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study attributes - indicators of dyslexia?
prevalence of attributes of dyslexia
dyslexia is a consequence of natural human neurodiversity
university: a diverse and inclusive community of scholars?
fix the learner? change the system?
academic confidence
'I'm a skillful essay-writer at university'
'I'm not sure if I'll be able to write this essay'
academic self-efficacy ----> academic achievement
key researchers
academic behavioural confidence - the ABC Scale
research hypothesis
key metrics
Dyslexia Index as a discriminator
summary of results - Dx and ABC
ABC and Dx into factors
presentation summary
- Theories of developmental dyslexia still differ quite widely, especially in the interpretation of causes for the variety and range of characteristics that can be presented.
- Students at university present a range of learning and study profiles and characteristics, many of which might be considered as being aligned with the dimensions of a dyslexic learning profile.
- Academic Behavioural Confidence is focused on actions and plans that are specific to progressing in academic study, and is a sub-construct of academic self-efficacy although has distinct attributes.
- Although not widespread (yet), research evidence that does exist, shows that academic behavioural confidence is negatively correlated with dyslexia.
- This research project developed a new metric: Dyslexia Index, for gauging a respondent's level of dyslexia, and used it to find a small subgroup of students with an unreported, dyslexia-like learning and study profile.
- Analysis of data collected appears to suggest that:
- students with identified dyslexia present a statistically significantly lower level of ABC than their non-dyslexic peers;
- students with an unreported dyslexia-like profile present a statistically higher level of ABC than their dyslexia-identified peers.