出版社：The International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE)
摘要：The present study was designed to examine the effect of medium of instruction on the development of cognitive processes. For this purpose, a sample of 80 children, 40 each from grade IV (aged 8-9 years) and grade VI (aged 10-11 years) were selected. In each age group, 20 children were studying in an English medium school and the other 20 in an Odia medium school. All the children were administered two tests each of planning, attention, simultaneous, and successive processing. The data were statistically analyzed with the help of 2 (medium of instruction) X 2 (grade) Analyses of Variance. The results revealed significant main effects of medium of instruction for almost all the measures of cognitive processes suggesting higher performance level of the English medium school children in comparison to their Odia medium counterparts. The cognitive processes were found to be developmentally sensitive as evident from significant main effects of grade. The results were discussed within the framework of PASS model.
