The Effectiveness of Social-Emotional Learning Program on Academic Motivation and Self-Efficac

The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of social-emotional learning program on improving students' academic motivation and self-efficacy. The study design was semi-experimental with pre-test/post-test and control group. The statistical population was all high school male students of Zanjan. First, a school was selected by a convenience sampling method. Then the subjects (N=44) were selected in a random sampling procedure, then randomly assigned to two equally divided experimental and control groups. A package for Social-emotional Skills Training was taught to the first group for 12 sessions, each for one hour, while the latter did not receive. The study instruments were Academic Self-efficacy Questionnaire (Greene, Miller, Crowson, Duke, & Akey, 2004) and Harter's Academic Motivation Questionnaire (1981). The results suggested that the social-emotional learning training had a significantly positive affect on academic motivation and academic self-efficacy and also social-emotional learning remained a great factor affecting learning motivation and academic self-efficacy. Hence, educational experts are suggested to pay special heed to the function of the social-emotional learning in order to train students with high academic motivation and self-efficacy.