Assessment of students' learning styles preferences in the faculty of science, Tishreen University, Syria

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 4087-4091

  Ismail, Abdullatif ^a   Hussain, Raja Maznah Raja ^a   Jamaluddin, Shahrir ^a  

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Author keywords

cross tabulation; kruskal wallis test; learning preferences; Learning styles; mann whitney test

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957699089     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.645     Document Type: Conference Paper

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