The relative effects of university success courses and individualized interventions for students with learning disabilities
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Little is known about the relative effects of post‐secondary learning services for students with learning disabilities. We compared outcomes for students with learning disabilities who selected to: (1) take an academic learning success course (course‐intervention), (2) have regular individual interventions (high‐intervention) or (3) use services only as needed (low‐intervention). Pre‐ and post‐test comparisons revealed improvements in academic self‐efficacy and academic resourcefulness for students in the course‐ and high‐intervention groups. The course‐intervention group also showed decreases in their failure attributions to bad luck and increases in their general repertoire of learned resourcefulness skills in comparison to the high‐intervention group and had significantly higher year‐end GPAs in comparison to the low‐intervention group. Here we find positive outcomes for students with learning disabilities taking a course that teaches post‐secondary learning and academic skills.
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Other interventions were reported to improve self-efficacy and academic resourcefulness, as well as self-efficacy and future orientation.
“Other interventions were reported to improve self-ef fi cacy andacademicresourcefulness (Reed et al., 2009) as well as selfef fi cacy and future orientation (Pearlman-Avnion, 2016).”
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- Authors
- Reed, M. J., Kennett, D. J., Lewis, T., Lund‐Lucas, E., Stallberg, C., & Newbold, I. L.
- Affiliations
- Toronto Metropolitan University (CA)
- Trent University (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Reed, Maureen J.
- Venue
- Higher Education Research & Development
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2009-08
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 385-400
- ISSN
- 0729-4360 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8366
- OpenAlex
- W2087811788
- Cited by
- 51
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 7.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Higher Education Research & Development (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Government of Ontario
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Disability Education and Employment
- Social Sciences › Education › Higher Education Research Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
- Keywords
- learning disabilities, personalized interventions, academic self-efficacy, failure attribution, academic performance, GPA
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