Measuring Learning Styles with Questionnaires Versus Direct Observation of Preferential Choice Behavior in Authentic Learning Situations: The Visualizer/Verbalizer Behavior Observation Scale (VV-BOS)

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 543-557

  Leutner, Detlev ^a   Plass, Jan L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CORRELATION METHODS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

LEARNING STYLES; VISUALIZER/VERBALIZER BEHAVIOR OBSERVATION SCALE (VV-BOS);

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 0032309575     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0747-5632(98)00023-5     Document Type: Article

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