Investigation of relationship between invitational education and intelligence beliefs in high school students of Kashmar

The present study has been carried out with aim of Investigation of relationship between invitational education and intelligence beliefs in high school students of Kashmar . The research population include all male and female students studying at high schools in the academic year of 2009-2010 in Kashmar. The research sample includes 540 students (270 females, 270 males), selected through multi-stagerandom sampling: the city was divided into three regions (north, center, south), then four schools in each region and three classes in each school were randomly selected. Research instruments include (a) invitational teaching survey(Amos, Purkey, Tobias, 1980; Revised 1990; shaw2003); (b) intelligence beliefs questionnaire (Zabihi, 2005). Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation, one-sided ANOVA, and t-test. The results showed that (a) there is a significant relationship between invitational education components and those of intelligence beliefs; (b) there is differences between female and male students’ beliefs about invitational education; (c)there is differences between students’ beliefs about invitational education from various grade, and (d) intelligence beliefs are different among male and female students. The finding have some implications for education and effective learning, which are discussed in this article.