Elementary students expressed significantly more opinion statements supporting the other-side when reading the other-side historical account than when reading their own-side account¶

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q3 i? Students made significantly more opinion statements supporting the other-side when reading the other-side text (n = 16) than the own-side text (n = 4). → Iordanou 2025

Evidence¶

Iordanou 2025¶

Iordanou, K., Fotiou, C., Manoli, A., & Zembylas, M. (2025). Examining myside bias on a controversial historical event after engagement in dialogic argumentation: Insights from a think aloud study. Learning and Instruction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2025.102209

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Think-aloud study of 30 Greek-Cypriot 6th graders reading authentic own-side and other-side accounts of the 1974 war; opinion statements were coded from think-aloud protocols. The study found "a difference that was statistically significant" in other-side support across texts, with no notable change over time.

"Statements supporting the “other-side” were more prevalent when reading the “other-side” text (n = 16), compared to the “own-side” text (n = 4), a difference that was statistically significant. There was no notable change over time."

Discussion¶

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• Reading the own-side account elicited more valid elaborative inferences, relevant associations, consequences-for-present statements and evaluative comments, while the other-side account elicited more invalid inferences — related
• After the intervention, some students shifted from one-sided to two-sided reasoning: comments against their own side doubled and own-side support halved when reading the other-side text — related
• Cognitive processing differs by text type: participants engaged in more epistemic processing, meta-comprehension, and coherence-based processing when reading the other-side text than the own-side text — related