Assessing and validating a learning styles instrument

System

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-16

  DeCapua, Andrea ^a   Wintergerst, Ann C ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ESL EFL; Learning styles; Learning styles instruments

Indexed keywords

EID: 13644274019     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2004.10.003     Document Type: Article

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