Cognitive Styles: Some Recent Ideas of Relevance to Teachers

Child, Dennis

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-07599-7_5

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“…They can be seen as "stable, traitlike consistencies in one's approach to attending, thinking and perceiving" (Schmeck 1988) which are independent of general ability and "reflect the fundamental make up of a person and have a physical basis" (Riding 1996). Numerous attempts have been made to identify cognitive style and describe its nature and implications for leaming, and as long ago as 1986, Child (1986) suggested there was a growing need for rationalisation. Riding and Cheema (1991) after conducting a survey of cognitive style Iabels suggested that these could be assigned into two principal, and independent from each other, cognitive style dimensions.…”

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2002

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This paper reports on a study of the effects that cognitive style may exercise on information retrieval strategies. The background to the research project, the nature of cognitive style and the ways in which it may influence the leaming process are discussed. Analysis of research data revealed that students' Iack of information retrieval skills disallowed wide differences to emerge in terms of searching strategies. Some interesting tendencies and consistent preferences were identified with respect to the Wholist-Analytic style. The pape:r concludes by considering the possible existence of a searching style and discussing its interpretation. D. Watson et al. (eds.

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Section: Cognitive Stylesmentioning

confidence: 99%