Measuring university students' ability to recognize argument structures and fallacies.

ABSTRACT:

Theory

Argumentation is crucial for all academic disciplines. Nevertheless, a lack of argumentation skills among students is evident. Two core aspects of argumentation are the recognition of argument structures (e.g., backing up claims with premises, according to the Toulmin model) and the recognition of fallacies. As both aspects may be related to content knowledge, students studying different subjects might exhibit different argumentation skills depending on whether the content is drawn from their own or from a foreign subject. Therefore, we developed an instrument to measure the recognition of both argument structures and fallacies among the groups of preservice teachers and business economics students in both their respective domains (pedagogy and economics), and a neutral doma

SUBMITTER: Berkle Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10730665 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature