COGNITIVE STYLES OF HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS TEACHERS D. Srinivas Kumar Professor & Chairman-BOS, Dept of Education & HRD Dravidian University, Srinivasavanam, Kuppam – 517 426, Chittoor District (AP), India K.Nagaraju Lecturer, Sri Srinivasa Junior College Pedda Vadugur Mandal, Anantapuram District (A.P.) ABSTRACT The chief objective of the present study is to profile the cognitive styles of high school Mathematics teachers. It is based on data collected from 72 high school Mathematics teachers. Simple random sampling technique has been used to collect the sample. The Cognitive Style Inventory (CSI) has been used as tool to collect the data. Results indicate that the high school Mathematics teachers possess three types of cognitive styles, namely, split cognitive style, integrated cognitive style, and undifferentiated cognitive style. It has also been found that there exists difference in cognitive styles of teachers based on variation in their gender and types of management of their schools. Keywords: Cognitive Style, Systematic cognitive style, Intuitive cognitive style, Integrated cognitive style, Undifferentiated cognitive style, Split cognitive style, high school Mathematics teacher srjis/srjis_new/index.php/using-joomla/extensions/components/content-component/article-categories/651-cognitive-styles-of-high-school-mathematics-teachers-srjhs
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 07:36:22 +0000
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