THE The Relationship Between Home Educational Background and Cognitive Style of Secondary School Pupils

Abstract

The study was to investigate the relationship between Home Educational Background and Cognitive Style of secondary school pupils. The sample selected was 600 pupils of Ernakulam district and normative survey was the method of investigation. The tools used were Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT) of Oltman,et.al,1971 for assessing Cognitive Style and Home Educational Background Rating Scale(2006) for assessing the educational level of parents which is prepared by the investigator. The findings of the study showed that there exists significant relationship between Home Educational Background and Cognitive Style. The positive correlation shows that when Home Educational Background increases Cognitive Style increases for the sub sample, Boys, Girls, Malayalam Medium students, students in Private management schools and for the total sample. But there exists no significant relationship between Home Educational Background and Cognitive Style        for English medium students and for students of Government schools.