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50 Years of ERIC
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"Could They Do It Differently?": Narrative and Argumentative Changes in Students' Writing Following Discussion of "Hot" Historical Issues
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Goldberg, Tsafrir; Schwarz, Baruch B.; Porat, Dan – Cognition and Instruction, 2011
A group of 64 Israeli twelfth-grade students of two different ethnic backgrounds participated in an experiment exploring the effects of argumentative design and social identity on the learning of a charged, ethnicity-related historical controversy. Students were divided into two learning conditions: an argumentative-disciplinary condition and a…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Textbooks, Essays, Foreign Countries
Two Wrongs May Make a Right...If They Argue Together!
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Schwarz, Baruch B.; Neuman, Yair; Biezuner, Sarit – Cognition and Instruction, 2000
Investigated the cognitive gains of interacting pairs of Grade 10 students who show low levels of competence and fail to solve a task individually but who improve when working in peer interaction. Found that this phenomenon may occur when the two students disagree, have different strategies, and active hypothesis testing is made possible. (JPB)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Class Activities, Cognitive Development, Educational Research
Reflective Processes in a Mathematics Classroom with a Rich Learning Environment.
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Hershkowitz, Rina; Schwarz, Baruch B. – Cognition and Instruction, 1999
Examined grade nine student reflection during mathematics problem-solving situations in which students worked individually, collaborated in small groups, subsequently wrote group reports, then engaged in a teacher-led discussion in which students reported on the process. Found that reporting was a social practice through which private artifacts…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Grade 9, Group Discussion
Seeing the Problem: An Explanation from Polya.
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Leinhardt, Gaea; Schwarz, Baruch B. – Cognition and Instruction, 1997
Examines guessing as a heuristic for problem-solving presented in a taped lesson by George Polya. Analogical models transformed a complex problem to a simpler one and maintained problem identification. Instructional explanations fulfilled two goals simultaneously: (1) teach students how to use guessing as a problem-solving strategy to solve the…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Guessing (Tests), Mathematics Instruction, Metacognition