COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ARGUMENTATION IN SCIENCE EDUCATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IFE 6025 ARGUMENTATION IN SCIENCE EDUCATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Science Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR GÜL ÜNAL ÇOBAN

Offered to

Science Teacher Education

Course Objective

Being able to produce original arguments and analyse them in order to produce scientific knowledge.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understanding the place and importance of argumentation in science education.
2   Understand the role of argumentation in scientific knowledge production and its foundations.
3   Designing learning environments to help development argumentation skills
4   Revealing the reasoning behind the argument.
5   Understanding the social context of arguments.
6   Using technology to support argumentation.Understanding problems of science education.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The nature and purpose of science education The place of argumentation in science and science education
2 Cognitive Foundations of Learning Argumentation
3 Methodological Foundations in The Study of Argumentation
4 Argumentation and Epistemology
5 How to design argumentation learning environments
6 Examining the students argumentation learning environments
7 What does an argument tell us The reasoning behind the arguments: sample arguments
8 Analysing students arguments
9 Mid-term exam
10 Social Aspects of Argumentation
11 Analysis of Written and Discourse Argumentations as assessment tools
12 Argumentation in Socioscientific Contexts
13 Technology Enhanced Learning Environments to Support Students Argumentation
14 Students studies on argumentation materials
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbooks:
Erduran, S.; Aleixandre, M. J. (2008) Argumentation in science education : perspectives from classroom-based research. Dordrecht, NL : Springer

References:
Bell, P., & Linn, M. C. (2000). Scientific arguments as learning artifacts: Designing for learning from the web with KIE, International Journal of Science Education, 22, 797 817.
Driver, R., P. Newton, and J. Osborne. (2000). Establishing the norms of scientific argumentation in classrooms. Science Education 84 (3), 287 313.
Erduran, S. ; Simon, S and Osborne, J (2004). TAPping into Argumentation: developments in the application of Toulmin s Argument Pattern for studying science discourse, Science Education, 88 (6), 915-933.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentations, group discussions, brain storming, document analysis, case analysis.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FCG * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

The homeworks will be assessed by directly adding to the mid-term scores. The exam dates will be indicated in the lesson plan. As the exam dates become definite, the previously announced dates may change.

Assessment Criteria

In-class participation and written homework, end-of-semester final homework and short report presentation.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1.It is obligated to continue to at least 70% of lessons .
2. Behaviours such as copying in exams, clashing and making intials in the publications will be concluded with the opening of a disciplinary investigation.
3.The instructor has right to make quizzes. The scores obtained from quizzes will be directly added to exam scores.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

gul.unal@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

weekdays-working hours

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 6 78
Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Preparing assignments 13 5 65
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 198

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.1434
LO.2434
LO.3434
LO.4434
LO.5434
LO.6434

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