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Advancing Students' Argumentation: Moving Beyond Structure

Mon, April 11, 7:45 to 9:15am, Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Room 150 A

Session Type: Symposium

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Engaging students in argumentation is central to new curriculum standards around the world. A preponderance of educational research on argumentation focuses on the structure of arguments--whether the arguments have certain structural parts of arguments such as claims, evidence, and warrants. Although a focus on argument structure is a productive starting point, there is more to argument quality than structure alone, and the field urgently needs new approaches to conceptualize argument quality. In this symposium, we bring together new research on argumentation that expands our view of argumentation quality beyond structure. Each of the four papers will advance new conceptualizations of argumentation quality, as well as methodologies to analyze argumentation that capture these new dimensions of argument quality.

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