The Impacts of Cognitive Style on School-Based Saudi Education Students' Problem Solving Ability in English Language

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to find out how cognitive style and problem complexity affected the problem-solving abilities of school-based Saudi education students taking a Saudi power and technology class. The method of this research is the analytical method, through which statistical methods used in analyzing the research data of questionnaire study achieve the objectives of the research. Study tool, the research will use the electronic questionnaire form as a tool for the field study by preparing the questionnaire and its axes and phrases by using the theoretical framework of the study, previous studies related to the subject of the study. The five-degree Likert scale was used in answering the questions of the study tool. The sample was in total, 77 students volunteered to take part in the research. Sixty-eight of them finished the entire study and successfully detected the defect in their allocated. The research used the SPSS23 to analyze the data of questionnaire. The result indicated that there is a statistically significant impact of Cognitive Style on School-Based Saudi Education Students' Problem-Solving Ability in English language and the impact is positive.

Keywords: Cognitive Style, Problem Complexity, Problem-Solving Ability, School-Based Education

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/13-30-08

Publication date:October 31^st 2022