المعتقدات المعرفية وعلاقتها بالدافعية المعرفية لدى طلبة المرحلة الثانوية
The study aimed at revealing the relationship between epistemological beliefs and cognitive motivation of secondary stage students, and the possibility of predicting cognitive motivation of secondary stage students through their epistemological beliefs., The study sample consisted of (200) male and female secondary school students in Port Said Governorate, and their ages ranged from (15-16) years old, with an average of (15.825), and a standard deviation (0.380), were chosen randomly from the students of the first secondary grade, and the study followed the descriptive correlational approach. The study tools consisted of two scales (epistemological beliefs - cognitive motivation), which were prepared by the researcher and using the SPSS (V22) statistical programs for analyzing and processing the data of the current study and verifying the validity of the hypotheses. In the light of the statistical methods (Pearson correlation coefficient for verifying the first hypothesis, multiple regression coefficient for verifying the second hypothesis). The results of the study showed that there is a statistically significant direct positive correlation between epistemological beliefs and cognitive motivation of secondary stage students at the level of significance (0.01). The cognitive motivation of students can also be predicted through their epistemological beliefs. (Published abstract)