title: Methodology of determining student's cognitive styles and its application for teaching physics.
abstract: A psychological foundation of differentiation of learning on the basis of students' individual characteristics (cognitive styles) with orientation to physics education in high school is discussed. The computer testing technique for preliminary determination of students' cognitive styles is proposed. It is based on the assumed connection between test parameters and parameters of degree of manifestation of cognitive style. The combined method of refining students' cognitive styles, based on the observations of their learning activity, is proposed. Personality traits, characterizing particular cognitive styles, are determined.
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, Nizhny Novgorod State University, Gagarin Avenue, 23, building 3, Nizhny Novgorod, Gagarin, Russia.
authors.forename: Igor V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Grebenev
authors.affiliation: Pedagogic. Physics Department, Nizhny Novgorod State University, Avenue, 23, building 3, Nizhny Novgorod, Gagarin, Russia.
authors.forename: Ludmila B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Lozovskaya
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, 727 E Third St., Swain Hall West, Indiana, USA.
authors.forename: Ekaterina O
authors.initials: EO
authors.lastname: Morozova
keywords: Cognitive styles; Differentiation of learning; Testing