Meta‑analysis of the efficacy of psychological and educational interventions to improve academic performance of students with learning disabilities in Iran

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چکیده

Introduction: with due attention to the importance of learning disabilities and necessityof presenting interventions for improvement of these disorders in order to prevent futureproblems, this study used meta‑analysis of the research model on the impact of psychologicaland educational interventions to improve academic performance of students with learningdisabilities. Methods: with the use of meta‑analysis method by integrating the results of variousresearches, this study specifies the effect of psychological and educational interventions. Inthis order, 57 studies, which their methodology was accepted, were selected and meta‑analysiswas performed on them. The research instrument was a meta‑analysis checklist. Results: Theeffect size for the effectiveness of psychological‑educational interventions on improving theacademic performance of students with mathematics disorder (0.57), impaired writing (0.50)and dyslexia (0.55) were reported. Conclusions: The result of meta‑analysis showed thataccording to Cohen’s table, the effect size is above average, and it can be said that educationaland psychological interventions improve the academic performance of students with learningdisabilities.