College students' role models, learning style preferences, and academic achievement in collaborative teaching: Absolute versus relativistic thinking

Adolescence

Volumn 43, Issue 169, 2008, Pages 129-142

  Chiou, Wen Bin ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; ROLE PLAYING; STUDENT; TEACHING; THINKING; UNIVERSITY;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; ROLE; STUDENTS; TEACHING; THINKING; UNIVERSITIES;

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