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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
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