Learning objective 6-2: Reasoning
Students will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to:
- identify and describe reasoned arguments.
Indicators
- Identifies the main point or conclusion of an argument.
- Describes the reasons given to support the main point or conclusion of different arguments.
- Describes how good the reasons are that support a conclusion.
Possible context elaborations
- Select a conclusion derived from an everyday argument. For example, ‘If you go to your local school and work hard, then you will get a good job.’ Conclusion: ‘You should work hard at school.’
- Identify reasons given in support of a conclusion, and any unsupported points in the argument. For example, in the above argument, ‘local’ and ‘good’ are unsupported.
- Identify arguments where the given reasons genuinely support the conclusions, and where they do not. For examples, see the
Molloy College website.
Assessment for qualifications
See
NCEA assessment: level 1 for suggestions of achievement standards and unit standards that could be used to assess this learning.
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Last updated October 24, 2011
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