Effects of Citizenship Education on Knowledge,Attitude, Subjective Norm and Behavioral Intentionof High School Girls in Shiraz, Southern Iran

Abstractbackground/objective: this study aimed to address theknowledge gap in citizenship education. in other words,there was an attempt to investigate the effect of a citizenshipeducation program on knowledge, attitudes, subjective norms,and behavioral intention of high schools girls.methods: 228 female students, 91 in the experimental and 137in the control groups participated in this study. a questionnairewas used to collect the data. the educational program was runin the experimental group using interactive teaching-learningtechniques. the research data were, then, analyzed in spss,using inferential statistics.results: the mean score of the students’ knowledge in theexperimental group increased from 7.35±1.93 in the pretest to11.14±1.78 in the posttest, while in the control group this scoreremained approximately the same in the pre- and post-tests.the pre- and post-test means of attitude scores were statisticallydifferent, but not in the control group. the pretest mean scoresof the subjective norm in the experimental and control groupswere relatively similar, but in the posttest it became significantlydifferent (experimental: 25.78±3.77, control: 23.40±4.62). thestudents’ behavioral intention score increased from 18.51±2.71to 20.87±3.04 in the experimental group. the mean scores ofintention in the pretest and posttest were not statistically differentin the control group. in the second posttests, the levels of theseconstructs remained unchanged in the control group, but they weresignificantly higher than pretest scores in the experimental group.conclusion: this study revealed the adolescents’ need for as wellas the efficacy of a citizenship education program.