Relationship between Dyslexia and the Academic Performance: Mediating Role of Teacher’s Awareness

Keywords: Identifying dyslexic Students, Classroom management, teacher-parent participation, Teacher’s awareness, Academic performance.

Abstract

The academic performance of dyslexic students’ needs a lot of attention both from teachers as well as parents. Teachers must be well trained and have the expertise to carefully manage the class of dyslexic students. For this purpose, identifying dyslexic students, classroom management teacher-parent participation and awareness could play an important role in enhancing the academic performance of dyslexic students. The current study aims to investigate the indirect effects of awareness on the relationship between identifying dyslexic students, classroom management teacher-parent participation, and academic performance of students. Nonprobability convenience sampling was used. 372 participants participated in the survey. AMOS-SEM was used for data analysis. Measurement and structural models were developed. It was found that all the scales were found reliable and valid. Moreover, all the direct and indirect relationships were also found positive and significant. Awareness and teacher-parent participation were found most dominant factors on basis of beta values.

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Author Biographies

Ghulam Muhammad Kundi, Al-Bukayriyah Qassim University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Department of Health Administration College of Public Health and Health Informatics, Al-Bukayriyah Qassim University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Mohammad Faleh Alharbi, Al-Bukayriyah Qassim University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Department of Health Administration College of Public Health and Health Informatics, Al-Bukayriyah Qassim University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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2022-03-10
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Kundi, G. M., & Alharbi, M. F. (2022). Relationship between Dyslexia and the Academic Performance: Mediating Role of Teacher’s Awareness. Amazonia Investiga, 11(50), 215-231. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2022.50.02.21
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