Effectiveness of cognitive techniques on self-efficacy and academic achievement of high school girl�s students in Amol city-Iran

Students with high self-efficacy achieve more advancement compared to those with weak self-efficacy. The main purpose of this study is to determine impact of cognitive techniques on self-efficacy and academic achievement of high school girl students. Method in this study has been experimental method using pretestposttest with control group. Statistical population of the study consists of all high school�s third grade girl students of Amol City during academic year 2015-2016. Firstly, cluster random sampling is applied and a school is selected and all third grade high school students with average below 15 (87 people) were tested by self-efficacy test. Students with mark below 57 in self-efficacy test were 49 students and 30 out of them were selected randomly and were placed in two 15-member control and experimental groups. Then, interventions in experimental group were applied for 8 sessions each session with 90 minutes and control group was in waiting list. Then at the end of 8 sessions, Both of experimental and control groups answered Sherer et al self-efficacy scale. Academic achievement, average of first and second semesters of students have been applied so. The data analyzed by multivariate covariance analysis by spss 22.The results from the study indicate that cognitive techniques have significant effect (p=0.00) on enhancing self-efficacy and academic achievement of students.cognitive techniques have can promote self-efficacy and academic achievement of high school girl students. © The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology