Design and empirical research of critical thinking training model based on digital science argument mapping

As the core competence of modern learners, critical thinking, which is based on reasoning and evidence, is urgently needed by learners, so it is indispensable to help learners develop their critical thinking. The science argument mapping provides a new research direction and thinking perspective for the promotion of critical thinking, especially in daily classroom teaching, science argument mapping is used to support the training of learners’ critical thinking, to achieve the development of critical thinking. This study combines scientific argument map tools, argument teaching, curriculum teaching, and related theories to build a critical thinking training model based on a scientific argument map, and expounds on the model and the application of a scientific argument map. Meanwhile, this training model is verified through quasi-experimental research. The results show that the cultivation model based on a scientific argument map plays a positive role in promoting critical thinking ability and emotional tendency.