Learning styles, classroom environment preferences, teaching, styles, and remedial course outcomes for underprepared adults at a two-year college

Community College Review

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-19

  Miglietti, Cynthia L ^a   Strange, Carney ^b  

^a Firelands College in Huron   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33947434470     PISSN: 00915521     EISSN: 19402325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/009155219802600101     Document Type: Article

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