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Emergence of argumentation in elementary science classrooms

2020· article· en· W4365996544 on OpenAlexaffabout
Qingna Jin, Mijung Kim

Bibliographic record

VenueDOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducation and Critical Thinking Development
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArgumentation theoryMathematics educationScience educationComputer sciencePedagogySociologyPsychologyEpistemologyPhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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Scientific argumentation can emerge naturally and spontaneously where students with diverse backgrounds and knowledge interact in classrooms. As research on argumentation as an emergent phenomenon has been limited in school science education, this paper particularly aims to understand how elementary students’ argumentation emerges and develops through problem solving process. A qualitative case study was conducted in a fifth-/sixth- grade science classroom in Canada over a 4-month period. Data resource included classroom video recording, interviews, and artifacts from classroom activities. It was found that student argumentation often occurred spontaneously when students explicitly questioned about the rationales of each other’s’ ideas. Teacher scaffolding in problem-solving contexts and students’ appreciation of peers’ different ideas in collaborative contexts positively influenced scientific argumentation to emerge and develop.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.025
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.039

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.025
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.008
Scholarly communication0.0080.003
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.345
GPT teacher head0.615
Teacher spread0.270 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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