Scripting collaborative argumentation can be effective in helping students understand multiple perspectives in complex, ill-defined domains. We have developed a web-based collaborative learning environment and a collaboration script to support students in discussing and analyzing controversial texts. We present a study in which we varied one element of the script to support critical, elaborative interactions, namely whether or not students take a proponent and/or critic role. Our results suggest that roles have a positive effect on the extent of knowledge elaboration in student discussions. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.
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Scheuer, O., McLaren, B. M., Weinberger, A., & Niebuhr, S. (2012). Scripting discussions for elaborative, critical interactions. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 7315 LNCS, pp. 647–648). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30950-2_103
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