Cognitive Strategies Influencing Academic Achievement of Higher Secondary School Students

Abstract

The study was conducted to find out the metacognitive awareness, learning style preference and newlineacademic achievement of higher secondary school students in Coimbatore district. The sample newlineconsisted of 1005 higher secondary school students. Survey method was used for the study. Schraw newlineand Dennison s tool for metacognitive awareness and self constructed tool for learning style newlinepreference was used for data collection. Correlation analysis revealed that there was a relationship newlinebetween regulation of cognition and its subcomponent evaluation with the academic achievement of newlinethe students. It is also seen that male students possess better metacognitive ability than their female newlinecounterparts and it is also interesting to note that students who read newspaper regularly possess better newlinecognition and they know regulate their cognition better. The finding that Tamil medium students newlinepossess better metacognitive ability reveals the fact that when students learn in their mother tongue newlinetheir thinking ability and cognition is better than when learning in a foreign language. The analysis of newlinedata showed that there is no significant association between type of school and the learning styles newlinenamely visual-verbal, sensing-intuitive, sequential-global. Locale-wise analysis showed that there is newlinesignificant association between locale and learning style preferences namely visual-verbal and newlinesensing-intuitive learning styles. newlinei) Major objectives : newline1. To find out the relationship among metacognitive awareness, learning style preference and the newlineacademic achievement scores of higher secondary students. newline2. To construct and validate a tool on learning style preference. newline3. To find out if there is any statistically significant difference in academic achievement of students newlinebased on their levels of metacognitive awareness.To find out if there is any statistically significant difference in the metacognitive awareness of newlinebased on their learning style preference. newline5. To find out if there is any statistically significant association between learning style