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Peer reviewedScruggs, Thomas E.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1993
Fifty-three adolescents with learning disabilities or mild mental retardation were taught reasons for dinosaur extinction. Those taught in a mnemonic elaborative interrogation condition recalled more reasons than did students who received direct teaching. Students in elaborative interrogation and mnemonic elaborative interrogation groups recalled…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Dinosaurs, Discovery Learning, Inquiry
