Experimental evidence shows that in dedicated Critical Thinking courses “Lots of Argument Mapping Practice” (LAMP) using a software tool like Rationale considerably improves students’ critical thinking skills. We believe that teaching with LAMP has additional cognitive and pedagogical benefits, even outside dedicated Critical Thinking subjects. Students learn to better understand and critique arguments, improve in their reading and writing, become clearer in their thinking and, perhaps, even gain meta-cognitive skills that ultimately make them better learners. We discuss some of the evidence for these claims, explain how, as we believe, LAMP confers these benefits, and call for proper experimental and educational research.
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Rider, Y., & Thomason, N. (2014). Cognitive and pedagogical benefits of argument mapping: L.A.M.P. guides the way to better thinking. In Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing (pp. 113–134). Springer London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6470-8_6
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