Effectiveness of Academic Buoyancy Training On Academic Success and Academic Self-Efficacy of Girl Students

This research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of academic buoyancy training on academic success and academic self-efficacy of girl students. The statistical population of present research was including all female first-grade high school students of Mashhad city in the academic years 2015-16. In a semi-experimental design 40 student who was selected by multi-step random sampling method and randomly assigned to two groups (each group 20 person). The experimental group 12 sessions of 70 minute (two sessions in a week) educated by academic buoyancy and the control group received no training. Both groups completed the questionnaires of academic success and academic self-efficacy as a pre-test, post-test and follow-up. Data were analyzed by analysis of variance with repeated measure design and with SPSS-21 software. The findings showed there was a significant difference between experimental and control groups on the variables of academic success and academic self-efficacy of girl students in the post-test and follow-up stages. In the other words, the academic buoyancy training led to increase academic success and academic self-efficacy of girl students in the post-test and follow-up stages (P<0/01).