A STUDY OF COGNITIVE STYLE OF JUNIOR COLLEGE STUDENTS OF SCIENCE STREAM WITH RESPECT TO GENDER AND LOCALITY

Pres ent research aims to compare the cognitive style of Junior College Students studying in science stream with respect to gender and locality. The sample of the study was selected by Stratified Random Sampling method which includes 400 junior college students of Jalna District studying in science stream from rural and urban areas. Tool used for the research was standardized Cognitive style inventory by Dr. Praveen Kumar Jha. Research finding reveals that junior college science stream students’ posses systemati c cognitive style with respect to gender and locality. Male students’ posses’ average level of systematic style whereas in female the level is high. The level of intuitive style among male students is low whereas in female it is average. Result also reveal s that the level of systematic and intuitive style is average among rural and urban science stream students . Further finding reveals that there is significant difference in the systematic and intuitive cognitive style among male and female junior college s tudents of science stream. Also it was found that there is no significant difference in the systematic and intuitive cognitive style respectively among rural and urban junior college students of science stream.