Students' performance in accounting: Differential effect of field dependence-independence as a learning style

Psychological Reports

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 135-142

  Bernardi, Richard A ^a  

^a ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTING; ADULT; ARTICLE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STUDENT;

ACCOUNTING; ADULT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; STUDENTS;

EID: 0642314097     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2003.93.1.135     Document Type: Article

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