A Comparison of the Relationship between Thinking Styles and Learning Strategies with Academic Performance among Female Students in Yazd State and Azad Universities
Subject Areas : Quarterly Journal of Woman and Society
1 - استادیار گروه روانشناسی و علوم تربیتی دانشگاه یزد
Keywords: Thinking Styles, academic performance, Learning Approaches, Yazd University, Azad University,
Abstract :
This research was done to compare the relationship between thinking styles and learning strategy with academic performance among the female students in Yazd state and Azad university. This was a descriptive – correlation. Using classified sampling, 195 female students of Azad University and 130 female students of Yazd University were selected. Sternberg- Wagner’s thinking Styles Questionnaire, ASSIST learning strategies and Dortaj’s academic performance Questionnaire were used for data collection. Data were analyzed by Pierson’s' correlation coefficient method, multiple regression using enter method and t-test. The results showed a positive significant relationship between all thinking styles and strategic and deep learning approaches with academic performance and just it was no significant relationship between surface learning approach and academic performance. Also among thinking styles, conservative and global and among learning strategies, only the strategic learning approach were involved in the prediction of academic performance. Students in both universities were significantly different in liberal thinking style and strategic and deep learning approaches. According to the present results it can be concluded that thinking styles and learning strategies have an effective role in academic performance.
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