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An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology
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EDITORIAL ARTICLE

Cognitive Styles—an overview and integration

Richard Riding Assessment Research Unit, University of Birmingham, England
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Indra Cheema Assessment Research Unit, University of Birmingham, England
Pages 193-215 | Published online: 25 Nov 2010
 
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Abstract

This review article considered the nature of styles and strategies and then surveyed work on cognitive styles. Different researchers have used a variety of labels for the styles they have investigated. Analysis of the way in which they assessed style, its effect on behaviour and performance, and studies of the relationship to other labels, suggested that the labels may be grouped into two principal cognitive styles. These were labelled the Wholist‐Analytic and Verbialiser‐Imager dimensions. A computer presented method of assessing the position of an individual on these dimensions was described.

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