A Comparison Of The Individual and Group Arguments Of High School Students

Year 2017, Volume: 25 Issue: 5, 1865 - 1880, 15.09.2017

Ayşe Yalçın Çelik Ziya Kılıç

Abstract

This study aims to reveal how and why the quality of high school students’ group arguments
differ from the quality of their individual arguments for the chemistry curriculum topic of gases.
This mixed-method study was conducted with 22 tenth-grade students between 13 and 15 years
of age. The duration of the study was eight weeks. The data were collected from the evaluation
of the written argumentation activities completed individually or as a group according to the
argumentation level and argumentation score rubric and content analysis of each activity
paper. The quality of the arguments of groups working in cooperation was found to be higher
than that of the individual arguments, and this difference was found to be affected by two
factors: individual effect and group effect.

Keywords

argumentation quality, collaboration, individual argumentation, group argumentation

Lise Öğrencilerinin Bireysel ve Grup Argümanlarının Kalitesinin Karşılaştırılması

Abstract

Bu araştırmada, lise öğrencilerinin gazlar ünitesinde gerçekleştirdikleri grup argümanların
kalitesinin bireysel argümanların kalitesinden nasıl farklılaştığını ve bu farklılığın sebebini
ortaya koymak amaçlanmıştır. Karma araştırma yaklaşımına sahip araştırmaya 10. sınıflardan
yaşları 13-15 arasında değişen 22 öğrenci katılmıştır. Araştırma; toplamda sekiz hafta
sürmüştür. Araştırma verileri, katılımcılar tarafından tamamlanan yazılı argümantasyon
etkinliklerinin içerik analizinden elde edilmiştir. Bu etkinlik kâğıtları argümantasyon seviyesi ve
argümantasyon puanı rubriğine göre değerlendirilerek grup ve bireysel argümanların seviyeleri
belirlenmiştir. Sonuçlara göre işbirliği içindeki gruplarda gerçekleştirilen argümanların
kalitesinin bireysel argümanlardan daha kaliteli olduğu ve bu farklılığa bireysel etki ve grup
etkisi olarak adlandırılan iki faktörün etki ettiği belirlenmiştir. 

Keywords

argümantasyon kalitesi, işbirliği, bireysel argüman, grup argümanları

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