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Development of an Instrument to Measure Teaching Style in Japan: The Teaching Style Assessment Scale
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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
Principles of Adult Learning Scale: Followup and Factor Analysis.
Conti, Gary J. – 1983
In 1978 the Principles of Adult Learning Scale (PALS) was developed to measure the degree of practitioner support of the principles of the collaborative teaching-learning mode for teaching adults. Although the original study with a field test group of 57 produced a valid and reliable 44-item summated rating scale, the stability of the normative…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Attitude Measures
Principles of Adult Learning Scale.
Conti, Gary J. – 1979
The Principles of Adult Learning Scale (PALS) was developed and validated for measuring congruency between adult education practitioners' actual observable classroom behavior and their expressed belief in the collaborative teaching-learning mode. This model is a learner-centered instruction method in which learner and practitioner share authority…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Behavior Rating Scales