Attempted validation of the scores of the VARK: Learning styles inventory with multitrait-multimethod confirmatory factor analysis models

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 323-339

  Leite, Walter L ^a   Svinicki, Marilla ^b   Shi, Yuying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning styles; Method effect; Multitrait multimethod confirmatory factor analysis; Testlet; VARK

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949647785     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164409344507     Document Type: Article

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