ByrdNick, 3 months ago to Logic

If mapping arguments improves critical thinking, then argument mapping skills should correlate with critical thinking skills, right?

Alas, they didn't correlate among 115 Advanced Placement students across 4 high schools who mapped arguments for universal basic income (from a Douglas Murray article).

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Pages 18 and 19 explaining the critical thinking test and assigned reading by Douglas Murray.
An example of a student's scored argument map (Figure 5a).
Pages 46 and 47 showing correlations between critical thinking test scores and each argument mapping score.

DailyNous, 9 months ago to random

“Argument mapping is about twice as effective at improving student critical thinking as other methods [but] there are obstacles preventing philosophy teachers from adopting it.” A new app helps. https://dailynous.com/2023/07/28/an-accessible-and-user-friendly-argument-mapping-app-guest-post/