Title: Authentic Thinking with Argumentation: Putting on the Thinking Caps of Scientists and Designers
Abstract: A growing number of science educators make efforts to facilitate participation in authentic practices, such as scientific experiment and inquiry-based learning. In science education, integrating guided inquiry with engineering and technology can provide learners with opportunities to apply scientific concepts and principles to the design of artifacts and generate meaningful questions for scientific inquiry. Argumentation plays a crucial role in both science inquiry and design activities. Learners need to create, compare, and evaluate arguments so as to explain scientific phenomena and design an artifact for solving a real-world problem. This chapter provides a conceptual framework that can be used in the development of learning environments for authentic thinking with argumentation (ATA). The ATA model is carefully designed to promote students’ competence in argumentation, in conjunction with the implementation of inquiry and design-based activities. The ATA consists of two main activities, POE (prediction-observation-explanation) and DOE (design-observation-evaluation), which reciprocally influence each other.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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