We designed scaffolded tasks that targeted the skill of identifying reasoning errors and conducted a study with 472 middle school students. The study results showed a small positive impact of the scaffolding on student performance on one topic, but not the other, indicating that student skills of writing critiques could be affected by the topic and argument content. Additionally, students from low-SES families did not perform as well as their peers. Student performance on the critique tasks had moderate or strong correlations with students’ state reading and writing test scores. Implications of the scaffolding and critique task design are discussed.

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探讨脚手架设计对学生辩论批评技巧的影响

我们设计了针对识别推理错误的技能的支架式任务，并对 472 名中学生进行了研究。研究结果表明，脚手架对学生在一个主题上的表现有很小的积极影响，但对另一个主题没有影响，这表明学生撰写评论的技巧可能会受到主题和论点内容的影响。此外，来自低 SES 家庭的学生表现不如同龄人。学生在批评任务上的表现与学生的状态阅读和写作考试成绩有中度或强相关性。讨论了脚手架和批评任务设计的含义。