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Bohra, Qayum Ali. (1999). Study of Art-Appreciation, Creativity and Cognitive Style of Secondary Students of Rajasthan. Unpublished. Ph.D., Education. Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur , Rajasthan.

The objectives of this were: (1) To find out the level of art appreciation, creativity, cognitive style of Secondary students of Rajasthan. (2) To compare the art-appreciation, creativity, cognitive styles of boys and girls, the rural and urban pupils and the pupils residing in various cultural regions of Rajasthan. (3)To investigate the inter relationship between the three main variables of the study, that is, art-appreciation, creativity, cognitive styles. (4) To construct and standardize a test to measure the level of art-appreciation of the students.

Seven hundred twenty students (360 boys and 360 girls) for Class X of the schools situated in rural and urban areas of the six major cultural regions of Rajasthan (i.e. Mewar, Marwar, Hadauti, Malwa, Shekhawati and Vagar cultural regions) formed the sample of the study.

Art-appreciation Test (AAT) was constructed by the investigator. Baquer Mehdis standardized Creative Thinking Test and Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT) developed by Oltman, Raskin and Witkin were used for the measurement of the creativity and cognitive styles of the subject of the study.

The survey method was employed in this research.

Statistical techniques such as t-Test and analysis of variance were used for analyzing the data of the study.

The findings of this study were: (1) The split-half reliability and the test-retest reliability of all AAT are 0.6192 and 0.765 respectively. This test also has good face validity, content validity and constructs validity. (2) The male and female students of Secondary classes of Rajasthan do not differ significantly in terms of verbal creativity and its components except the ability of elaboration where the difference between male and female is significant. (3)Near about half of the total Secondary students of Rajasthan (46.8%) came under the broad category of global field perceptual performers of field dependent cognitive style. On the other hand less than ¼ of the total students (22.78%) possess analytical field perceptual performance or field independent cognitive style, and the remaining percentage (30.43%) of students possess average field central cognitive style.

Keyword(s): Art-Appreciation, Creativity, Cognitive Style