Session

Education and Development

Description

In a fast-changing world, knowing one’s strengths is a definite advantage. It is one’s thinking style that provides such an edge. Knowing about thinking styles not only helps universities to be more effective and efficient, but also assists students in improving their academic performance. The scope of this paper is to study the correlation that exists between thinking styles and the elements of contemporary methods. Another objective of this research is analyzing the thinking styles of students. The study sample consists of 186 students of universities in Albania. The statistical analyses adopted in this study are: Pearson’s correlation coefficient, the distribution table, and the One-Way ANOVA test. In order to analyze the data, SPSS 20 and JASP-8.0.1.2 have been used. It ensues from the study that thinking styles affect two elements of contemporary methods. Most students belong to the concrete-sequential thinking style. The element which students prefer the most is brainstorming. Further, the way in which the elements are assessed changes from one thinking style to the other.

Keywords:

thinking styles, concrete-sequential thinking style, brainstorming

Session Chair

Mary M. Somerville

Session Co-Chair

Karoly Nagy

Proceedings Editor

Edmond Hajrizi

ISBN

978-9951-437-66-0

First Page

84

Last Page

89

Location

Durres, Albania

Start Date

28-10-2017 11:00 AM

End Date

28-10-2017 12:30 PM

DOI

10.33107/ubt-ic.2017.121

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Thinking styles through the elements of contemporary methods

Durres, Albania

In a fast-changing world, knowing one’s strengths is a definite advantage. It is one’s thinking style that provides such an edge. Knowing about thinking styles not only helps universities to be more effective and efficient, but also assists students in improving their academic performance. The scope of this paper is to study the correlation that exists between thinking styles and the elements of contemporary methods. Another objective of this research is analyzing the thinking styles of students. The study sample consists of 186 students of universities in Albania. The statistical analyses adopted in this study are: Pearson’s correlation coefficient, the distribution table, and the One-Way ANOVA test. In order to analyze the data, SPSS 20 and JASP-8.0.1.2 have been used. It ensues from the study that thinking styles affect two elements of contemporary methods. Most students belong to the concrete-sequential thinking style. The element which students prefer the most is brainstorming. Further, the way in which the elements are assessed changes from one thinking style to the other.