The need to enhance argument skills through education has become increasingly evident
during the past 20 years. This need has resulted in an ongoing discussion that focuses on …

Less than it is an individual ability or skill, critical thinking is a dialogic practice people
engage in and commit to, initially interactively and then in interiorized form with the other …

The concept of science as argument, and the view that engaging in scientific argumentation
should play a key role in science education, has become widely endorsed. The case is …

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar el estatus de la investigación sobre la competencia
argumentativa dentro del ámbito educativo. Para ello se consideran diferentes propuestas …

We note the development of the widely employed but loosely defined construct of critical
thinking from its earliest instantiations as a measure of individual ability to its current status …

Critical thinking is one of the important higher-order skills very much treasured in education,
but hard to be measured using paper-pencil tests. In line with recent recommendation to …

In this paper, we describe an effort to develop and evaluate an innovative formative
assessment to gather evidence about middle school students' argumentation skills …

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive literature review on the development of key
argumentation skills to lay a foundation for a framework of the key practice, discuss and …

Treating creationism as a controversial topic within the science and religion issue in the
science classroom has been widely discussed in the recent literature. Some researchers …

Writing and assessing arguments are important skills and there is evidence that using
rubrics to assess the arguments of others can help students write better arguments. Thus …