1997 Volume 38 Issue 2 Pages 113-119
Using Embedded Figure Test, we classified students on the basis of field dependent and field independent typs. There were three groups: two students whose cognitive style were field dependent (the field dependent group) ; two students whose cognitive style were field independent (the field independent group) ; and two studensts whose cognitive style were field dependent and field independent (the mixed group). Each group was instructed to observe plants, and they were free to report whatever they wished. The results showed that the students of the mixed group found more points of observation than those of the field independent group in both the microscopic and macroscopic observations.