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Mathematics Academic Achievement Of Students With Emotional And Behavioral Disorders, Sarah Kinney Maddox
Mathematics Academic Achievement Of Students With Emotional And Behavioral Disorders, Sarah Kinney Maddox
Doctor of Education in Teacher Leadership Dissertations
The aim of this secondary data analysis study was to examine the association between certain predictors and student’s mathematics achievement on two tests of the Woodcock Johnson III Academic Knowledge subtests: Applied Problems and Calculations. Results indicated that students with a diagnosis of emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) had academic deficits in mathematics, and these deficits became larger over time. Data pertaining to mathematics academic achievement from the first two waves of the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2 (N = 420) were examined. The variables investigated to further explore academic achievement scores were gender, race/ethnicity, student’s school attended prior …