I've been skeptical about claims for various approaches to teaching critical thinking,
including those for argument maps coming from nearby University of Melbourne. Indeed,
confident in our skepticism, we at Monash Philosophy accepted a challenge to compare ...

This article investigates to what extent computer-supported argument visualization can be
designed to encourage debate and deliberation by citizens on public issues. Such argument
maps use icons and arrows to represent the structure of a series of related viewpoints, ...

A fully web-enabled method for diagrammatically representing the meaningful structure of a
complex argument or debate, or other similar information, as a schematic map made up of
nodes each of which represent a discrete element in said meaningful structure comprising ...

... The typical argument map is a “box and arrows” diagram in which the nodes correspond
to claims and the links indicate their evidential relationships. Argument mapping is the
activity of producing (or, more generally, using) argument maps. ...

... Discussion Area To help support, critique, and recognize anoma- lies, the Discussion Area
features argument maps dis- playing disagreements, questions, and lines of reasoning. ...
27 Fig. 2. MFK: The Discussion Area Displaying Argument Maps. ...

... Keywords critical thinking, reasoning, argument, practice, transfer, argument maps, evaluation,
pre & post-testing ... One key innovation in Reason!Able is that all reasoning activities are conducted
in specially- designed flowchart-like diagrams called argument maps or trees. ...

... Results indicated that participants who studied the argument maps scored higher than those
who studied text, on tests of memory, though not comprehension, and that participants had more
difficulty assimilating the large (50 bit) argument in the time allotted. ...

... He traced the causal assertions in managers' thinking during the rise and fall of the
organization, and claimed that a critical set of causal links was neglected and led to the
fmal demise of the firm. Argument maps are similar to causal maps. ...

... Where images and topics are the main feature of associative connections in mind
maps, and concepts are the main relationships in concept maps, inferences between
whole propositions are the key feature of argument maps. ...

... It is a knowledge representa- tion tool that allows for the coordination of claims (boxes) and
evi- dence (dots) to create parsimonious argument maps. ... The SenseMaker argument maps
were a novel representation from the perspective of the students. ...