The Predictive Power of Reasoning Ability on Academic Achievement

Mehraj Ahmad Bhat

Abstract


The present study examined the contribution of six components of reasoning ability (inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, linear reasoning, conditional reasoning, cause-and-effect reasoning and analogical reasoning) to explain the variation in academic achievement of class 10th students. Through stratified random sampling technique five hundred and ninety eight students solved 35 contextualized different components of reasoning problems standardised by the investigator. The different components of reasoning ability were assessed with help of automatic linear modelling.  The predictive power of various components of reasoning ability for academic achievement was 31.5 %. Out of the six dimensions of reasoning ability, the maximum involvement is of made by deductive reasoning 4.9% followed by cause and effect reasoning 2.6% inductive reasoning 1.6%, linear reasoning 0.5%, conditional reasoning 0.3% and analogical reasoning 0.2% on academic achievement. The results drawn with the help of this method showed greater accuracy and authenticity.


Keywords


Reasoning Ability; Academic Achievement; Predictive Power

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