Catálogo de Investigaciones | 2010-2011

Estudios Graduados 104 Accessibility, accommodations’, and self-efficacy in the mathematics/ science achievement and career choice of postsecondary students with a learning disability This study will explore the types of accessibility/accommodations that students with a documented learning disability have agreed may allow for better access and support in the successful achievement of mathematics/sciences courses at the university level. This is in keeping with the theoretical concept of Participatory Action Research (PAR) methods and the person- environment conceptualization of disability reported by Tate and Pledger (2003). Also being studied is the correlation (if any) between accessibility/accommodations and math/science self- efficacy, gender, and math/science self-efficacy, and career barrier and math/science self-efficacy. Inferential statistics were used and measured using windows SPSS 17.0. The participants for this study were 53 male and female students with a documented learning disability from a private university in the southern region of Puerto Rico. Results revealed that 59% of students strongly agreed that new forms of access/accommodations to mathematics/ science courses are needed. Results of the self efficacy in math/ science and career barriers in math/science also revealed, that student participants with a LD are very confident that with the proper training they can achieve their math/science goals. It also appears that students with LD seem to have a stronger propensity to tolerate barriers (coping self-efficacy) than they do to figure out how best to manage them (math/science self-efficacy). Betty Rivera- Sanchez MENTOR Dr. Eugene Pichette consejería en rehabilitación