Pair adolescent learners anonymously with more skilled adult partners in electronic dialogs on controversial issues¶

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Description¶

A concrete implementable activity drawn from the dissertation's intervention: young adolescents conduct anonymous one-on-one electronic dialogs on controversial issues over multiple weeks, with some paired to more skilled adult partners who model "skilled forms of counterargument and use of evidence to support claims" and pose frequent questions. Individual argument skill is then assessed on a new topic through a solitary constructed dialog and an essay.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• A series of more skilled partners who can display skilled counterargument, evidence use, questioning, and meta-talk; multi-week scheduling of one-on-one electronic dialogs on controversial issues.

Constraints¶

• The strategy was studied with young adolescents in anonymous electronic dialogs; the abstract does not report effects for other populations or formats.

Target Learners¶

• young adolescents

Target Learning Goals¶

• using evidence to support claims
• generating advanced counterarguments
• constructing integrative critical arguments

Affordances¶

• Apprenticeship Model Argument Skill Development

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Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• 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