56.038 - Problem-Based Education SIG Business Meeting

Session Type: Business Meeting

Abstract

Come catch up with your colleagues and enjoy some appetizers! We will be going over SIG business, and also will be hearing an address from Clark Chinn, Professor and Chair of Educational Psychology (Rutgers University) and past editor of Educational Psychologist. The title of the talk is "The Quality of Arguments in Problem-based and Inquiry Learning Environments,” and the abstract is as follows:
Argumentation is a core discourse for a variety of PBL and inquiry learning environments. In conceptualizing argumentation, researchers have focused heavily on structural analyses of argument quality--including the widespread use of Toulmin’s Argument Pattern. However, these structural analyses often cannot distinguish between good and bad argumentation. In this presentation, I discuss an alternative to analyzing argument quality--an approach that draws on a recent model of epistemic cognition. I discuss further the implications of this analysis for the design of learning environments and for assessment.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Problem-Based Education

Participants

• Mahnaz Moallem, University of North Carolina - Wilmington

• Mary English, Northeastern University

• Brian R. Belland, Utah State University

• Clark A. Chinn, Rutgers University