussion forum in groups for a week (7 days). This study revealed significant effects of on-line discussion task on improving the students’ informal reasoning quality. More importantly, it was found that both the students achieving a “higher” reasoning level and those achieving a “lower” reasoning level benefited from the anonymous on-line discussion, but in different ways. Both the students in the two groups proposed significantly more arguments after on-line discussion task; but only the students achieving a “lower” reasoning level performed significantly better in their rebuttal construction and usage of different reasoning modes after the on-line discussion task.
| 原文 | 英語 |
|---|---|
| 主出版物標題 | Perspectives on Scientific Argumentation: Theory, Practice and Research |
| 編輯 | Myint Swe Khine |
| 出版地 | Dordrecht |
| 發行者 | Springer Netherlands |
| 頁面 | 221-234 |
| 頁數 | 14 |
| ISBN（列印） | 978-94-007-2470-9 |
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| 出版狀態 | 已發佈 - 2012 |