The Effectiveness of Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategies on Self-Efficacy and Academic Engagement of Female Students with Learned helplessness

The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of teaching cognitive and metacognitive strategies on self-efficacy and academic engagement of female students with learned helplessness.This research was conducted in a quasi-experimental manner including a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The statistical population of the study included all 11th grade students of Maragheh schools in the academic year of 2019-2020 with a number of..number of 581 people. After the implementation of the Queens and Nelson (1988) learned helplessness questionnaire, 136 of them were diagnosed as learned helplessness. Purposeful method was used for sampling. Therefore, 40 eligible volunteers were randomly divided into 2 groups (20 in the experimental group and 20 in the control group) and entered the study. Subjects in both groups completed the academic self-efficacy questionnaires of Owen and Framan (1988) and the academic motivation of Scavofili et al. (2002) in the pre-test and post-test stages. The experimental group underwent educational intervention on cognitive and metacognitive strategies of Karami et al. (2014) for 8 sessions. Significance level was considered 0.05 for all tests. The results showed that teaching cognitive and metacognitive to the participants in the experimenta group, increased their scores……of academic self-efficacy (P<0.001) and academic motivation (P<0.001) in the post-test According to the research findings, it can be concluded that students with learned helplessness believe that events are uncontrollable. If they are exposed to the teaching of cognitive and metacognitive strategies, their self-efficacy and academic motivation will increase..