Coping with mismatched courses: Students' behaviour and performance in courses mismatched to their learning styles

Educational Technology Research and Development

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 739-752

  Kinshuk, ^a   Liu, Tzu Chien ^b   Graf, Sabine ^b  

^a ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adaptivity; Learning styles; Mismatched courses; Student performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450235408     PISSN: 10421629     EISSN: 15566501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11423-009-9116-y     Document Type: Article

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