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Sahin, Feride; Ates, Salih – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2023
The aim of this study is to examine whether the structural model that Sahin and Ates (2020) put forward about the relationship among students' scientific literacy levels, logical thinking ability, cognitive styles, mental capacity, and mental rotation ability differ in terms of gender. A causal-comparative model approach was used in this study.…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Correlation, Individual Differences, Gender Differences
Kamid; Rusdi, M.; Fitaloka, Olva; Basuki, Fibrika Rahmat; Anwar, Khairul – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2020
This research aimed to determine the differences of mathematical communication skills based on cognitive styles and gender. This research was a mixed-method with sequential explanatory design. The population was grade XI students at Senior High School in Jambi City consisting of 53 male and 72 female students. The study used a total sampling. The…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Communication Skills, Cognitive Style, Gender Differences
Keskin, Murat – Open Journal for Educational Research, 2021
The study aimed to determine whether there is a difference between the perceptions of pre-service teachers' problem-solving skills according to various factors. 297 pre-service teachers from Afyon Kocatepe University Faculty of Education in the province of Afyonkarahisar in Turkey participated in the study. The group hidden figures test was used…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Problem Solving
Altintas, Sedat; Görgen, Izzet – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2018
The main purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of prospective teachers' cognitive styles on learning approaches. It is aimed to define whether exist significance differences between defining prospective teachers' cognitive styles and learning approaches and demographic variables within the scope of the mean purpose. The study,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Preservice Teachers, Gender Differences, Academic Achievement
Onyekuru, Bruno Uchenna – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This is a descriptive study that investigated the relationships among field dependence-field independence cognitive style and gender, career choice and academic achievement of secondary school students in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria. From the initial sample of 320 senior secondary school one (SS1) students drawn from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Style, Career Choice, Academic Achievement
Ubuz, Behiye; Aydinyer, Yurdagül – Journal of Educational Research, 2019
The authors in a convergent parallel mixed method design aimed to investigate whether and how the geometry knowledge and attitude toward geometry of students with field-dependent/independent cognitive style improve differentially within a project-based learning environment. Quantitative data were collected from 97 seventh-grade students before and…
Descriptors: Geometry, Mathematics Instruction, Cognitive Style, Student Attitudes
Yaman, Hakan; Dündar, Sefa; Ayvaz, Ülkü – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2015
The aim of this study is to reveal whether there is relation between achievement motivations of teacher candidates according to their cognitive styles and motivation styles or not. This study was designed as a quantitative study due to collecting quantitative data and running statistical analyses. Both comparative and correlational survey methods…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Cognitive Style, Gender Differences
Chin, Kai-Yi; Lee, Ko-Fong; Chen, Yen-Lin – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
This paper proposes a novel interactive ubiquitous learning system (IULS) for authentically teaching a cultural heritage course and imparting relevant concepts to students. Experimental results demonstrated that learning performance was significantly improved after students used the IULS. This study also demonstrated that students using the IULS…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Cultural Background, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology
Yazici, Ersen – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2014
Introduction: Spatial skills have been a significant area of research in educational psychology for more years and it has two major dimensions as spatial visualization and spatial orientation. Mathematics educators acknowledge the influence of cognitive styles in the learning of mathematics. There are various recognized cognitive styles in the…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Preservice Teachers, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis
Smith-Sterling, Carolyn L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine whether faculty members with cognitive styles that match the cognitive styles of their department chairpersons are more effective than faculty members whose cognitive styles do not match that of their department chairpersons. Additionally, this study investigated the relationship between faculty members'…
Descriptors: Department Heads, College Faculty, College Students, Student Attitudes
Al-Salameh, Emad M. – International Education Studies, 2011
This study aims to investigate the (field-dependent & field-independent) cognitive style and its relation with gender, academic specialization and GPA among BAUS. A stratified sample of (600) Students was chosen. The Arabic version of GEFT was administrated. Results can be summarized as follows: There were no statistically significant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Style, College Students, Gender Differences
Awofala, Adeneye O. A.; Arigbabu, Abayomi A.; Awofala, Awoyemi A. – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2013
The study investigated the relative effectiveness of framing and team assisted individualised (TAI) instructional strategies on the attitudes toward mathematics of 350 senior secondary school year two Nigerian students. The moderating effects of gender and style of categorisation were also examined. The study adopted pre-test and post-test control…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Educational Strategies, Secondary School Mathematics, Student Attitudes
Guillot, Aymeric; Champely, Stephane; Batier, Christophe; Thiriet, Patrice; Collet, Christian – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2007
This study investigated the relationship between visuo-spatial representation, mental rotation (MR) and functional anatomy examination results. A total of 184 students completed the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT), Mental Rotation Test (MRT) and Gordon Test of Visual Imagery Control. The time spent on personal assignment was also considered.…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Spatial Ability, Gender Differences, Visualization
Hite, Clare E. – Reading Research and Instruction, 2004
The purpose of this investigation was to determine if cognitive style (field dependence/independence [FD/I]) and gender interact with passage content to affect reading comprehension. Research on FD/I and its relationship to reading-related and other academic tasks served as the theoretical and empirical basis for the study. While most of the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Style, Gender Differences, Cognitive Ability
Massa, Laura J.; Mayer, Richard E.; Bohon, Lisa M. – Learning & Individual Differences, 2005
The gender role hypothesis posits that performance on a cognitive ability test is influenced by whether the test instructions frame the test as measuring a skill that is consistent or inconsistent with the test taker's gender role beliefs. The Bem sex role inventory was used to measure the gender role of female college students, and the group…
Descriptors: Females, Cognitive Ability, Spatial Ability, Empathy