Techniques of Cognitive Processing and their Relation to the Study Progress of the Secondary Stage Students.

Abstract

Abstract

The present paper aims to identify the following:

 1 The techniques of cognitive processing of secondary stage students.

1. The study progress of secondary stage students.
2. The differences of statistical significance between the relationships of cognitive processing techniques and students’ progress in the secondary stage according to sex variable, Specialization .
3. The extent of cognitive processing techniques contribution in the progress of students of the secondary stage.

In order to accomplish these objectives, the researcher has randomly selected a proportional sample that includes 400 students from the directorate of education of Al-Qadisiyah of the academic year 2020-2021. After constructing the study scale of progress depending on the researcher’s definition, similar studies, and literature of studies, the researcher adopted Hussein's cognitive processing (2018) scale based on Craik and Lochart model that consists of 36 items. After getting the psychometric properties as reliability and validity, the two tools are applied to the study sample. It is clear that the technique of deeper cognitive processing is more than the superficial or the intermediate. Moreover, there is a study progress for students of the secondary stage. The results also showed that there are differences in the correlational relationship according to the gender variable and in favor of males, and there are differences in the correlational relationship according to the specialization variable and in favor of the scientific. Also, the results referred to the direct correlation relationship between the two variables. The study shows that the deep cognitive processing technique is more important than the surface or medium one. Depending on these findings, the researcher has concluded a number of recommendations and suggestions.