The effect of an empowerment education package with self- determination approach on girl students math performance and gender beliefs (with low performance in this lesson)

Numerous studies have shown that mathematical gender beliefs affect girls' mathematical performance and Leads to a drop in math scores and Their interest is in mathematical utility. However, there is a research gap in the study of the effect of an empowerment education package with self- determination approach on girl students math performance and gender beliefs.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the empowerment education package with self- determination approach on girl students math performance and gender beliefs (with low performance in this lesson.

The present study was applied in terms of purpose and in terms of data collection method, an experimental type was semi-experimental with design pre-test,post-test and follow with control group. The study population consisted of all girl students ninth grade in 6 district Tehran city during the years 2019-2020 with low performance in math. 32 people were targeted selected as a sample and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups (16 people). The instruments of the present study were Leder and Forgasz (2002) mathematical Academic Belief Questionnaire, For the experimental group, training was held in 8 sessions of 60 minutes While the control group did not receive any intervention. Malekzadeh, Hejazi and Kiamanesh (1400) packages were used to teach empowerment with self-determination approach. Data analysis was performed by mixed analysis of variance.

showed that the use of empowerment training package with self-determination approach It has been effective in improving the performance and gender beliefs of math female students with low performance in this course (P<0/01).

girl students who participated in empowerment education sessions based on self-determination approach had better performance and Improvement beliefs to math lesson. Therefore, it is recommended to be considered as one of the educational programs at educational institutions Including In schools with different groups and more.