تاثير آموزش شناختي بر مسند مهارگذاري انگيزه پيشرفت و پيشرفت تحصيلي دانش آموزان شاهد

THE EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE TRAINING ON LOCUS OF CONTROL,ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF HIGHSCHOOL STUDENTS

This research has studied the efect of cognitive training on locus of control, achievement motivation and academic performance of Shahed high school students in Shahin Shahr (Esfahan). A random sample of 100 high school students (50 girls and 50 boys) were selected and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The pre-test and post-test design was used. First, subjects in both groups in the pre-test phase answered to the Rotter Locus of Control and Hermans Achievement Motivation Questionnaires. Then, experimantal group received 9 weekly sessions (60 minutes each) of cognitive training. At the end of training, subjects from both experimental and control groups fill out the Locus of control and the Achievement Motivation questionnaires as the post-test. Also, the participantsʹ grade point average from the first and the second academic terms were used as the pre and post-test, showing their academic performance. The results indicated that cognitive training had a significant efect on increasing the degree of internal locus of Control, and achievement motivation scores for the experimental group, but its efect on their academic performance has not reached the significant level.