Document Type : Research Article (Quantitative)

Authors

• Faranak Ghodsi ¹
• Ameneh Aman Zadeh ²

¹ Assistant Professor Department of Psychology and Counseling, Farhangian University, Sanandaj, Iran. (Corresponding Author)

² PhD student in educational technology, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran

Abstract

Purpose: Self-regulation training can improve the academic variables and performance of students. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of the effectiveness of self-regulation training on the perception of teachers' teaching quality, critical thinking and sense of school belongingness of the female students of the second year of high school.
Methodology: In a semi-experimental study with a pretest and posttest design with experimental and control groups, among the female students of the second year of high school in the 1th district of Sanandaj number of 30 people were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly by lottery assigned to two groups of 15 people. The experimental group received 10 sessions of 90 minutes based on the package of Barzegar Bafrooei et al (2018) and the control group did not receive any training. In this study, to collect data were used from Seraj's perception of teachers' teaching quality questionnaire (2013), Ricketts's critical thinking questionnaire (2003) and Arslan and Duru's school belongingness scale (2016) and its data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance method in SPSS version 19 software.
Findings: The findings showed that there was a significant difference between the female students of the second year of high school in the experimental and control groups in terms of all three variables of perception of teachers' teaching quality, critical thinking and sense of school belongingness. In the other words, self-regulation training led to improve the perception of teachers' teaching quality, critical thinking and sense of school belongingness of the female students of the second year of high school (P<0.001).
Conclusion: Considering the effectiveness of self-regulation training on improving the academic variables and performance can be used the mentioned method along with other educational methods to improve and promote academic variables and performance, especially the perception of teachers' teaching quality, critical thinking and sense of school belongingness.

Keywords

• Self-Regulation Training
• Perception of Teachers' Teaching Quality
• Critical Thinking
• Sense of School Belongingness
• Students