| This study determined cognitive profiles of students in a Midwest private college prep high school and described the relationship between preferred cognitive learning styles and math and reading aptitudes. Krause's Cognitive Profile Model (CPM) was used to establish student profiles; ACT Explore scores were admission data. Test data access consent was obtained for 136 students with usable data. Chi-square goodness of fit tests did not find significant difference in the cognitive profiles of sub-sample (consenting) and sample (562).;Intuitive Feeler (NF) was the participants' predominant cognitive processing style (35.4%); Sensor Feeler (SF) was the second preferred style (29.4%). SFs comprised the largest proportion for females (41.6%), followed by NFs (29.1%); NFs comprised the largest proportion of males (43.8%), followed by Sensor Thinkers (ST) (23.1%), and NTs (19.6%).;At the p = .05 level, there was no significant difference between male and female math scores. At the p = .01 level, there were significant differences in math aptitude between various combinations of cognitive profiles; male and female combined data showed a significant difference between NTs and SFs. Dominant NTs and subdominant groups scored high on the ACT Explore test; various dominant/subdominant categories scored low. A post hoc Bonferroni F test showed the SF/NT group (mean 51.5) as significantly lower than other groups.;In reading comprehension, there were no significant differences at the p = .05 level among the four major cognitive profile groups, and no significant difference in dominant/subdominant profile classifications.;NFs comprised the largest proportion of each ability track: advanced, regular, and basic. There were numerous SFs in both regular (30.6%) and basic tracks (30.6%), a large proportion of whom were young women. Sixty to 68% of each track comprised NF and SF cognitive profile preference students. NFs comprised the largest cognitive profile of all tracks, which suggested similarity in typical classroom composition. SFs were the second largest group, followed by STs and NTs.;A fair correlation (0.56) existed between math aptitude and reading comprehension. The relationship between the two variables was stronger for males (.63) than for females (.54). |
