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Nicolaou, Aristoklis Andreas; Xistouri, Xenia – Educational Psychology, 2011
Field dependence/independence cognitive style was found to relate to general academic achievement and specific areas of mathematics; in the majority of studies, field-independent students were found to be superior to field-dependent students. The present study investigated the relationship between field dependence/independence cognitive style and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Grade 6, Self Supporting Students, Academic Achievement
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Papadouris, Nicos; Constantinou, Constantinos P. – Learning and Instruction, 2010
The present study explores the approaches employed by sixth-grade students to compare rival solutions in socio-scientific decision-making situations. Data were collected using three specially developed open-ended tasks. Two of them were administered to 96 students in a written form while the third was administered to 20 of these students through…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Grade 6, Task Analysis