Investigating the Effectiveness of Educational Program Based on Academic Engagement Derived from the Model on Students' Academic Satisfaction

Background: Academic engagement is one of the important educational issues that can affect the academic satisfaction of students to maintain their motivation and will to continue their studies. Objectives: The objective of this research was to determine the effectiveness of the educational program developed based on the model derived from the research on students' academic satisfaction. Methods: This applied research was a pre-test, post-test and follow-up with a control group. The statistical population consisted of all female students of the second year of high school in Sanandaj, who were studying in the academic year of 2022-2023. Using the random sampling method, 40 students whose academic satisfaction scores were low were selected and replaced randomly in two groups of 20 people, experimental and control. The experimental group was taught ten 90-minute sessions of the program based on academic engagement. The members of both groups completed the academic satisfaction questionnaire of Lent et al. The data were also analyzed by mixed variance analysis method in SPSS-25. Results: The results indicated that the average academic satisfaction scores in the experimental group compared to the control group increased significantly in the post-test and follow-up phase. Conclusions: The educational program based on academic engagement has been effective on students' academic satisfaction.