Test Accommodations and Positive affect among Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: The Mediating Role of Attitudes, Academic Self-efficacy, Loneliness and Hope
The growing number of students with Learning Disabilities (LD) who are granted test accommodations raises many theoretical questions with educational implications. The aim of the current study is to examine levels of positive affect as an indicator of wellbeing among students with LD who receive tes...
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| description | The growing number of students with Learning Disabilities (LD) who are granted test accommodations raises many theoretical questions with educational implications. The aim of the current study is to examine levels of positive affect as an indicator of wellbeing among students with LD who receive test accommodations and to identify the mediating role of personal resources such as academic self-efficacy, hope, attitudes towards test accommodations and loneliness. Two groups of junior high school students (157 students with LD and 278 typical development peers) completed questionnaires about their attitudes towards test accommodations, their positive affect, academic self-efficacy, loneliness and hope. Results indicate that students with LD who are entitled to test accommodations reported lower levels of academic self-efficacy, hope and positive affect compared to their typical development peers. A serial multiple mediation analysis demonstrates that personal resources as well as attitudes fully mediated the relations between receiving such accommodations and positive affect. This study offers unique, though preliminary, findings about the important relations between receiving test accommodations and attitudes about them, positive affect and personal resources by providing a deeper look at the complexity of the relations between the factors that predict students’ wellbeing. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9b3aa7027df74e819789993bb7848ccb2022-12-21T19:19:19ZengAthens Institute for Education and ResearchAthens Journal of Education2241-79582018-11-0154345360https://doi.org/10.30958/aje.5-4-1Test Accommodations and Positive affect among Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: The Mediating Role of Attitudes, Academic Self-efficacy, Loneliness and HopeMichal Einav0Adi Sharabi1Tal Even-hen Peter2Malka Margalit3Senior Lecturer and Head of the Graduate Program of Educational Psychology in Peres Academic Centre, and Adjunct Lecturer at Tel Aviv - Yaffa Academic College, IsraelHead, Department of Special Education, Kibbutzim College of Education Technology & The Arts, Tel-Aviv, IsraelEducational Psychologist, Ashdod Psych-educational Services, and Peres Academic Centre, IsraelProfessor, Dean, School of Behavioral Sciences, Peres Academic Center; Professor Emeritus, Constantiner School of Education, Tel-Aviv University, IsraelThe growing number of students with Learning Disabilities (LD) who are granted test accommodations raises many theoretical questions with educational implications. The aim of the current study is to examine levels of positive affect as an indicator of wellbeing among students with LD who receive test accommodations and to identify the mediating role of personal resources such as academic self-efficacy, hope, attitudes towards test accommodations and loneliness. Two groups of junior high school students (157 students with LD and 278 typical development peers) completed questionnaires about their attitudes towards test accommodations, their positive affect, academic self-efficacy, loneliness and hope. Results indicate that students with LD who are entitled to test accommodations reported lower levels of academic self-efficacy, hope and positive affect compared to their typical development peers. A serial multiple mediation analysis demonstrates that personal resources as well as attitudes fully mediated the relations between receiving such accommodations and positive affect. This study offers unique, though preliminary, findings about the important relations between receiving test accommodations and attitudes about them, positive affect and personal resources by providing a deeper look at the complexity of the relations between the factors that predict students’ wellbeing.http://www.athensjournals.gr/education/2018-5-4-1-Einav.pdfacademic self-efficacyaccommodationshopelearning-disabilitiesloneliness |
| spellingShingle | Michal Einav Adi Sharabi Tal Even-hen Peter Malka Margalit Test Accommodations and Positive affect among Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: The Mediating Role of Attitudes, Academic Self-efficacy, Loneliness and Hope Athens Journal of Education academic self-efficacy accommodations hope learning-disabilities loneliness |
| title | Test Accommodations and Positive affect among Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: The Mediating Role of Attitudes, Academic Self-efficacy, Loneliness and Hope |
| title_full | Test Accommodations and Positive affect among Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: The Mediating Role of Attitudes, Academic Self-efficacy, Loneliness and Hope |
| title_fullStr | Test Accommodations and Positive affect among Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: The Mediating Role of Attitudes, Academic Self-efficacy, Loneliness and Hope |
| title_full_unstemmed | Test Accommodations and Positive affect among Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: The Mediating Role of Attitudes, Academic Self-efficacy, Loneliness and Hope |
| title_short | Test Accommodations and Positive affect among Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: The Mediating Role of Attitudes, Academic Self-efficacy, Loneliness and Hope |
| title_sort | test accommodations and positive affect among adolescents with learning disabilities the mediating role of attitudes academic self efficacy loneliness and hope |
| topic | academic self-efficacy accommodations hope learning-disabilities loneliness |
| url | http://www.athensjournals.gr/education/2018-5-4-1-Einav.pdf |
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