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The Effect Accommodations Have on Overall Performance on SAT for Eleventh-Grade Students with Accommodations Based on Disability Program Type in High Schools
Background: Accommodations for Students under Section 504 and/or Individualized Educational Program (IEP) are essential for these students to take high-stakes tests given their appropriate assessment accommodations. Accommodations allow students with learning disabilities to test equitably as their …
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Barriers To Seeking And Obtaining Academic Accommodations In College Classrooms
… barriers to seeking and obtaining academic accommodations for college students with identified learning disabilities attending a regional university in a Midwestern state in the United States of America. A biological model of inclusive education for use in higher education, developed by …
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The Impact of Job Accommodations on Mental Health-Related Stigma
The current research examined the impact of accommodations for depression or anxiety (Study 1) and educational information (Study 2) on mental health-related stigma in the workplace. Participants read a scenario about a fictitious coworker returning to work following a leave of absence and answered …
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Demand for accommodations by senior citizens in the city of Windsor, 1981.
Dept. of Geography. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1981 .E494. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1981.
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Anxiety or advantage?: detecting malingered symptoms in college students seeking academic accommodations
Academic accommodations support equitable access to education for students whose mental health conditions meaningfully impair academic performance. Concerns exist regarding the potential to exaggerate or fabricate anxiety symptoms. This study examined whether cognitive tasks can differentiate …
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Exploring the health of university undergraduate students in relation to housing accommodations
… was classified into three categories of housing accommodations: at home with their families, on-campus residences, and off-campus housing. A self-administered health questionnaire was developed for the purpose of this research. The research objectives include: 1) to assess the environmental and …
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Evaluating College Biology Laboratory Accommodations For Students With Blindness And Visual Impairments
… institutions of higher education to provide accommodations for students with disabilities, yet the institutions must also maintain the academic integrity of their courses and programs. While college biology instructors provide specific accommodations, such as tactile models and audible …
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Employability of Individuals with Varying Disabilities and Costs of Needed Workplace Accommodations.
… an individual's disability and needed workplace accommodations and employability. The participants for this study were businessmen and businesswomen in Southwestern Virginia who possessed the ability to hire employees. Results indicated that an individual with a physical disability was thought of …
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Instructional Accommodations for Students with Asperger Syndrome in the General High School Classroom
… Syndrome struggle with making instructional accommodations to ensure these students reach their greatest potential. This study is intended to describe what secondary high school teachers are doing to differentiate instruction for their students with Asperger Syndrome and to identify some of …
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The Perceived Effectiveness of School-Based Accommodations for Students with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
… impact of the illness on youth. It examined the accommodations provided to students, as well as the patients' preferred accommodations. Anonymous English and Spanish surveys were placed in the waiting rooms of three lupus clinics in three different California counties. The target population …
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Attitudes towards accommodations for students with learning disabilities: a study of Rowan University faculty
… attitudes of Rowan University faculty regarding accommodations for students with learning disabilities. A survey was sent to 350 full-time assistant, associate, and full professors from Rowan University's six colleges. The study aimed to discover what instructional, exam, policy, as well as …
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A Meta-Analysis of Testing Accommodations for Students with Disabilities: Implications for High-Stakes Testing
<p>Test accommodations are designed to ensure the comparability of test scores between students and their typically developing counterparts by eliminating as much construct-irrelevant variance and construct-irrelevant difficulty as possible. Although those involved in test creation endeavor to …
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East Tennessee State University Faculty Attitudes and Student Perceptions in Providing Accommodations to Students with Disabilities.
… and student perceptions in providing academic accommodations to students with disabilities.</p><p>Participants of the study were ETSU students with disabilities who are registered with the Disabilities Services office and faculty members of ETSU. Students with disabilities were interviewed. An …
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The Effects of Testing Accommodations on Students' Standardized Test Scores in a Northeast Tennessee School System.
… study was to determine the effect of special accommodations on standardized achievement test scores of students in a school system in East Tennessee. Scores obtained by special education students who did not receive special accommodations in 1998 and/or 1999 were compared with scores obtained …
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Effects of a Self-Advocacy Intervention on Latino Male College Students' Ability to Request Academic Accommodations
… skills to help them request necessary academic accommodations. Students with learning disabilities need to recognize how their disability affects their academic learning, and need to have the strategies and skills known as self-advocacy, so that they can request and obtain these accommodations. …
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Testing accommodations for students with emotional or behavioral disorders: a national survey of special education teachers
… For most students with E/BD, testing accommodations are necessary for participating in large scale state assessments. Yet years after the passage of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 and Title 1 of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, there is a dearth of …
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Impact of Labeling, Legislation, and Accommodations on the Academic Achievement of African American Students with Learning Disabilities
… for a more systematic method of assessing needed accommodations for diverse learning needs. The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of labeling, legislation, and accommodations on the postsecondary academic success of African-American students with learning disabilities (LD). An …
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A Program Evaluation of the Necessary Attributes, Accommodations, and Resources Neurodivergent Students Require for Success in Higher Education
<p>Without academic resources and accommodations, neurodivergent students with mild to moderate Learning Disabilities (LD) may be unable to navigate the academic challenges and rigor associated with college success. I used a mixed-methods research design to collect data from various stakeholders to …
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