Impact of Demographic Variables on Cognitive Styles of High School Students

Abstract

A study was conducted on 240 high school going children to find out the impact of selected demographic variables on Cognitive styles. The sample consisted of 240 high school boys and girls. Cognitive Styles inventory by Praveen Kumar Jha was used to assess the cognitive styles of the subjects. To test the hypotheses the data was interpreted using ‘t’ test. Results revealed that there is significant influence gender, locality, age of the subjects, type of management and medium of instruction are shown significant effect on their cognitive styles. Girls, subjects resided in urban areas, subjects above 14+ age group, studying in private schools and English medium students are better in their cognitive styles than their counter parts.