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Summary versus argument tasks when working with multiple documents: Which is better for whom?
2010
Abstract This article reports on two experiments where undergraduates read five documents on a scientific topic and afterwards answered comprehension questions and wrote either summaries or argument essays on the topic. In the first experiment, students who were instructed to work with the documents for the purpose of summarizing their contents displayed better comprehension and integration of document contents than did students instructed to construct arguments from the documents. In the second experiment, focusing on whether the effects of task instructions on multiple-documents comprehension and integration could be moderated by students’ prior knowledge, it was found that only students …
Promoting sixth graders’ credibility evaluation of Web pages: An intervention study
2020
Abstract This study investigated whether a teacher-led intervention program on online inquiry improved sixth graders' performance in a credibility evaluation task. Students (N = 342) were divided into two conditions, an intervention group (190 students) and a control group (152 students). The intervention program (21 × 45 min lessons) was implemented during a six-week course as a part of normal schoolwork. The program included explicit teaching of online inquiry skills: searching for information (3 lessons), evaluating credibility of information (3 lessons), and synthesizing information (3 lessons). In addition, the skills taught were applied in two online inquiry projects comprising 12 les…
The Great Departure: Rethinking National(ist) Common Sense
2012
This article argues that, in order to overcome the national(ist) common sense that continues to haunt everyday political and scholarly interpretations of mobility, scholars need not diagnose nationalism with greater vigour, but should rather move beyond facile diagnoses of nationalism. The article calls for a meticulous tracing of relations and practices of emplacement and displacement that ubiquitous national(ist) interpretive frames both co-opt and exceed simultaneously. The argument is elaborated on the basis of an analysis of historical articulations of emplacement and displacement in Latvian understandings of ‘the good life’. The article pays particular attention to the ways in which t…
Argumentativeness among Selected Finnish and American College Students
1991
Summary.-Compared on the Infante/Rancer Argumentativeness scale, 247 Finnish university students had a significantly higher mean score on argumentativeness as a trait than 155 American university students. No significant difference was noted on the desire to approach arguments, but the American students were significantly more inclined to avoid arguments than the Finnish students. Conceptualized by Infante and Rancer (1982) as a personality trait, argumentativeness contains tendencies to approach and to avoid arguments. Persons with approach tendencies will advocate issues on controversial positions and attack conflicting positions. Those with avoidance tendencies try to stay out of argumen…
Argumentointi lasten verkkokeskusteluissa
2008
Mediju argumentācijas stratēģijas par Stambulas konvencijas ratifikācijas nepieciešamību Latvijā. Latviešu valodā iznākošajos medijos no 2016. gada l…
2018
Maģistra darba "Mediju argumentācijas stratēģijas par Stambulas konvencijas ratifikācijas nepieciešamību Latvijā. Latviešu valodā iznākošajos medijos no 2016. līdz 2017. gadam" mērķis ir noskaidrot, kādas ir mediju argumentācijas stratēģijas par Stambulas konvencijas ratifikācijas nepieciešamību latviešu valodā iznākošo mediju intervijās un diskusijās. Darba teorētiskajā daļā iztirzātas dzimtes un dzimuma jēdzienu atšķirības, aplūkots feministiskās teorijas skatījums dzimtes un vardarbības aspektā, pret-dzimtes, labējā populisma un mediju dienaskārtības jēdziens, skaidrota to ietekme uz sabiedrību. Pētījums veikts, izmantojot diskursa vēsturisko metodi un kvantitatīvo kontentanalīzi. Kā dat…
Väite ja perustelu 9.-luokkalaisten mielipidekirjoituksissa
2001
"Koulu on kälystä, koska on tyhmiä aineita" : argumentointi 7.-luokkalaisten ja abiturienttien mielipidekirjiotuksissa
2000
Argumentaatio monitieteisen opetuksen edellytyksenä
2004
Monitieteisyys, poikkitieteisyys, tieteidenvälisyys ja tieteiden välisten rajojen tahi raja-aitojen ylittäminen ovat ajan hengen mukaisia käsitteitä opetuksen kehittämisessä. Pohdimme artikkelissamme monitieteisyyden problematiikkaa ja käsitettä sekä monitieteisen opetuksen elementtejä kahden opintojakson avulla. Kirjoittajille monitieteinen opetus avautuu argumentaation, yhteistoiminnan sekä tiedonhankinnan ja -hallinnan taitojen kautta. Esittelemme kaksi opintojaksoa, joista toinen perehdyttää argumentaation ja retoriikan perusteisiin ja toinen teledemokratian ilmiöön. Käytämme näitä kahta sisällöltään ja toteutustavaltaan erilaista opintojaksoa esimerkkinä siitä, millaista etua monitiete…