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The procrastination is a common failure in self-regulation. Students who consider themselves efficient, use cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies more and make more effort to do their assignments. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies on academic procrastination and self-efficacy of students.

The research method was semi-experimental and its design was pretest, post-test with control group and follow-up stage. The statistical population comprised all middle school students in the city of Khorramabad, in the academic year of 2015-2016, among whom 30 students having academic procrastination (score≥30) were selected through the step random sampling method. Then, with semi-experimental method, the students were divided into two groups: exprimental (15 students) and control (15 students). The students in exprimental group received the training of cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies for 90-min eight sessions (once a week). The data were obtained by using the Savari Academic Procrastination Questionnaire and Sherer and Maddox General Self-efficacy Scale and the multi-variable covariance analysis (MANCOVA) was applied to analyze the data.

The results showed that cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies training reduced significantly academic procrastination and increased self-efficacyy in the exprimental group towards the control group (P>0.001). Also, this effect continued until the follow-up phase.

Based on the research results, it can be said the training of the cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies has a beneficial effect on decreasing academic procrastination and increasing self-efficacy among female students.

Happiness is a scientific name of the assessment of individuals from life. A happy person processes and interprets the information in a way that ultimately makes him feel happy and optimistic. Academic vitality refers to a positive, productive and adaptive response to a variety of challenges and obstacles that are experienced in the ongoing field of study. Certainly the consequence of a meaningful life is a feeling of mastery, calmness, happiness and vitality. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of logo-therapy training on happiness and academic vitality of female students in the second grade of secondary school in Khorramabad city.
This study was done by pre-test, post-test and follow-up with the control group and the statistical population of this study included all female students of second grade of secondary schools in Khorramabad city (2015-2016). The sampling method in this study was random and step by step. First, a school was selected from secondary all-girl schools of the two education districts of Khorramabad. Then, 32 students were selected and placed in two groups of 16 experimental and control groups. The tools of this research were the New Form of Oxford Happiness Scale OHQ (2001) and Hossein Chari and Dehghanizadeh Academic Vitality Questionnaire (1391). Descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (multivariate and one-way analysis of covariance) were used to analyze the data.
The results showed that logo-therapy training increases the happiness and academic vitality of the students and the results were also preserved in the follow-up phase.
Accordingly, teachers are encouraged to teach logo-therapy during the training period.

Academic engagement plays an important role in predicting the academic achievement of students. Students who find meaning and purpose for their activities, enjoy learning increasingly and have more energy to succeed. The purpose of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of logotherapy training on academic engagement of middle school students in khorramabad.
The statistical population comprised all middle school students in khorramabad in the academic year of 2015- 2016 among whom 32 students were selected through step random sampling method. Participants were assigned to either test or control groups following the pretest -post test and follow up experimental design (16 students were assigned to test group and 16 to the control group). The test group received interventions related to logotherapy training for 12 sessions of 90 minutes in a one-week period of time. The applied tool was zerang academic engagement questionnaire (1391). The obtained data were analyzed using the multi-variable covariance analysis (MANCOVA).
Findings demonstrated a significant difference between the groups. Similarly, results from the single variable research showed a meaningful difference between the two test group and control group and findings were also preserved in the follow-up phase.
Accordingly, it is recommended to teachers to embark on teaching logotherapy training during their training period.