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Argumentation As A Lens To Examine Student Discourse In Peer-Led Guided Inquiry For College General Chemistry, Ushiri Kumarihamy Kulatunga

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation work entails three related studies on the investigation of Peer-Led Guided Inquiry student discourse in a General Chemistry I course through argumentation. The first study, Argumentation and participation patterns in general chemistry peer-led sessions, is focused on examining arguments and participation patterns in small student groups without peer leader intervention. The findings of this study revealed that students were mostly engaged in co-constructed arguments, that a discrepancy in the participation of the group members existed, and students were able to correct most of the incorrect claims on their own via argumentation.

The second study, Exploration of peer leader …