Students' historical argumentation rarely includes counterarguments or weighing of arguments¶
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q2 i? In the authors' study of writing argumentative texts in history, most pre-university students mentioned several arguments supporting their claim but gave hardly any counterarguments and no weighing of arguments pro and contra. → Jannet van Drie & Carla van Boxtel 2008
Evidence¶
Jannet van Drie & Carla van Boxtel 2008¶
Jannet van Drie & Carla van Boxtel. (2008). Historical Reasoning: Towards a Framework for Analyzing Students' Reasoning about the Past. Educ Psychol Rev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-007-9056-1
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The review reports the authors' own study (Van Drie et al. 2006) of pre-university students writing argumentative history texts, finding "hardly any counterarguments given, and with no weighing of arguments pro and contra". No effect size is printed.
"Our own findings in a study on writing argumentative texts in history showed that most students (pre-university level) only mentioned several arguments in support of their claim, with hardly any counterarguments given, and with no weighing of arguments pro and contra"
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Writing Skills — outcome: instruction changes it
Related Claims¶
- Argumentation Improves Reasoning — related
- Rubric dimensions were revised in 2023 to sharpen argumentation, contextualization, and Level 1 descriptions — related
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Students' historical argumentation rarely includes counterarguments or weighing of arguments |
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Students' historical argumentation rarely includes counterarguments or weighing of arguments |
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