Study of effect of religious education programs on cognitive aspect of religious attitudes among female students of secondary school in Tehran

The purpose of the present research is to review the effects of religious education programs, both formal and informal, on the cognitive aspect of religious attitudes of secondary school girls in Tehran. In order to do this, the descriptive method was used to measure cognitive aspect of religious attitudes and describe the characteristics of the population, such as educational background and academic field. The statistical population includes all female students of secondary school in Tehran, and four hundred people was determined by the size of the sample. The research tool is a questionnaire, which included 37 questions in the cognitive aspect of attitudes. In this research, which used random cluster sampling, these results were obtained that the cognitive aspect of religious attitude of the students is high and desirable. Also, the effect of religious education programs on the dimensions of the students' religious attitudes, according to the different variables of the educational level and the educational field, does not have a meaningful difference.