Year: 1995
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Increasingly, social and collaborative processes are seen as central to the development of thinking skills, including the skills of scientific thinking.With colleagues we have developed a software system (Belvedere) to support high-school science students in engaging in collaborative reasoning and argumentation.We discuss how Belvedere is designed to support students' collaborative processes, describe our formative evaluation studies, and provide examples of student sessions.Reflecting on students' inter-actions with Belvedere and each other, we then discuss the competencies and limitations of students in developing scientific argumentation and reasoning, as distinguished from and supported by their practice of everyday argumentation..
Authors: Dan Suthers, Arlene Weiner
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2147003301