Determining the Effect of Self-regulation Strategy- training on the Ability of Solving Unusual Problems

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 PHD Student, University of Isfahan, IRAN.

2 Ph.D student in Educational Psychology, Shiraz University, IRAN.

3 Master Science, Clinical Psychology, Primary Teacher of Boyer Ahmad, IRAN.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of self-regulation strategies training on the ability to solve unusual problems among elementary school students grade 5. This research is a pre-test-post-test-follow-up with control group. After studying and designing, 40 female students of fifth grade elementary school studying in a school in Yasouj city in the academic year 1397-98, were selected by random sampling method and were randomly assigned into two experimental and control groups. After the pre-test, the subjects of the experimental group were trained for 12 sessions (one session per week) around the eight problem-solving strategies, and the control group did not receive any training. Two groups were re-evaluated with post-test. For analysis of data, repeated measures were used to analyze variance. The results of repeated measure ANOVA showed that there is a significant difference in ability mean to solve unusual problems (P <0.05) between the control and experimental groups. Therefore, teaching self-regulation strategies has increased the ability to solve unusual problems in students. In addition, these results indicate that the ability to solve unusual problems over time is steady.

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