The effectiveness of outlet creativity training method on exam anxiety and academic performance of female students in Maragheh

Subject Areas : Woman and family

Parviz Tajedini ¹ , Rana Sakenazary ² , Aida Azin fam ³

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Sarab Branch, Sarab, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Sarab Branch, Sarab, Iran
3 - Master, Department of General Psychology, Ahar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahar Iran

Received: 2018-11-22 Accepted : 2019-02-26 Published : 2018-12-22

Keywords: Students, PRIZ Creativity Training Method, Educational Anxiety, Academic and Educational Performance,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study is to investigate and evaluate the effectiveness of PRIZ creativity training method over exam anxiety and educational performance among female students of first-grade of high school in 1396-97 school-year in Maragheh county. The methodology of this study has been based upon the quasi-experimental of pretest – posttest design and one control group. The statistical sample of this designation is including all the female students of first-grade of high school in the Maragheh county, which the samples were selected through sampling method and 30 of those students who have gained the highest score in anxiety were selected in that school, and they were assigned into two separate groups of 15-membered experimental groups and control groups. The tools used for collecting data are Fridman anxiety testing questionnaire, and assessing the educational performance of Pham and Taylor, and for the intervention, it has used by PRIZ creativity syllabus program, which has been provided over 8 sessions in half an hour during a four-week program of experimental group. In order to analyze the statistical data of the plot, it has been used by the SPSS software V20. The methodology which is used for the statistics in testing hypothesis was Two-Way Covariance Analysis (Two Way Ancoe). The results attained by the data analysis of these hypothesis showed that the average anxiety of students’ testing and the components of social humiliation, the cognitive errors, and the tension among the control group after the interference has been augmented significantly according to the averages of pretest and the control group. In the stage of posttest, the average of students’ educational performance, and the components of self-efficacy, the impacts of excitement, and making a program in experimental group has been augmented significantly by comparing to the averages of pretest and control group. The result attained from testing the hypothesis showed that the PRIZ creativity training method has a very significant impact in reducing of testing anxiety among female students, and also it is so beneficial in enhancing of academic and educational performances of these female students.  

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