The practice of reasoning and argumentation skills as determinants of the score on science, math and reading areas in PISA La práctica de las habilidades de razonamiento y argumentación como determinantes del puntaje de las áreas de ciencias, matemáticas y lectura de la prueba PISA Academic Article in Scopus

© 2019, Beijing Science Education Innovation center. All rights reserved.Literature suggests that there is a wide group of determinants of the PISA standardized test scores. Reasoning and argumentation skills are one of the less studied. Using a multiple linear regression estimation, this article proves the impact that the use of this type of strategies has on the academic performance indexes in reading, mathematics and science in the PISA test for Mexico. The sociodemographic variables of the student, the socioeconomic variables of the household and the school variables were also included as control variables. The results show that the use of argumentation strategy has a greater impact for all tests, increasing the average score in the math test by 13 points. This confirms the importance of the reasoning and argumentation skills in the measurement of academic performance.

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