Student views on effective, and ineffective learning in graduate level applied statistics courses

What is it that makes the difference for students? What is their perspective on what benefited or hindered their learning in a first statistics class? Additionally, can students' reasons be categorized based on different student characteristics or learning styles? To answer these questions, the present investigation is a qualitative follow-up to a quantitative analysis that was aimed at determining relationships among learning styles, academic programs, background variables and attitude toward statistics.