Effects of Training Self-regulation Skills on Academic Performance among High School Students with Vision Loss

This study investigates the effect of self-regulation skills on academic performance among high school students with vision loss.

For this purpose, all of 120 students from Shorideh School for Blind Students were recruited and randomly assigned into control and experiment groups. Motivation and Learning Strategies Questionnaire (MSLQ), and a biology test were administered as the pretest for the two groups. The experiment group received 8 sessions of training for self-regulation skills. A follow-up was conducted for the groups after 1 month.

Variance analysis with repeated measures manifested a significant difference between the two groups. This means that the experimental group performance in biology was improved. The follow-up study showed that the effect was still maintained after the time.

This study confirmed that selfregulation skills can improve the academic performance in high school students with vision loss.