Help! Can someone please simplify this?

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Can someone but this in basic English please?

The findings indicated that labels were associated with differences in teachers’ efficacy beliefs. Responses to the ‘dyslexia’ variants suggested that teachers’ sense of efficacy was associated with beliefs that dyslexia was an immutable phenomenon that yields viable inferences and that efficacy beliefs were not uniformly associated with experience. In contrast, the ‘reading difficulty’ items evoked responses that indicated that all aspects of teachers’ efficacy beliefs about intervening were related to greater experience and only marginally related to essentialist beliefs about reading difficulties

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Does the first bit mean it depends what a teacher expects in terms of what is an acceptable level of work? And that no matter what you do dyslexia can’t be helped?

It basically means that teachers self assessment of how useful/effective they could be in aiding children was to some extent dependent on how the needs were labelled, in that teachers felt that they were more effective and their own experience mattered when the needs were called "reading difficulties", but that when the same needs were named "dyslexia" they felt more often that there own experience and ability to assist were less relevant .

In essence they saw that "reading difficulties" were much more something they could help with than "dyslexia".

That the teachers understanding is linked to their experience. That they had no understanding about the degree that dyslexia was playing or how to teach in a different way to make something understood.

That the reading difficulties were being tackled the same regardless of Individual ability.

Thank you so much! Makes more sense now!

I have to say OP that that is so badly written!

But yes, it means (I think) that teachers believe they can help much more with "reading difficulties" than they can with dyslexia which they see as something that cannot be changed

It means that teachers view things differently depending on how they are presented.

Er, possibly

Teachers think there is a standard approach they must take to "dyslexia" and its variations but might be more likely to think they can help "reading difficulties" based on experience.

That is appallingly written!

The author of that needs to look at consulting with this organisation.

its not that badly written, its in a particular type of academic style. Could be cleaner though.

If it is not understandable by someone that needs to understand it, it's badly written

No, thats not how it works at all. Scientific and academic journals are not meant to be written in "plain english".

I didn't say it should. I said it should be understandable though. And punctuated properly. I write technical copy for a living. It still has to be read and understood.

It is understandable. It's not very well punctuated, I'll agree with that, but its definitely understandable if you understand the topic.

No, thats not how it works at all. Scientific and academic journals are not meant to be written in "plain english".

I'm not sure about that - the vast majority of the ones I've read, while not being shakespeare, are at least comprehensible.

The one quoted from is comprehensible. I comprehended it easily.

Doug I have to say your last post made me smile. You mean you understood it?

It's a long-winded way of saying that they can't make their minds up whether to agree with one another or not

That's just the abstract, you can download the whole thing
www.researchgate.net/publication/276099806_The_differential_effects_of_labelling_how_do_%27dyslexia%27_and_%27reading_difficulties%27_affect_teachers%27_beliefs

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