Effectiveness of Favorable Academic Social Behaviors Training on the Academic Engagement and Buoyancy of Secondary High School Male Students

The present study was conducted with the purpose of investigating the effectiveness of favorable academic social behaviors training on the academic engagement and buoyancy of secondary high school male students. the present study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control group design. The statistical population of the present study included 12045 secondary high school male students in academic year 2019-20. 50 students were selected through convenient sampling method and they were randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (25 students in the experimental group and 25 students in the control groups). The experimental group received the ten ninety-minute interventions of favorable academic social behaviors training (researcher-made) during two-and-a-half months. The applied questionnaires in this study included academic engagement questionnaire (Fredericks, Blumenfeld and Paris, 2004) and academic buoyancy (Martin and March, 2008). The data were analyzed through ANCOVA method. results revealed that favorable academic social behaviors training has significant effect on the academic engagement and buoyancy of secondary high school male students (p<0.001) in a way that this intervention succeeded in the improvement of the students’ academic engagement and buoyancy. findings of the present study implied that favorable academic social behaviors training can be used as an efficient training to improve the students’ academic engagement and buoyancy through employing concepts such as positive interaction, accountability, following teacher’s guidance, interpersonal skills, problem-solving communication, academic self-efficacy and attempt to develop.