Search results for "Argument"
showing 10 items of 522 documents
On some inequalities for the identric, logarithmic and related means
2015
We offer new proofs, refinements as well as new results related to classical means of two variables, including the identric and logarithmic means.
Warm Experts 2.0
2019
This chapter focuses on family roles in digital families, drawing upon, and updating for the present day, the concept of the warm expert. First, the impact of information and communication technologies on family roles is investigated, based on qualitative research material collected from Finland, Italy and Slovenia in 2014 and 2015. After that the analysis looks at how family roles and responsibilities can change over the human life course. Three types of warm experts are identified, with their characteristics described and discussed. Lastly, the argument is made that intimately knowing the other family members is an essential quality of those acting in the role of warm experts, and that wh…
Three Dimensions of Dialogicity in Dialogic Argumentation
2019
Three dimensions of dialogicity are emphasised in the literature: dialogic teacher talk, students' dialogic moves and organising for dialogic teaching. In this article, we examine these dimensions and the interplay between them in supporting dialogic argumentation in the context of whole-class discussions in mathematics and physics. Three seemingly different seventh-grade lessons were selected for further analysis from the database of a research project on dialogic argumentation. In this paper, we focus on whole-class discussions after a group assignment. The lessons were video recorded with multiple cameras and transcribed. We characterised dialogic features of teacher talk, more general t…
Reciprocal vs nonreciprocal trade agreements: Which have been best to promote exports?
2019
The Doha Development Agenda recognizes the central role that international trade can play in the promotion of economic development. In fact, the increase of exports from developing countries to developed nations' markets has been considered a key element for developing countries to realize the potential benefits of globalization. Over the last decades, developed countries have provided preferential access to their markets to developing countries through nonreciprocal trade agreements. Moreover, developing countries have also participated in reciprocal trade agreements. This paper re-examines comparatively the effect of both kinds of trade agreements on exports from developing countries but …
An Online Inquiry Tool to Support the Exploration of Controversial Issues on the Internet
2016
This paper describes a theoretically informed Online Inquiry Tool designed to support the exploration of controversial issues on the Internet. The tool’s design is grounded in principles associated with theories of online research and comprehension, argumentation for learning, representational guidance, and cognitive load. The purpose of the tool is to help students organize, monitor, and regulate several complex cognitive activities likely to present challenges during online inquiry. Supports are embedded into the digital tool to help students plan their information search around a controversial issue, identify supporting arguments and counterarguments related to this issue, critically eva…
Online reading as an individual and social practice
2012
Internettekstit argumentoinnin lähteinä: kuudesluokkalaisten heikkojen ja sujuvien lukijoiden argumentointitaidot
2016
Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää kuudesluokkalaisten kirjallisia argumentointitaitoja silloin, kun he etsivät tietoa internetistä ottaakseen kantaa kiistanalaiseen asiaan. Lisäksi tarkasteltiin lukusujuvuuden heijastumista näihin taitoihin. Argumentointitaidot ovat keskeisiä taitoja jo lapsille kehittäen muun muassa ymmärtävää oppimista sekä kriittistä internetlukutaitoa. Tutkimus toteutettiin osana Suomen Akatemian rahoittamaa eSeek-hanketta, ja siihen osallistui 341 kuudesluokkalaista. Tutkimuksen aineisto koostui lukusujuvuutta mittaavien testien tuloksista sekä oppilaiden internetiä jäljittelevässä arviointiympäristössä kirjoittamista argumentoivista sähköpostiviesteistä. Viestei…
Lukiolaiset internetlähteiden luotettavuuden arvioijina
2017
Internetin käytön yleistyminen ja saatavilla olevan informaation jatkuva lisääntyminen on tehnyt tiedon luotettavuuden arvioinnista entistä vaikeampaa. Internetlähteiden käyttö lukio-opinnoissa on myös lisääntynyt. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää, kuinka hyvin lukiolaiset osaavat arvioida internetlähteiden luotettavuutta. Tutkimus on osa ARONI-tutkimushanketta ja siihen osallistui 186 Hämeenlinnan ja Riihimäen alueiden lukiolaista. Lukiolaiset tekivät internetlukutaitoja mittaavan tehtävän, jonka yhtenä osana tuli etsiä kaksi internetlähdettä rokottamisen pakollisuutta kos-kevaa selvitystä varten. Lähteiden luotettavuus tuli arvioida asteikolla luotettava - melko luotettava - …
Control Motivational System
2016
In this chapter, the concept of control is presented using historical and contemporary literature. This overview presents compelling evidence that shows the importance of control in motivational science. The basic need for control is further analysed in the three all-embracing life domains: mastering environmental cues where the need for achievement is prominent, balancing interpersonal relations leading to the emergence of the need for power and managing the intra-personal processes resulting in employment of the various self-strategies. The chapter closes with the argumentation that all the presented evidence in the different life domains strongly suggests the existence of one unifying mo…
The role of animacy in online argument interpretation in Mandarin Chinese
2011
The present event-related brain potential (ERPs) study demonstrates that online argument interpretation in verb-final structures in Mandarin Chinese is modulated by two factors: a preference for Undergoer-before-Actor orders and a preference for animate Actor arguments. Participants listened to sentences with NP(animate)-NP(inanimate)-verb or NP(inanimate)-NP(animate)-verb orders embedded in minimal contexts. Sentences were disambiguated towards either an Actor-initial or an Undergoer-initial order by the clause-final verb. Between 450 and 700 ms post verb onset, we observed an anterior negativity for sentences violating both preferences (inanimate-Actor-initial structures) vs. sentences fu…