Examining the Relationship of Problem Solving Style to School Achievement in High School Students
Abstract
This study examined the relationship between students' achievement in language arts, mathematics, and science and their problem solving styles. One hundred ninety-seven students in 9th- to 12th-grades from a public high school were administered VIEW: An Assessment of Problem Solving Style. Students' performance on standardized testing and subject grades were drawn from school records. The results indicated a significant relationship between the Developer, Internal, and Task-oriented problem solving style and school achievement. The results of this study suggest that the Developer-Internal-Task-oriented styles of learning have an advantage in the types of achievement typical in schools today. Implications for the desire of instruction and measures for the Explorer style learner who prefers to seek unusual ideas and are perceived as "outside the box" thinkers are discussed.
Subject Area
Educational psychology|Cognitive psychology
Recommended Citation
Casco-Vazquez, Sandra, "Examining the Relationship of Problem Solving Style to School Achievement in High School Students" (2013). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI3589637.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI3589637
