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Article: Explanatory Style as a Predictor of College Performance In Students with Physical Disabilities.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Rehabilitation
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Attempts to modify the school environment to enhance the educational experience for students with physical disabilities have thus far been largely unsuccessful. For example, placing such students in a mainstreamed setting (Education Response Centre of the Alberta Department of Education, 1990) and the introduction of cooperative learning techniques into the curricula (Tateyama-Sniezek, 1990) have yielded inconclusive results and unimpressive success. Perhaps increased focus should be placed on more basic psychological characteristics of the individual, such as explanatory style.
Explanatory style refers to the manner in which an individual habitually explains to ...