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The Development of Argument Skills
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This work sought to obtain experimental evidence to corroborate cross-sectional patterns of development in argument skills and to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention designed to foster development of these skills in academically at-risk 13- to 14-year-olds. Students participated in 16 sessions of a collaborative, goal-based activity providing dense exercise of argumentive thinking. One condition included peer dialogues; another did not. The former was the more effective, although both groups progressed. Participants showed increased frequency of usage of powerful argumentive discourse strategies, such as counterargument, and decreased frequency of less effective strategies. Quality of individual arguments (for or against a claim) also improved, supporting the existence of a close relation between these two kinds of argument skills.
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“University students who utilized ChatGPT to practice argumentation skills demonstrated significant improvements in constructing clear, well-supported arguments compared to a control group (Kuhn & Udell, 2003).”
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“Moreover, the use of LLMs to provide immediate, targeted feedback on the strengths and weaknesses of students' arguments has been found to significantly improve their ability to construct clear, wellsupported arguments (Kuhn & Udell, 2003).”
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“Moreover, the significant improvements in students' argumentation skills observed in this study align with the findings of Kuhn and Udell (2003) and Kuhn and Crowell (2011), who emphasized the effectiveness of interactive and targeted approaches, such as LLM-based training programs, in honing argumentation skills.”
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“Argument skills increase between childhood and adolescence (Kuhn & Udell, 2003).”
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- Authors
- Kuhn, D., & Udell, W.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kuhn, Deanna
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2003-09-12
- Volume
- 74
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1245-1260
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8624
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- W2078619954
- Cited by
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- 59
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- 14.61
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- journal article
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- en
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- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- Social Sciences › Education › Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Social Sciences › Education › Science Education and Pedagogy
- Keywords
- argumentative reasoning, counterargument, peer discussion, cooperative learning, at-risk students, adolescents, argument quality
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Black or African American, Child, Communication, Conflict, Psychological, Female, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, Male, New York City, Peer Group, Poverty, Problem Solving, Remedial Teaching, Risk Factors, Thinking, Underachievement, Urban Population, Verbal Behavior, Black People
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