Adolescents paired with more skilled adult dialogic partners show greater skill using evidence to support claims than peers paired only with similar-ability partners¶

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q2 i? In both dialogs and essays, the experimental group showed greater skills in using evidence to support a claim relative to the comparison group. → Song 2023

Evidence¶

Song 2023¶

Song, Yu. (2023). Apprenticeship As a Developmental Mechanism in Argumentation Skill Development. Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University. https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/Song_columbia_0054D_18218

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Multi-week intervention dissertation in which young adolescents engaged in anonymous one-on-one electronic dialogs; the experimental group had more skilled adult partners while the comparison group's partners were confined to similar ability peers. The abstract reports the experimental group "showed greater skills in using evidence to support a claim" in both dialogs and essays. No effect sizes are printed.

"In both the dialogs and essays, the experimental group showed greater skills in using evidence to support a claim, generating advanced counterarguments, and constructing integrative critical arguments coordinating two contrasting claims, relative to the comparison group."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Apprenticeship-partnered adolescents generate more advanced counterarguments than similar-ability-paired peers — related
• The more skilled adult partners displayed skilled counterargument, evidence use, frequent questioning, and meta-talk about the discourse — related
• Both partnered and comparison groups advanced in individual dialogic argument skills, demonstrating transfer of higher-order skills from social to individual level — related