Fostering Academic Resilience of Students at Risk of Failure at Secondary School Level
This study aimed at fostering academic resilience of non resilient at risk students through an intervention program using an activity based module aiming at fostering protective factors creativity, internal locus of control, self concept, self esteem, self efficacy, autonomy, sense of purpose in life, optimism, a good sense of humor and teacher student relationship. Sixty four (N=64) at risk of failure, 9 th and 10 th grade students from a public secondary school were identified which were later randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. A Resilience Assessment Scale developed by the researchers was administered to measure specific risk indicators like socio economic status, academic issues, homelessness, health issues and negative life events. One of the researchers played as a resilience teacher. The treatment continued for three months. The pre test and post test analysis revealed that the intervention was significantly effective in enhancing students" academic resilience in overall and by each selected protective factor.