Cognitive Style In Relation to Academic Achievement

Exploring the Relationship between Cognitive Style and Academic Achievement

by Manish Sharma*,

- Published in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education, E-ISSN: 2230-7540

Volume 4, Issue No. 8, Oct 2012, Pages 0 - 0 (0)

Published by: Ignited Minds Journals


ABSTRACT

Inrecent years, research in teaching-learning process has increasingly shiftedits emphasis from predictive studies of success and failure in performance tothe under­standing of cognitive processes that underlie the performance.Prediction of success and failure in academic performance could be of secondaryimportance to the insight into the basic cognitive processes that account foreither of these terminal behaviour.

KEYWORD

cognitive style, academic achievement, teaching-learning process, predictive studies, performance, cognitive processes, success, failure, terminal behavior