Correlation between thinking styles and academic achievement

Abstract

The styles depend on the cerebral dominance of an individual in retaining and processing different modes of information in his/her thinking styles. Each student has his/her specific thinking style. Thinking styles may differ from one student to another. Parents and teachers must be aware of the thinking styles of their children and students. They must provide the thinking experiences by considering the learners' thinking styles. Thinking styles are one of the factors that decide the learners' academic achievement. Hence, this study attempted to study the correlation between thinking styles and academic achievement among student-teachers of B.Ed. Programme. A descriptive study has been applied for the conduction of the study. The study has been conducted on a representative sample of 100 student-teachers. Styles of learning and thinking developed by Venkataraman D and academic achievement test developed and validated by the researcher have been used to collect the data. The researcher used the statistical techniques mean, standard deviation and the product-moment correlation coefficient to analyze the data. The study revealed a weak negative correlation between left hemisphere dominance of thinking styles and academic achievement.