Students with disabilities attained postsecondary readiness and success outcomes at about one half to one third the rate of students without disabilities, the largest difference between any student group and its counterpart¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2022 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2027: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Students with disabilities attained postsecondary readiness, enrolled in college, and persisted in college at a rate of about one half to one third that of students without disabilities. → Hester 2022

Evidence¶

Hester 2022¶

Hester, C., Lazarev, V., Zacamy, J., Nardi, C., & Feygin, A. (2022). Student group differences in Arkansas' indicators of postsecondary readiness and success. Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/southwest/rel_2023-145.asp

q2 · i? · associational · r3

Descriptive analysis of postsecondary outcomes by disability status across the statewide cohorts. The authors report that "Students with disabilities attained postsecondary readiness, enrolled in college, and persisted in college at a rate of about one half to one third that of students without disabilities."

"Students with disabilities attained postsecondary readiness , enrolled in college , and persiste d in college at a rate of about one half to one third that of students without disabilities (figure 2)."

Studies bearing on this claim¶

Do learners with disabilities reach lower achievement, graduation and postsecondary outcomes than their peers, by how much, and does it differ by disability type? This table gathers the studies behind this claim and the 14 narrower claims that bear on it: 10 distinct studies (9 associational, 1 qualitative), q2–q3, 0 of 10 with an effect size coded. One row per study, codes as each entry records them; no effect is averaged and no verdict is drawn. Built by scripts/synthesize_claim.py from eval/synthesis/; a row that looks wrong is fixed on the claim it comes from.

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Access — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
• Learning Disabilities and Developmental Differences — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

• The BPSS logic model targets increased college readiness among Arkansas student populations with persistent outcome disparities — related
• Substantial differences in attaining academic indicators of postsecondary readiness occurred for most student groups, with the largest number between Black and White students, NSLP-eligible and ineligible students, and students entering grade 6 after age 13 — related
• Predictive accuracy of middle and high school indicators did not vary substantially between student groups — related
• Predictive specificity was substantially higher for NSLP-eligible, English learner, disabled, and older-entry students, with the largest difference for middle school students with disabilities predicting college enrollment — related
• Youth with an IEP lag their peers in planning and taking steps to obtain postsecondary education and jobs — related
• Fourth graders with disabilities scored 40 points lower in reading and 28 points lower in mathematics than peers without disabilities on the 2022 NAEP — related
• In 2012, youth with disabilities were more likely than other students to struggle academically and less likely to take steps to obtain postsecondary education and jobs — related
• Students with IEPs related to disabilities other than learning disabilities graduated at a far lower rate (46.4%) than students with learning-disability IEPs (77.5%) or without IEPs (84.6%) — related