A study to investigate the effectiveness of successful intelligence training program to increase academic hope

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of successful intelligence training program on academic hopefulness of probation students of Esfahan University of Technology. The research is semi-experimental of pre-test, post-test type with control group. Research population includes all probation students of Esfahan University of Technology. The study chooses 30 female and male students and assigns them randomly into two groups of experimental and control. Experimental group participate in 13 successful intelligence-training sessions for 13 weeks. Research tools consists of, Hope in certain aspects. Statistical analysis is conducted using SPSS18 on inferential statistics level proportionate to data analysis level. Statistical test hypothesis are analyzed through univariate covariance and multivariate covariance analysis. The results show that successful intelligence program training was effective to enhance hopefulness of probation students (p < 0.05). Given the results of present research, successful intelligence program training can be used as an intervention method in order to decrease harms because of dormitory and student life.

Effectiveness of successful intelligence training program: A meta‐analysis

“…Regardless of assessment types, students taught by TSI training outperform those educated by traditional teaching methods (Sternberg, Torff, & Grigorenko, 1998). TSI is usually applied in four ways: examining the relationship between triarchic abilities and academic achievement (Ekinci, 2014), assessing triarchic abilities for entry-level behavior in placement tests relative to scholastic aptitude tests (Stemler, Grigorenko, Jarvin, & Sternberg, 2006;Sternberg, 2006), implementing TSI techniques in psychotherapy training, and practice to aid depressed clients (Kaufman & Singer, 2003 (Malekpour, Shooshtari, Abedi, & Ghamarani, 2016) and academic hope-and reduces academic stress (Samavatian, Latifi, & Abedi, 2014). The principles of TSI have been applied to improve socioemotional outcomes such as motivation, attitude, and perception (Khakpooor, Abedi, & Manshaee, 2019;Zadeh, Abedi, Yousefi, & Aghababaei, 2014).…”

“…TSI training can improve not only intellectual abilities but also psychological qualities—executive functions (Malekpour, Shooshtari, Abedi, & Ghamarani, 2016) and academic hope—and reduces academic stress (Samavatian, Latifi, & Abedi, 2014). The principles of TSI have been applied to improve socioemotional outcomes such as motivation, attitude, and perception (Khakpooor, Abedi, & Manshaee, 2019; Zadeh, Abedi, Yousefi, & Aghababaei, 2014).…”