Productive arguments, in fact, are one of the things that appear to distinguish couples who stay together from those who split, according to research from several psychologists, including University of Washington psychology professor John Gottman, founder of the Gottman Institute, an organisation dedicated to studying and improving relationships.
A civilisation able to produce a Buddha, a Mahavira, a Mirabai, a Birsa Munda, an Amrita Sher-Gil, a Muhammad Iqbal, an Ambedkar and a Gandhi is a place open both to radical experiments with self-definition and productive arguments about what a country and its people should value.
What questions are generated by students during group discussions and how are these questions used in constructing productive arguments?
Chin and Osborne's (2010a) study was believed to be the first to examine and identify the characteristics of quality and productive arguments.
There are many research studies examining the use of students' questions as scaffolds to facilitate argument construction but more needs to be done to understand how these questions are used in generating productive arguments.
Table 2 A summary of data analysis for each research question Research question 1: What questions are generated by students during group discussions and how are these questions used in constructing productive arguments?
As such, in this research, we investigate (1) the types of students' questions generated within a group and how these questions are used in generating productive arguments and (2) strategies used by groups of students who are deemed more successful in generating convincing arguments.
Specifically, we wanted to find out (a) the types of students' questions generated within a group and how these questions were used in generating productive arguments and (b) the strategies used by groups of students who were more successful in generating persuasive arguments.
Others think that the productivity argument discriminates against the non-productive [ 47].
However, how productive are these arguments and the observations that stimulate them, if the focal point is consistently the outwardly appearance of hijab?
