Relationship between Thinking Styles Inventory and Study Process Questionnaire

This study investigated further the relationship between thinking styles as defined by Sternberg's theory of mental self-government and learning approaches as defined by Biggs's model of student learning. Participants were two independent groups of American university students (N-1 = 67, N-2 = 65). Participants responded to the Thinking Styles Inventory and the Study Process Questionnaire. It was found that the two inventories generally were correlated in predictable ways. This finding confirmed the one obtained in an early study of two Chinese populations. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.