Comparing the means of the scores i

Comparing the means of the scores in Test 1 and Test 2 in Table 3 , it is seen that there is a similar trend relating the various independent variables to the students’ abilities in solving operational and word problems in mathematics. However, it appears quite consistently; the students’ abilities in solving operational problems are much better than their abilities in solving
word problems irrespective of their differences in basic mathematical skills, language skills, field-dependence-field independence cognitive style, ethnicity and gender.