TY - GEN
T1 - The Role of Causal Inferences in Everyday Reasoning
T2 - 18th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2024
AU - Dubovi, Ilana
AU - Pelles-Avraham, Sharon
AU - Visel, Tair
AU - Kashi, Adi
AU - Haskel-Ittah, Michal
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© ISLS.
PY - 2024/1/1
Y1 - 2024/1/1
N2 - Science education increasingly aims to prepare all learners for civic participation in a quantified digital‐ and science-infused world. To inform how educational experiences and curricula should be designed, the current study explored cancer patients as a locus for scientific practices. The patients were asked to reason about medical information related to the chemotherapy treatment they received and to fill out self-reports on their self-efficacy and engagement in decisions related to their own disease and its treatment. Our findings revealed that the most common scientific practice involved was causal inferences, which in turn had a significant impact on patients' self-efficacy and engagement in their own disease management. These findings suggest that direct evaluation of medical information using causal reasoning is important for everyday science literacy. Importantly, causal reasoning is associated with everyday functioning and behavior, which underlines the importance of further research on causal reasoning structures.
AB - Science education increasingly aims to prepare all learners for civic participation in a quantified digital‐ and science-infused world. To inform how educational experiences and curricula should be designed, the current study explored cancer patients as a locus for scientific practices. The patients were asked to reason about medical information related to the chemotherapy treatment they received and to fill out self-reports on their self-efficacy and engagement in decisions related to their own disease and its treatment. Our findings revealed that the most common scientific practice involved was causal inferences, which in turn had a significant impact on patients' self-efficacy and engagement in their own disease management. These findings suggest that direct evaluation of medical information using causal reasoning is important for everyday science literacy. Importantly, causal reasoning is associated with everyday functioning and behavior, which underlines the importance of further research on causal reasoning structures.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105005829985
T3 - Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL
SP - 1031
EP - 1034
BT - ISLS Annual Meeting 2024
A2 - Lindgren, Robb
A2 - Asino, Tutaleni
A2 - Kyza, Eleni A.
A2 - Looi, Chee-Kit
A2 - Keifert, D. Teo
A2 - Suarez, Enrique
PB - International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)
Y2 - 10 June 2024 through 14 June 2024
ER -
