The effectiveness of problem-solving skills on academic self-concept in students with learning disabilities

Paying due attention to meta-cognitive skills usually enhances academic performance, and will bring about stable and enduring learning outcomes. Hence, the current research seeks to study the effectiveness of problem-solving skill training in improving the concept of self-education and consequently in the academic achievement of the students with learning disabilities.

The research enjoys a quasi-experimental design for studying 30 students with learning disabilities, split into a control and an experiment group. Stratified random sampling was employed to select the participants. The instrument for collecting data was Delavar's test for the concept of self-education, and the data was analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics, including One-way ANOVA by SPSS21 software.

Regarding the effectiveness of problem solving skill on academic achievements, it was revealed that this skill helps the students with learning disabilities, and improves their self-educational efforts which will lead to their academic achievements. It is suggested that teaching this skill be on the educational curricula.