Learning Styles of Students in a College of Agriculture
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A number of factors that influence the educational process have emerged from research on human developmental stages and life phases. Learning style is one factor researchers claimed influence student educational performance (Dunn & Dunn, 1979; Claxton & Murrell, 1987; Garger & Guild, 1984; Saracho, 1989; Witkin, 1973). Gregorc (1979) described learning style as “consisting of distinctive behaviors which serve as indicators of how a person learns from and adapts to his/her environment. It also gives clues as to how a person’s mind operates” (p. 234).
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