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Peer reviewedIngram, E.; Johnson, E. G. – Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 1987
A comparison of 28 mildly mentally retarded children with 28 children of average intelligence (mean mental age six years) in learning conservation skills found both groups benefited from Direct Instruction methods, but retarded children acquired only pseudoconservation from Observational Learning methods. Their learning was not tenacious and did…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept), Generalization
