Predictive value of academic achievement in the light of some cognitive variables high school students

Abstract

Research Aims: The Current Research Is Aim To Determine The Predictive Value Of The Variables: Cognitive Style (Dependent/ Independent), Strategy Of Information Processing (Simultaneity /Succession) And The Ability To Solve Problems As A Predictor Variables Of Academic -Scholastic- Achievement (Which Measured By GPA) Among High School's Students In Yanbu City. The Instruments: The Researcher Used the Group Embedded Figures Test (Geft) Which Developed by Witkin, Dyk, Faterson and Goodenough (1971) And Standardized to Saudi Culture by Al-Khodari & Al-Sharqawi (1989). Simultaneity Succession Tasks Prepared by The Researcher and Tasks Ability to Solve Problems Test Which Prepared by Al- Mohammadi (2010). The Sample: The Current Research Is Applied Among (319) High School's Students in Yanbu City. The Research's Instruments Is Implemented-After Standardization on The Student Sample Which Selected From (8) High School - In the Second (2nd) Semester of The Year 1435/ 1436 H. Statistical methods: The Researcher Is Used a Statistical Methods: Correlation Coefficient of Pearson Test, T-Test (Independent Samples), One-Way Analysis Of Variance Test –Anova- And Multiple Linear Regression Analysis Test By Stepwise Way. Results: The Current Research Found a Following Results: - Possibility Of Predict the Academic Achievement Through the Cognitive Style (Dependent/ Independent) And Strategies of Information Processing (Simultaneity/ Succession) While the ability to solve problems was not a predictor of academic achievement.