Cognitive style preferences among adolescent mathematics achievers : perception, processing and hemisphericity

• Main Author: Lee, Sai Choo.
• Other Authors: Yeap, Lay Leng
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Education::Learning
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20282
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The "fear of Mathematics" exhibited by students, the high attrition rates in Mathematics, the growing concern for improving Mathematics education in a modern industrialized society, and the recent findings which show that cognitive styles is another dimension of individual difference which is linked to academic achievement are some reasons that prompted the implementation of this study.