the effectiveness of meta cognitive skills training on the reduction of academic procrastination and anxiety exam in female students

article history: received date: 25 september, 2016 review date: 12 october 2016 accepted date:23 november 2016 printed on line: 5 january purpose the aim of the present study was to study the impact of meta cognitive skills training on the reduction of academic procrastination and anxiety exam in male students. material & method: statistical population in this study consisted of all high school female student of bojnourd in 93-94 academic year. 40 students were selected using the multi cluster sampling method and they were placed in two groups as experimental group (20 person) and control group (20 person). the used tools include the anxiety exam (1980) and academic procrastination (1989) questionnaire. this study was a semi- pilot design and its research design (plan) was the pretest - posttest with control group. findings: the data analysis was performed by covariance analysis. the results showed that cognitive-behavioral skills training have a significant effect on the reduction of academic procrastination and anxiety exam in male students of experimental group. in other words, meta cognitive skills training results in reduction of academic procrastination and anxiety exam in male students of experimental group. discussion: through employing meta cognitive skills and self-information, self-awareness, task awareness and learning strategies awareness students can reduce their academic procrastination and anxiety exam.