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Preference for Intuition and Deliberation and its relationship with learning outcomes
Čavojová Vladimíra Institute of Experimental Psychology Slovak Academy of Sciences (SLOVAKIA)
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Background• IT technologies and their effective management are
crucial for today success of private companies. Therefore, it is very important to prepare students for the proper usage and mast
• Learning how to use new complex software, compare different software packages, or analyse specific Corporation IT status are complex cognitive activities – requiring to work systematically, be attentive, thoughtful, and systematic, plan and have main goal in mind.
• It could be expected that they are closely connected with deliberative thinking and those who prefer this type of thinking should have advantage against those who rely on intuitive thinking or emotions.
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Aim of the paper• to investigate relationship between cognitive style
(measured by PID inventory) and different learning outcomes (measured by study results in five different tasks).
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Participants• 75 students (53 women) of University of
Economics in Slovakia • course Managerial Informatics • Mean age = 21 years • Data were collected in ten sessions in 2012 from
respondents from Slovakia. • No exclusion criteria or any restriction for
participants were implemented
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Materials• Measuring learning outcomes
• 4 tasks (30% points from total evaluation): • accounting software Alpha (5 points) and Omega (7
points) from Kros Corporation• ability to search in internet, compare data and answer 30
questions about ERP software (8 points)• case study of real specific company (10 points)
• 1 final exam (70% points from total evaluation): based on memorizing
• Measuring cognitive style• Preference for Intuition and Deliberation (PID) inventory --
deliberative thinking (9 questions) and intuitive thinking (9 questions)
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Results: Correlations between PID subscales and specific study results for all respondents
N = 75 Alpha software
Omega software
Specific company case study
ERP information search
Exam memorizing
PID-D r = .104;
p = .374
r = .091;
p = .435
r = .083;
p = .481
r = .128;
p = .272
r = .046;
p = .698
PID-I r = .084
p = .481
r = -.05;
p = .669
r = .096;
p = .414
r = .156;
p = .181
r = -.186;
p = .110
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Results: Correlations between PID subscales and specific study results for men
Men, N = 22
Alpha software
Omega software
Specific company case study
ERP information search
Exam memorizing
PID deliberative scale
r = .286;
p = .197
r = .430;
p = .046
r = .102;
p = .652
r = .559;
p = .007
r = .554;
p = .008
PID intuitive scale
r = .245
p = .272
r = .219;
p = .326
r = .079;
p = .725
r = .341;
p = .120
r = .267;
p = .229
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Results: Correlations between PID subscales and specific study results for women
Women, N = 53
Alpha software
Omega software
Specific company case study
ERP information search
Exam memorizing
PID deliberative scale
r = -.111;
p = .427
r = -.022;
p = .876
r = .037;
p = .793
r = -.117;
p = .404
r = -.147;
p = .292
PID intuitive scale
r = -.115
p = .413
r = -.116;
p = .410
r = .055;
p = .698
r = .121;
p = .388
r = -.335;
p = .014
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Discussion• Deliberative and intuitive types of participants differed
significantly only in two tasks that were based on the same principle (i.e. Alpha and Omega tasks), where deliberative students showed significantly better results than intuitive students.
• Gender differences were observable in Omega software learning, where more deliberative men had higher points in Omega software study results. Deliberative men also had higher points in the Exam memorizing and regression analysis showed with very strong effect. On the other hand, more intuitive women tended to receive lower scores in memorizing for exam.
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Conclusion• Cognitive style inventory PID, designed for
measuring deliberation and affective intuition, is measuring preferred cognitive style, but is not very useful for measuring or predicting students´ performance in learning.
• It seems that being deliberative or intuitive has no relationship to learning outcomes and receiving better grades in university.
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EDULEARN14 7th-8th July 2014, Barcelona
Thank you for attention.
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