Effect of Metacognitive Strategies Training on Female Student's Epistemological Beliefs

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of metacognitive strategy training on students’ epistemological beliefs of the third grade (guidance school). The population included all third grade students in Divandareh studying in the school year (93-92). For this purpose, 80 students were randomly selected and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups were. Before applying the experimental variable, Schommer’s epistemological beliefs questionnaire were handed out to the groups, receiving metacognitive strategies training for ten sessions. Research method was semi- experimental with a pre-test and post-test control group. Results indicated that training metacognitive strategies can increase the epistemological beliefs of girl students in the third grade (guidance school).