Test Accommodations and Positive Affect among Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: The Mediating Role of Attitudes, Academic Self-Efficacy, Loneliness and Hope

Autor/inn/en	Einav, Michal; Sharabi, Adi; Peter, Tal Even-hen; Margalit, Malka
Titel	Test Accommodations and Positive Affect among Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: The Mediating Role of Attitudes, Academic Self-Efficacy, Loneliness and Hope
Quelle	In: Athens Journal of Education, 5 (2018) 4, S.345-360 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2407-9898
Schlagwörter	Testing Accommodations; Instructional Effectiveness; Adolescents; Learning Disabilities; Self Efficacy; Psychological Patterns; Well Being; Junior High School Students; Grade 7; Grade 8; Grade 9; Foreign Countries; Positive Attitudes; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Testing process; Accessibility (for disabled); Accessibility; Disabled person; Testdurchführung; Testen; Barrierefreiheit; Zugänglichkeit; Behinderter; Unterrichtserfolg; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Learning handicap; Lernbehinderung; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Junior High Schools; Student; Students; Sekundarstufe I; Schüler; Schülerin; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Ausland
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Athens Institute for Education & Research. 8 Valaoritou Street, Kolonaki, Athens 10671, Greece. e-mail: education@atiner.gr; Web site: https://www.athensjournals.gr/aje
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01