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Reflections on "Scientific Reasoning of Students with Mild Mental Retardation: Investigating Preconceptions and Conceptual Change."
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Scruggs, Thomas E.; Mastropieri, Margo A. – Exceptionality, 1995
Perspectives that underlie a study of scientific reasoning of elementary students with mild mental retardation (EC 612 096) are provided. Epistemological issues that appear to shape knowledge of special education are addressed, specifically "constructivism" versus "behaviorism" and the relative worth of "constructed" versus "instructed" knowledge.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Restructuring