The effectiveness of self-regulated metacognitive strategies training on educational resilience and educational procrastination

This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of teaching self-regulated metacognitive learning strategies on educational resilience and procrastination of Tabriz secondary school students in 1396-97 academic year. It was a semi-experimental research with pre and post-test control group design. The research population included Tabriz secondary school students. The research sample consisted of 60 students with high educational resilience who were selected through a preliminary study and a multi-stage cluster sampling method. Then, they were assigned to experimental and control groups, using a targeted substitution method. The experimental group participated in the training sessions for autonomous-metacognitive strategies for 12 sessions and the control group did not receive any intervention. For the experimental group, the curriculum was self-regulated metacognitivestrategies -forological and for the control group-the normal daily education. The tools used in this research were: academic resiliency (Samuels & Woo, 2009) and academic procrastination (Solomon & Rothblum, 1984). Data were analyzed using multivariate covariance. The results of multivariate covariance analysis indicated that training self-regulated metacognitive strategies increased and improved the components of academic achievement and decreased the components of academic procrastination.The results showed that  training metacognitive learning strategiescan provide programs to increase and improve the students' academic achievement. This research has implications for teachers, trainers and school counselors who could use its outcomes to improve students' progress.