The relationship between entry characteristics, learning style and academic achievement of college freshmen

Higher Education: Teaching, Internationalization and Student Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 277-288

  Donche, Vincent ^a   Petegem, Peter Van ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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