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<p>This paper focuses on student texts produced in the context of material based writing and presents a text analysis grid which is developed in an interdisciplinary research project between the didactics of geography and of German language. Based on a critical discussion of the typical methodological procedures that are currently used in research to evaluate the quality of written argumentations, we argue that only a <italic>combination</italic> of structural, linguistic and content-related analysis steps can determine the quality of argumentative texts as a whole. Hence, there is a particular need for development in text product analysis with regard to linking the various aspects. We therefore propose a catalogue of criteria, which is interdisciplinarily theory-guided and enables a quantitative and qualitative in-depth-analysis of text products on multiple levels: content-related, structural, linguistic and material-related with special consideration of the multiple document input.</p>
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This paper focuses on student texts produced in the context of material based writing and presents a text analysis grid which is developed in an interdisciplinary research project between the didactics of geography and of German language. Based on a critical discussion of the typical methodological procedures that are currently used in research to evaluate the quality of written argumentations, we argue that only a combination of structural, linguistic and content-related analysis steps can determine the quality of argumentative texts as a whole. Hence, there is a particular need for development in text product analysis with regard to linking the various aspects. We therefore propose a catalogue of criteria, which is interdisciplinarily theory-guided and enables a quantitative and qualitative in-depth-analysis of text products on multiple levels: content-related, structural, linguistic and material-related with special consideration of the multiple document input.

Student texts produced in the context of material-based argumentative writing: Interdisciplinary research-related conception of an evaluation tool

Research in Subject-matter Teaching and Learning (RISTAL)

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This paper focuses on student texts produced in the context of material based writing and presents a text analysis grid which is developed in an...

Student texts produced in the context of material-based argumentative writing: Interdisciplinary research-related conception of an evaluation tool

Publié en ligne: 11 juil. 2022

Pages: 108 - 125

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23770/rt1837

Mots clés
argumentation, text analysis grid, material-based writing, evaluation

© 2022 Alexandra Budke et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Student texts produced in the context of material-based argumentative writing: Interdisciplinary research-related conception of an evaluation tool

Publié en ligne: 11 juil. 2022

Pages: 108 - 125

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23770/rt1837

Mots clésargumentation, text analysis grid, material-based writing, evaluation

© 2022 Alexandra Budke et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
argumentation, text analysis grid, material-based writing, evaluation