Simultaneous and Successive Processing of High and Low Academic Achievers

The present study is an attempt to examine and compare the simultaneous and successive processing of high and low academic achievers in grade four students in a government school of Orissa. For the assessment of academic achievement the final examination results of three consecutive years are taken (collected from the school register) in to account. The students, who obtained better score( in examination) are considered to be high academic achiever and the student ,who obtained low score( in examination) are put under the group of low academic achievers. The sample consisted of thirty students of grade four, fifteen from each of the following groups (a) high academic achievers (b) low academic achievers, selected on the basis of the marks obtained by them in the last school examination. The subjects were administered tasks of simultaneous and successive processing. Result revealed that the performance of high achievers in tasks of simultaneous and successive processing was higher than that of their counterpart on the same task.