Writing to Learn by Learning to Write during the School Science Laboratory: Helping Middle and High School Students Develop Argumentative Writing Skills as They Learn Core Ideas

Autor/inn/en	Sampson, Victor; Enderle, Patrick; Grooms, Jonathon; Witte, Shelbie
Titel	Writing to Learn by Learning to Write during the School Science Laboratory: Helping Middle and High School Students Develop Argumentative Writing Skills as They Learn Core Ideas
Quelle	In: Science Education, 97 (2013) 5, S.643-670 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
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Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-8326
DOI	10.1002/sce.21069
Schlagwörter	Secondary School Science; Middle School Students; High School Students; Content Area Writing; Science Instruction; Persuasive Discourse; Science Laboratories; Inquiry; Intervention; Achievement Gains; Science Achievement; Writing Skills; Teaching Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin; Schriftliche Übung; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Achievement gain; Leistungssteigerung; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	This study examined how students' science-specific argumentative writing skills and understanding of core ideas changed over the course of a school year as they participated in a series of science laboratories designed using the Argument-Driven Inquiry (ADI) instructional model. The ADI model is a student-centered and writing-intensive approach to laboratory instruction. The study was conducted in two middle school and two high school courses offered at a university-affiliated laboratory school located in the southeast USA. The intervention took place over two semesters and consisted of at least eight laboratory activities in each course. Student learning gains were measured using a science content assessment and a science-specific argumentative writing assessment that were administered at the beginning, middle, and end of the school year. Changes in student performance on the two assessments over time indicate that the students' science-specific argumentative writing skills and their understanding of core scientific ideas improved over the course of intervention. Furthermore, students who participated in a greater number of ADI activities demonstrated greater and more consistent improvement in their writing. The implications of the study describe ways to enhance students' science proficiencies during school science laboratories and include recommendations for future research. (As Provided).
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