Comparison of the Effectiveness of Group Training of Metacognitive Strategies with the Fellowship Training on the Educational Self-Efficacy and Motivation: Secondary School Students

This study is aiming to investigate the comparison between the effects of group training of metacognitive strategies and those of the fellowship training on the educational self-efficacy and motivation of high school male students in Dehloran in the academic year of 1397-1398. The research method is semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design on the control group and following up after 3 months. It is practical in terms of research type. The present study population includes all the male high school students of the second grade (300 students) among which 75 ones were selected as the sample group by the purposeful sampling technique. This sample is divided randomly into three groups including 25 students as metacognitive experimental group, 25 ones as fellowship experimental group and 25 others as the control group. The research tools consists of Harter's Educational Motivation Scale (1981) and Morgan-Jinks Student Efficacy Scale (1999) questionnaires. The data so collected were analyzed by descriptive statistical methods including the calculation of frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation as well as inferential statistics including covariance analysis tests and its assumptions in order to investigate the differences between the means of pretest, posttest and follow-up. The SPSS software Ver. 24 was performed to analyze such data. The findings indicate that the group training of metacognitive strategies and fellowship training have significant effects on the educational motivation and self-efficacy. Furthermore, the mean scores of the training method with metacognitive strategies were higher on self-efficacy and motivation compared to those of fellowship method Therefore; training method based on metacognitive strategies is significantly more effective than the fellowship training method.