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PHI Project: Limit or inferior extreme intellectual functioning and learning difficulties

Abstract:

The general objective of the project is to define the learning difficulties of borderline or lowest intellectual limit students from a neuropsychological approach. This research is applied and anchored to the Center for Educational Research whose coverage is zone 6 of the country that includes the provinces of Azuay, Cañar and Morona Santiago. The hypothesis from which this study started is: What are the differences in the execution of the Wechsler sub-scales between the students with borderline or the lowest intellectual functioning and the control group? The population universe is made up of 2000 children, with 1270 children in the control group and 730 in the experimental group. They belong to the area of educational inclusion for presenting borderline or the lowest intellectual functioning. A quasi-experimental design with non-equivalent groups was used. The inclusion criterion is the IQ. The independent variable is borderline or the lowest intellectual functioning (mild vs. moderate or severe on the Mercer scale) and the dependent variable is the scores on the Wechsler scale, academic performance and results in the academic tasks. The EDAH test is used for the attentional measures. For the statistical analysis, the latest version of the statistical package SPSS will be used. The techniques and instruments will be psychometric measures and direct observation as instruments and Wechsler scales and observation sheet as well.