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The Effects of Educational Placement and Grade Level on the Self-Perceptions of Low Achievers and Students with Learning Disabilities

Ruth Butler, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with special interests in the development of self-appraisal and motivation for learning. Address: Ruth Butler, School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91905, Israel.

Deganit Marinov-Glassman

Deganit Marinov-Glassman completed an MA degree in school psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is presently working as a school psychologist, with a special focus on children with learning disabilities, in the Psychological-Educational Service of the Jerusalem Municipality.

Previous studies have yielded mixed findings as to the effect of learning disabilities (LD) on self-perception. We proposed that perceived competence in children who experience learning difficulties is affected both by age trends in self-appraisal processes and by the degree to which students' salient reference group is composed primarily of similar or more competent others. Measures of perceived competence (Harter, 1982) and perceived achievement were administered to 222 Israeli students (127 boys, 95 girls) in Grades 3, 5, and 7. The sample comprised 68 children with LD attending special schools, 68 children with LD attending special classes in regular schools, and 86 nonidentified low achievers in regular classes. As expected, perceived competence was similar and high in all groups at Grade 3, but was higher among the special school group than among the special class and low achieving groups at Grade 5. The benefits of special schools were less clear at Grade 7. Implications for research methodology and educational practice are discussed.

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