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Yoshida, Fumiko; Conti, Gary J.; Yamauchi, Toyoaki; Iwasaki, Takaaki – Journal of Adult Education, 2014
Teaching style has been a popular concept for many years. Teaching style refers to the distinct qualities displayed by a teacher that are persistent from situation to situation regardless of the content. The Principles of Adult Learning Scale (PALS) has been used extensively in the West for measuring teaching style in relationship to the adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Styles, Test Construction, Adult Learning
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Wine, Byron; Gilroy, Shawn; Hantula, Donald A. – Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 2012
This study examined the temporal stability of employee preferences for rewards over seven monthly evaluations. Participants completed a ranking stimulus preference assessment monthly, and the latter six monthly assessments were compared to the initial assessment. Correlations of preferences from month to month ranged from r = -0.89 to 0.99.…
Descriptors: Personnel Evaluation, Employees, Preferences, Incentives
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Kerby, Dave S.; Ragan, Katie M. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2002
Leisure activities are widely used in research to predict important outcomes, but the existing studies use different classification schemes and apparently rely on the intuition of the researcher to classify activities. The goal of the current study was to use the Holland RIASEC personality system to empirically classify activities using a sample…
Descriptors: Multidimensional Scaling, Recreational Activities, Predictor Variables, Classification