Fostering university freshmen’s mathematical argumentation skills with collaboration scripts

Students often have problems formulating und using arguments in mathematical contexts. Therefore, we investigated to what extent a collaboration script helps students overcome their problems and acquire mathematical argumentation skills. In two previous studies, we showed that collaboration scripts...

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Main Authors: Vogel, Freydis, Kollar, Ingo, Ufer, Stefan, Reiss, Kristina, Fischer, Frank
Other Authors: Looi, Chee-Kit
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Published: International Society of the Learning Sciences 2016
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author Vogel, Freydis
Kollar, Ingo
Ufer, Stefan
Reiss, Kristina
Fischer, Frank
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description Students often have problems formulating und using arguments in mathematical contexts. Therefore, we investigated to what extent a collaboration script helps students overcome their problems and acquire mathematical argumentation skills. In two previous studies, we showed that collaboration scripts can have positive effects on learning cross-domain argumentation skills in the mathematical context. Yet, the effectiveness of the script depended on individual prerequisites such as final high school grade (GPA) and self-regulation skills. In this study, N = 96 participants learned in one of three script conditions. We found that a high-structured domain-general collaboration script for argumentation was more effective for acquiring domain-specific mathematical argumentation skills than a low-structured or an adaptable one. Furthermore, only in the condition with the low-structured script, learners’ self-regulated learning skills played an important role for the learning outcomes.
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spelling nottingham-526892020-05-04T17:54:19Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52689/ Fostering university freshmen’s mathematical argumentation skills with collaboration scripts Vogel, Freydis Kollar, Ingo Ufer, Stefan Reiss, Kristina Fischer, Frank Students often have problems formulating und using arguments in mathematical contexts. Therefore, we investigated to what extent a collaboration script helps students overcome their problems and acquire mathematical argumentation skills. In two previous studies, we showed that collaboration scripts can have positive effects on learning cross-domain argumentation skills in the mathematical context. Yet, the effectiveness of the script depended on individual prerequisites such as final high school grade (GPA) and self-regulation skills. In this study, N = 96 participants learned in one of three script conditions. We found that a high-structured domain-general collaboration script for argumentation was more effective for acquiring domain-specific mathematical argumentation skills than a low-structured or an adaptable one. Furthermore, only in the condition with the low-structured script, learners’ self-regulated learning skills played an important role for the learning outcomes. International Society of the Learning Sciences Looi, Chee-Kit Polman, Joseph Cress, Ulrike Reimann, Peter 2016-07-01 Book Section PeerReviewed Vogel, Freydis, Kollar, Ingo, Ufer, Stefan, Reiss, Kristina and Fischer, Frank (2016) Fostering university freshmen’s mathematical argumentation skills with collaboration scripts. In: Transforming Learning, Empowering Learners: The International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2016. International Society of the Learning Sciences, Singapore, pp. 599-606. ISBN 9780990355090 Mathematics; Argumentation; Collaboration scripts https://www.isls.org/icls/2016/docs/ICLS2016_Volume_1_30June2016.pdf https://repository.isls.org/handle/1/168 https://repository.isls.org/handle/1/168
spellingShingle Mathematics; Argumentation; Collaboration scripts
Vogel, Freydis
Kollar, Ingo
Ufer, Stefan
Reiss, Kristina
Fischer, Frank
Fostering university freshmen’s mathematical argumentation skills with collaboration scripts
title Fostering university freshmen’s mathematical argumentation skills with collaboration scripts
title_full Fostering university freshmen’s mathematical argumentation skills with collaboration scripts
title_fullStr Fostering university freshmen’s mathematical argumentation skills with collaboration scripts
title_full_unstemmed Fostering university freshmen’s mathematical argumentation skills with collaboration scripts
title_short Fostering university freshmen’s mathematical argumentation skills with collaboration scripts
title_sort fostering university freshmen’s mathematical argumentation skills with collaboration scripts
topic Mathematics; Argumentation; Collaboration scripts
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