TY  - RPRT
U1  - Arbeitspapier
A1  - Vargas, Francisco
A1  - Stenning, Keith
T1  - Communication, Goals, and Counterexamples in Syllogistic Reasoning.
N2  - We report on a study on syllogistic reasoning conceived with the idea that subjects' performance in experiments is highly dependent on the communicative situations in which the particular task is framed. From this perspective, we describe the results of Experiment 1 comparing the performance of undergraduate students in 5 different tasks. This between-subjects comparison inspires a within-subject intervention design (Experiment 2). The variations introduced on traditional experimental tasks and settings include two main dimensions. The first one focuses on reshaping the context (the pragmatics of the communication situations faced) along the dimension of cooperative vs. adversarial attitudes. The second one consists of rendering explicit the construction/representation of counterexamples, a crucial aspect in the definition of deduction (in the classical semantic sense). We obtain evidence on the possibility of a significant switch in students' performance and the strategies they follow. Syllogistic reasoning is seen here as a controlled microcosm informative enough to provide insights and we suggest strategies for wider contexts of reasoning, argumentation and proof.
KW  - empirische Studie
KW  - Mathematikdidaktik
KW  - syllogistic reasoning
KW  - subjects' performance in experiments
KW  - communicative situations
KW  - undergraduate students
KW  - reasoning,argumentation and proof
KW  - Studium
KW  - Argumentieren
KW  - Kommunikation
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.00028
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.00028
N1  - Abruf des Volltextes unter angegebener DOI.
IS  - Frontiers in Education, 17 April 2020
PB  - https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/education
ER  -