Student Learning Identities: Developing a Learning Taxonomy for the Political Science Classroom

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• A preliminary draft of this article was delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association in Atlanta, Georgia, January 7, 2006. The authors would like to thank the Center for Teaching Excellence and the Academic Research Division at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York for providing assistance and suggestions in the preparation of this article. The views expressed here are those of the authors and not those of the United States Military Academy or the U.S. Army.
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