Comparison of the Effect of Instruction of Self-regulated Learning and Help-seeking Strategies Training to Increase Educational Engagement and Buoyancy of Procrastinating Students

Goal: 

The purpose of this study was to comparison of the effect of instruction of self-regulated learning and help-seeking strategies training to increase educational engagement and buoyancy of procrastinating students.

This research was a semi-experimental design with pretest-posttest design with two experimental and one control groups. The statistical population of this study included all non- public schools of the second grade of secondary schools in the first and second districts of rasht city (29 schools and 593 students) in the academic year of 2017-2018, among them 60 procrastinating students through solomon and roth blum (2013) questionnaires were randomly selected and randomly divided into 3 groups of 20 (2 experimental and 1 control groups). questionnaires educational engagement schofeli & et al (2002) and educational buoyancy of dehghani-zadeh & hossein-chari (2012) completed all of the subjects in the pre-test and post-test phases. Then, one of the experimental groups received 12 sessions of 90 minute under the instruction of help-seeking strategies, and the other experimental group was received 15 sessions of 90 minutes under the instruction of self-regulated learning. while the control group did not receive any interventions during this period. Data were analyzed using inferential statistics of multivariate analysis and bonferroni post hoc test.

The results showed that Instruction of self-regulated learning and help-seeking strategies increased Educational engagement of who were Procrastinating Students. The results showed that Instruction of self-regulated learning and help-seeking strategies increased Educational buoyancy of who were Procrastinating Students.

Based on the results of this research, it can be concluded that the use of instruction of self-regulated learning and help-seeking strategies is used to reduce of procrastinating students.