Cognitive Styles are Varied with Academic Achievement among College Students

This study reports an investigation of cognitive style and academic achievement among college students. Systematic and intuitive cognitive style is a dimension of cognitive style that has been studied with various student groups by worldwide psychologist. In the present study, the standardized cognitive style inventory developed by Dr. Praveen Kumar Jha was used to assess cognitive style of 120 college students. The study initiated with postulation that cognitive styles are varied with academic achievement. One-way analysis of variance and Scheffe's post-hoc multiple analyses were used to analyze the data. The finding indicate that student's level of systematic cognitive style are differ with academic achievement while intuitive cognitive are not.