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1Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis 46202.
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Faculty in academic and service settings are searching for mechanisms for improving effectiveness and efficiency of teaching students with diverse learning styles. This article describes the Dunn, Dunn, and Price Productivity Environmental Preference Survey (PEPS), a computerized learning style inventory, that provides both individual and group summaries for learning style preference on 20 subscales. The validity and reliability of the instrument for nurses is reported. Practical suggestions are offered for using the individual and group results of the inventory. The use of the inventory has added benefits of improving computer literacy for novice users.
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