Date
12-7-2023
Department
School of Behavioral Sciences
Degree
Doctor of Education in Community Care and Counseling (EdD)
Chair
Jason Ward
Keywords
veteran, academics, disabilities, academic accommodations
Disciplines
Counseling | Higher Education
Recommended Citation
Groll, Valerie, "Veteran Identity and Academic Accommodations: Another Conflict" (2023). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects. 5031.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/5031
Abstract
Colleges and universities have seen an increase in student veteran enrollment to include student veterans with disabilities. Inconsistencies and inaccurate reporting systems have created conflicting data about veterans’ success in higher education making it difficult to find accurate data-driven research related to student veterans creating challenges when institutions of higher learning are assessing the needs of student populations and the programming needed to support them. Reporting inconsistencies identifying student veterans is not the only problem. There is also limited research regarding the use of academic accommodations among student veterans with disabilities. The purpose of this quantitative causal comparative study is to assess to what extent, there is a statistically significant association in academic success in math and English between student veterans who access academic accommodations and student veterans who do not access academic accommodations at the community college level in the southwestern United States. Data were examined using the Chi-squared analysis was used to determine if there was an association between two variables. No statistical significance association between accommodation accessed (accessed, not accessed) and academic success (successful, not successful), in math suggests that student veterans who access academic accommodations do not have a higher success rate in math compared to student veterans who do not access academic accommodations. There was a significant association between accommodation accessed (accessed, not accessed) and academic success (successful, not successful), in English suggests that student veterans who access academic accommodation have a higher success rate in English compared to student veterans who do not access academic accommodations.
