The influence of business case studies and learning styles in an accounting course: A comment

Accounting Education

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 129-144

  Duff, Angus ^a   Dobie, Alisdair ^a   Guo, Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Approaches to learning; Learning styles; LSI 1985; Psychometric measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 72549103828     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639280701788729     Document Type: Note

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