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Record W4410307735 · doi:10.1080/09638288.2025.2496356

Evaluating disability awareness programs in schools: a scoping review of longitudinal outcomes and measures

2025· review· en· W4410307735 on OpenAlexafffund
Alice Kelen Soper, Melissa Shivnauth, Holly Marini, Amanda Doherty‐Kirby, Trinity Lowthian, Sarthak Dave, Samantha Noyek, Kerry Britt, Michelle Phoenix, Christine Imms, Peter Rosenbaum

Bibliographic record

VenueDisability and Rehabilitation · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInclusion and Disability in Education and Sport
Canadian institutionsQueen's UniversityUniversity of OttawaUniversity of TorontoMcMaster University
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchOntario SPOR SUPPORT Unit
KeywordsPsychologyGerontologyRehabilitationApplied psychologyMedical educationMedicinePhysical therapy

Abstract

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PURPOSE: This scoping review examined the measures used, outcomes assessed, and the longitudinal impacts of disability awareness programs. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Studies were identified from September 2011 to June 2023 across seven electronic databases. Covidence review software and Microsoft Excel were used to manage data. The data analysis included frequency counts of measures used and categorisation of the types of outcomes assessed. The longitudinal outcomes were synthesised according to the outcomes measured. RESULTS: Seventy-two studies were included from 26 countries, utilising a range of measures to assess cognitive, affective, and behavioural outcomes of programs. A subset of 14 longitudinal studies was identified to explore longer-term outcomes, from 1 to 30-month follow-up. All four longitudinal studies assessing cognitive outcomes demonstrated sustained increases. Ten of 11 studies that assessed changes in attitudes generally found sustained improvements, while only one of five studies found lasting improvements on behaviours. CONCLUSIONS: Disability awareness programs can be an effective approach to increase knowledge, improve attitudes and can, to some extent, increase inclusive behaviours of students towards peers with disabilities.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.042
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.117
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: Systematic review
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.042
Threshold uncertainty score0.223

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0420.117
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0080.008
Bibliometrics0.0230.022
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0050.004
Open science0.0030.003
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.190
GPT teacher head0.524
Teacher spread0.334 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSystematic review
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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