Thinking styles and learning patterns and their relationship to lateral performance

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the the level of university students' learning
patterns. It also examines the level of university students’ learning patterns. The level
of lateral performance among university students and the extent of the contribution of
the independent variables (thinking styles and learning patterns) in predicting the
dependent variable (lateral performance are also explored. To achieve the goal of the
research, (4the students of Al-Mustansiriya University (200 students for each gender
category) were recruited from the research community, College of Basic Education.
Three tools were used, namely (Thinking Styles Scale, Learning patterns Scale,
Lateral Performance Scale). The statistical and psychometric properties of the three
scales were extracted as tools for data collection according to the correlational
research method. The most prominent results indicate that University students have
thinking styles (conservative, external, internal, local). The students have also
learning patterns (realistic, routine), and University students enjoy the right-left
university performance. There is a relative contribution to each of the independent
variables, methods of thinking, in favoring the lateral performance. It reached (beta),
(0,222), which is a significant contribution with a T-value of (4,457). As for learning
patterns, its contribution is weak in favoring lateral performance, as its value reached
(0.037), which is a weak contribution goven that the T value of it, which is (0.743), is
not significant.