TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessment of students’ understanding of physical phenomena through argumentative qualities of written texts
AU - Durango-Urrego, John Henry
AU - Castro, Walter F.
AU - Goizueta, Manuel
AU - López, Carlos Mario Jaramillo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - We present a qualitative study aimed at devising a theoretical-methodological tool to assess students’ conceptual understanding of physical phenomena through the argumentative qualities of their written texts. The proposed relationship between argumentation and understanding is elaborated through the notions of knowledge, purposes, methods, and communicative forms, as well as the use of data, warrants, modal qualifiers, claims, and rhetorical resources. In order to exemplify the tool’s use, the current understanding of six students attending a physics seedbed course was assessed according to four levels: naïve, novice, apprentice, and mastery.
AB - We present a qualitative study aimed at devising a theoretical-methodological tool to assess students’ conceptual understanding of physical phenomena through the argumentative qualities of their written texts. The proposed relationship between argumentation and understanding is elaborated through the notions of knowledge, purposes, methods, and communicative forms, as well as the use of data, warrants, modal qualifiers, claims, and rhetorical resources. In order to exemplify the tool’s use, the current understanding of six students attending a physics seedbed course was assessed according to four levels: naïve, novice, apprentice, and mastery.
KW - argumentation
KW - free fall
KW - sound wave propagation
KW - teaching of physics
KW - understanding assessment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85150252779&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.29333/ejmste/12993
DO - 10.29333/ejmste/12993
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85150252779
SN - 1305-8215
VL - 19
JO - Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education
JF - Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education
IS - 3
M1 - em2239
ER -