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Scientific Reasoning of Students with Mild Mental Retardation: Investigating Preconceptions and Conceptual Change.
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Scruggs, Thomas E.; And Others – Exceptionality, 1995
Scientific reasoning of four elementary age students with mild mental retardation was investigated using structured interviews during tasks involving properties of air and electricity. Discourse analysis was employed to describe students' preconceptions about the natural world and how those preconceptions might be influenced by empirical evidence.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Restructuring, Concept Formation
Promoting Thinking Skills of Students with Learning Disabilities: Effects on Recall and Comprehension of Expository Prose.
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Mastropieri, Margo A.; And Others – Exceptionality, 1996
Seventh- and eighth-grade students with learning disabilities (n=29) who reasoned through factual prose sentences did not recall more information than students who were prompted to try to remember the content after each sentence. However, students trained in thinking skills produced more correct explanations of the information than control…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities
Reflections on "Promoting Thinking Skills of Students with Learning Disabilities: Effects on Recall and Comprehension of Expository Prose."
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Mastropieri, Margo A.; Scruggs, Thomas E. – Exceptionality, 1996
This discussion of fostering recall and developing reasoning processes in students with mild disabilities considers the role of mnemonic strategies, similarities between mnemonic strategies and elaborative interrogation to facilitate information retrieval, constructivism and elaborative interrogation, and such problems as generalization and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Secondary Education, Generalization
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