tudy of the relationship between academic skills and social skills

• Autor(a) principal: Cardoso, Catarina Lopes
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Veríssimo, Lurdes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/investigacaoeducacional.2010.3323

The mail goal of the present study is to understand the relation between academic competence and social competence in students from elementary school. The participants were 75 3rd grade students, aged between 8 and 10 years old, from public and private schools in the northern Portugal. The sample included students with learning disabilities and students with high academic competence, identified by their teachers. The results highlight a strong relation between academic competence and social competence: students with learning disabilities have a significant lower level of social skills and higher level of behavior problems than students with high academic competence. The results also showed that students with learning disabilities are strongly rejected by their peers. This study emphasizes that children with learning disabilities have difficulties, not only in academic skills, but also in the field of social skills. This kind of findings should be considered for understanding and intervention.