The potential of the inventory of learning styles to study students' learning patterns in three types of medical curricula

Medical Teacher

Volumn 30, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 863-869

  Van der Veken, J ^a   Valcke, M ^a   Muijtjens, A ^b   De Maeseneer, J ^a   Derese, A ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEARNING STYLE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; STUDENT ATTITUDE; VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BELGIUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CURRICULUM; IN VITRO STUDY; LEARNING; MEDICAL SCHOOL; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BELGIUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; LEARNING; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 63449117247     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590802141167     Document Type: Article

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