The Study of Effective of Academic Self-Efficacy and Meta-Cognitive Skills on Academic Achievement of Agricultural Students of Saravan Institute of Higher Education

One of the basic issues of educational life of individuals and the education system of countries is academic failure and the slow and uneven progress of academic achievement among students. Generally, academic achievement as a dependent variable is not affected by only one factor, but there are several factors such as cognitive and meta-cognitive skills that could affect it. In this study, we used structural equation modeling to investigate the effect of meta-cognitive skills and Academic self-efficacy on academic achievement of students. We provided a questionnaire consists of subscales of meta-cognitive skills, educational self-efficacy and achievement using Morgan table and the stratified sampling method with proportional allocation of 120 agricultural students of Saravan Institute of higher education to be answered. Results showed that there is a significant and a direct relationship between the meta-cognitive skills and academic self-efficacy. Academic self-efficacy also has a direct and significant effect on educational achievement of students, but meta-cognitive skills affect Academic achievement in an indirectly. In the following, we discussed the results and presented a few suggestions for improving meta-cognitive skills and academic self-efficacy of students.