Effectiveness of problem solving skill teaching on student's educational self thought

Aims. Many of educational successes and failures root in general observation of each person about his or her abilities of institutional learning. According to this, present study purposed to evaluate the effectiveness of problem solving skills teaching on improving the concept of self-educating and so, on students educational progress.Methods. This quasi-experimental study performed on 30 computer engineering students of Shiraz University who sampled randomly and divided into two test and control groups. Data collecting instrument was Delavar self-educating concept test. Data analyzing used descriptive and analytical statistics include unidirectional variance analysis by SPSS 11 software.Results. The mean of effectiveness of problem solving skills teaching in educational progressing, was 2.80 in test group, 10.85 in control group and t=2.31. The mean of effectiveness of problem solving skills teaching in self-educational concept was 56.26 in test group, 48.53 in control group and t=9.2.Conclusion. Teaching problem solving skills to university students, cause improving the self-educational concept and educational progress and must be paid attention in educational programs.