Cognitive Style of Adolescent Students In Relation to Their Academic Achievement

Exploring the Link 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 5, Issue No. 9, Jan 2013, Pages 0 - 0 (0)

Published by: Ignited Minds Journals

ABSTRACT

In recent years, research in teaching-learning processhas increasingly shifted its emphasis from predictive studies of success andfailure in performance to the under­standing of cognitive processes thatunderlie the performance. Prediction of success and failure in academicperformance could be of secondary importance to the insight into the basiccognitive processes that account for either of these terminal behaviours.

KEYWORD

cognitive style, adolescent students, academic achievement, teaching-learning process, predictive studies, performance, cognitive processes, success, failure, insight