The Habits of mind and its relation with Cognitive Preference of the students’ college of Basic Education

  The research aims to identify: 1-The level of habits of mind of the Department of  Mathematics students in the college of Basic Education of Mustansiriyah University and Diyala University. 2- Level of cognitive preference of the Department of Mathematics students in the college of Basic Education of Mustansiriyah University and Diyala University. 3- The relation between the habits of mind and the cognitive preference of the Department of Mathematics students in the college of Basic Education of Mustansiriyah University and Diyala University. The researchers constructing scale a measure of the habits of the mind, we have produced the scale of the validity and the reliability, The scale becomes  final form is composed of (55) items, and adopted (Zafar,2008) scale of cognitive preference after confirming its validity and the reliability, The scale composed of  final form is (30) items, Then the two scales were applied on the research sample consists of(120)students from the fourth stage of basic education colleges of Mustansiriyah University and Diyala University. To achieve the aims of the research, use the following statistical means :(t-test) for one sample,  (t-test) for tow sample, and a Pearson correlation coefficient, Research results showed to:- 1- The Department of  Mathematics students in the college of Basic Education from both universities Mustansiriya and Diyala have good habits of mind. 2- The Department of  Mathematics students in the college of Basic Education from both universities Mustansiriya and Diyala enjoy all the cognitive styles of cognitive preference but in a few degrees, even if the style differs the other .The principles style was slightly more than the application style, then the critical style, followed by recall style. 3-The result of the relation of the habits of the mind with the cognitive preference was an inverse relation between the habits of the mind with the recall style and vice versa with the critical and the principle and application was a direct relationship.      In the light of the results of the research, the researcher presented some recommendations and suggestions for further and future works.