Assessment of Teacher Behavior and Instruction

Dimensions of student evaluations of teaching.

“…During the last 40 years many scales have been devised for rating characteristics of teaching (see Ryans, 1963, for a recent review). These scales include hundreds of different items, many of which are closely related.…”

Psychophysiological Correlates of Female Teacher Behavior and Emotional Stability: A Seven-Year Longitudinal Investigation

“…They will be validated against in-service teaching performance and information concerning emotional stability and physical health in follow-up studies of these teachers. tionably the worker in this area is confronted by numerous problems as noted by Lucio (1960Lucio ( , 1967 and Ryans (1960Ryans ( , 1963.…”

The Realization of Reliable and Valid Criterion Measures for Special Undergraduate Programs and Courses Aimed at the Development and Expression of Creative Behavior

“…As has been emphasized, any substantial degree of progress in the demonstrable facilitation of teaching for creativity will necessarily rest upon the development of a unified theory of teaching-learning behavior. Among the more promising theories of teaching has been that of Ryans (1963) who proposes an information-system model. The similarities between his model and the basic properties of Guilford's structure-of-intellect as an information-processing model to explain the 1earning process (Guilford, 1963) afford an intriguing challenge for the theoretician with synthesizi~ interests.…”