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Download full textParker, Walter C.; And Others – 1987
Twenty-four eleventh grade students attending a month-long, summer civic-leadership institute in a Pacific Northwest city participated in a study that examined their dialectical reasoning on civic issues. This reasoning was elicited through written scaffolding, with students guided explicitly to compose essays arguing for or against a position on…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Citizenship, Civics, Content Analysis
