ByrdNick, 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.
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