Learning style, personality traits and intelligence as predictors of college academic performance

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 117-128

  Furnham, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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