Compare Academic Self-Efficacy and Self-Regulation among Students with Learning Disorder and without Learning Disorder in Normal Elementary Schools (Fourth And Fifth Grade) of Kerman
Monavvareh Abbaszadeh1 and Gholamreza Sardoie21Master , General Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Zarand.
2Master, Psychometric, Allameh Tabatabaei university.
Abstract: This study was conducted with the aim of comparing academic self-efficacy and self-regulation among students with and without learning disorder in normal elementary school (fourth and fifth grade) of Kerman. The research method is causal-comparative method and population includes all students with and without learning disorder in fourth and fifth grade of normal elementary school in Kerman in 2013-2014. Subjects included 124 students with learning disorder that were selected by simple random sampling method, as well as 124 students without learning disorder who were selected by cluster sampling method. To collect data, the academic self-efficacy questionnaire of Bandura (2000) was used for elementary school students and the self-regulation strategies questionnaire of Franksis (1999) was used for Children. Data analysis was performed using SPSS 18 software and using statistical methods of two independent samples t-test, hypotheses of research were tested. The results showed that in terms of academic self-efficacy and self-regulation, there is a significant difference between two groups and the group of students without learning disorder had more self-regulation and self-efficacy than the group with learning disorder as well as these results were in two genders.
Keywords: self-regulation; self- efficacy; learning disorder; without learning disorder; elementary schools Back to TOC