Reliability, validity, and investigation of the index of learning styles in a Chinese language version for late adolescents of Taiwanese

Adolescence

Volumn 44, Issue 176, 2009, Pages 827-850

  Ku, David Tawei ^a   Shen, Chun Yi ^a  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STUDENT; TAIWAN; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; STUDENTS; TAIWAN;

EID: 77952784960     PISSN: 00018449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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