Learning Styles Research: Understanding how Teaching Should be Impacted by the Way Learners Learn Part III: Understanding how Learners' Personality Styles Impact Learning
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Learning Styles Research: Understanding how Teaching Should be Impacted by the Way Learners Learn Part III: Understanding how Learners' Personality Styles Impact Learning
Over the years, educators have asked questions about how people learn. In this series of articles, the importance of learning styles has been explored from both the instructors' and students' perspectives. In this third and final article, the correlation between a student's personality and his preferred learning style is examined and implications explored for Christian education contexts.
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