The Effectiveness of Brain Gym in Increasing Academic Self-Efficacy, Academic performance and reduction concentration and attention defect of university student

This study aims to identify the effectiveness of Brain Gym in reducing concentration attention defect and increasing academic self-efficacy and academic performance in university students. this study is a quasi-experimental study involved two groups of fifteen students that were allocated into Brain Gym intervention and control group. The Brain Gym intervention group performed Brain Gym exercise on a daily basis for eight weeks. They were allocated with 30 – minutes Brain training game for each person in a group during free time at university .Data for the attention, academic self-efficacy and academic performance that were collected during pre and post – test using three instruments: 1) Owen and Freeman college Academic self-efficacy test, Sevari and Oraki concentration, and academic performance test. Measurements were assessed before intervention and end of intervention the finding of the study show a significant increment of attention and concentration among participants in the intervention group, the finding also shows a significant increment for academic performance and academic self-efficacy in the intervention group. this study provides alternative to university students and psychologists to provide appropriate concentration and attention stimulus that could fulfill the needs of university students in university and at home.