61.086-9 - Understanding and Promoting Student Reasoning Across the Content Areas

• In Event: 61.086 - Roundtable Session 21

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This symposium brings together educational researchers who investigate student reasoning across the content areas. With a focus on grades 4th to 8th, these researchers: 1) describe common patterns in students’ reasoning in specific disciplines, 2) discuss how students come to understand the importance of making reasoning explicit, and 3) identify specific instructional practices, including lexical markers of reasoning associated with exploratory talk, and teacher talk moves that support and deepen students’ reasoning in the classroom. These studies offer new insights into how teachers, across the academic subject areas, may help students develop both individual and collaborative reasoning (as articulated in Common Core expectations) over time, and help students become able participants in collaborative knowledge construction processes.

Sub Unit

• Division C - Learning and Instruction / Division C - Section 2a: Cognitive and Motivational Processes

Chair

• Catherine O'Connor, Boston University

Papers

• Supporting Students’ Argumentative Reasoning in the Social Studies Classroom - Leslie Duhaylongsod, Harvard University

• Shedding Light on the Struggle to Make Reasoning Explicit in Scientific Argumentation - Jonathan Todd Shemwell, University of Maine; Daniel K Capps, University of Maine; Thanh Le; Emily Silver; Christine Voyer, GMRI; Marie Thompson

• Teacher and Student Connecting Episodes and Reasoning Discourse Moves: Consistent, Contingent, Dialogic Practices - Maureen P. Boyd, University at Buffalo - SUNY; Ming Ming Chiu, Purdue University

• Building Toward Cogent Reasoning Across the Curriculum - Susan Jean Mayer, Critical Explorers