Schmeck's inventory of learning process, a measure of learning styles, was administered to 925 undergraduate students in Jordan. Analysis indicated that the four factors in Schmeck's conception of learning styles explained a total of only 20.8% of the variance. Schmeck's conception of learning did not describe adequately the learning styles of these Arabic university students.
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