نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
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1 استاد روانشناسی تربیتی، گروه علوم تربیتی، دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روانشناسی، دانشگاه تبریز، تبریز، ایران.
2 استاد روانشناسی و آموزش کودکان استثنایی، گروه علوم تربیتی، دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روانشناسی، دانشگاه تبریز، تبریز، ایران
3 استاد برنامهریزی درسی، گروه علوم تربیتی، دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روانشناسی، دانشگاه تبریز، تبریز، ایران
4 کاندیدای دکتری تخصصی روانشناسی تربیتی، دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روانشناسی، دانشگاه تبریز، تبریز، ایران.
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This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of a cognitive rehabilitation program on learning behaviors and academic perseverance in female students with mathematical anxiety. The research had a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design with a control group. The statistical population included all the female adolescent students of a senior high school in Julfa city in academic year 2022-2023. Among them, 30 female students with mathematical anxiety were selected by purposive sampling and were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (n=15 per group). The samples were evaluated using Plake and Parker’s Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (1982), McDermott’s Learning Behavior Scale (1999) and the Academic Grit Scale by Duckworth (2007). The findings from the post-test and follow-up revealed the mean scores of learning behaviors and academic perseverance to have increased in the experimental group compared to the controls.
Introduction
Mathematics is one of the most important subjects of teaching and learning in schools. According to research literature, increased anxiety among students reduces the quality of learning (Supriadi, Jamaluddin & Suherman, 2024). Learning behaviors are therefore one of the components of students’ academic progress and success in educational activities (Anthony, Ogg & Winkelman, 2024). One of the characteristics of students with mathematical anxiety is their lack of interest and perseverance in studies, especially in the field of mathematics, which causes a lack of stability and persistence in efforts or desire to achieve long-term goals (Lohbeck & Muller, 2023). The current research aims to investigate the effectiveness of a cognitive rehabilitation program on learning behaviors and stability of academic progress in students with mathematical anxiety.
Methodology
This quasi-experimental research had a pretest-posttest design and a control group. The statistical population included all the female adolescent students of a senior high school in Julfa city in the academic year 2022-2023. A total of 30 students who scored higher than 60 in the Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (MARS-R) were selected and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. For the pre-test, the Learning Behavior Scale (LBS) and Academic Grit Scale (Grit-s) were administered in both groups. After the pre-test, Captain's Log cognitive rehabilitation program was implemented for the experimental group. After completion of the training course, each of the students in the experimental group and also the controls were administered the post-test. In the end, in order to check the stability of effectiveness of the cognitive rehabilitation program, a follow-up was also carried out after one month. SPSS software version 22 was used for the statistical analysis of the data, and mixed analysis of variance test was used to check the research hypotheses.
Results
According to the results obtained, there was a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in the post-test, and group-by-time interaction effects were found for competence motivation, attention/persistence, attitude towards learning, and strategy/flexibility. Therefore, the hypotheses related to the variable of learning behaviors and its components are confirmed and it can be argued that the cognitive rehabilitation program had a positive effect on the learning behaviors of female students with mathematical anxiety. Based on the coefficients obtained, the effect of the cognitive rehabilitation program was 52% on the competence motivation variable, 67% on attention/persistence, 69% on attitude towards learning and 71% on strategy/flexibility. Also, there was a significant difference in the interaction effect for the component of stability in interest and persistence in effort between the two groups in the post-test. Therefore, the hypotheses related to stability of academic progress and its components are confirmed and the cognitive rehabilitation program had an effect on the stability of academic progress among female students with mathematical anxiety. Based on the coefficients obtained, the effect of the cognitive rehabilitation program was 91% on stability in interest and 89% on persistence in effort.
Discussion and conclusion
The present study was conducted to determine whether cognitive rehabilitation has a positive impact on learning behaviors and academic perseverance in female students with mathematical anxiety. The results showed that the cognitive rehabilitation program had a significant positive effect on academic behaviors. Also, cognitive rehabilitation was effective in increasing the stability of academic progress in female students with mathematical anxiety. The most important limitation of this study was that the sample population was restricted to female students of senior high school with mathematical anxiety in Julfa city. It is recommended to conduct a similar research on male subjects in order to understand the differences between girls and boys in this regard. It is also suggested to hold workshops and training courses in cognitive rehabilitation for school counselors and teachers, so that they can get familiar with this type of program and utilize it for their students.
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