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Nuttgens, Simon – Research Ethics, 2021
Ethical decision-making is inherent to the research ethics committee (REC) deliberation process. While ethical codes, regulations, and research standards are indispensable in guiding this process, decision-making is nonetheless susceptible to nonrational factors that can undermined the quality, consistency, and perceived fairness REC decisions. In…
Descriptors: Research, Ethics, Decision Making, Research Committees
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Croskerry, Pat; Campbell, Samuel G.; Petrie, David A. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2023
The historical tendency to view medicine as both an art and a science may have contributed to a disinclination among clinicians towards cognitive science. In particular, this has had an impact on the approach towards the diagnostic process which is a barometer of clinical decision-making behaviour and is increasingly seen as a yardstick of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Science, Clinical Diagnosis, Medical Evaluation, Medicine
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Jarvis, Thomas M.; Ellis, Jeri L.; Mobley, Jerry A. – Georgia School Counselors Association Journal, 2018
School counselors work in a unique environment in which there are many contextual variables to consider when making ethical decisions. This article offers a heuristic structure that can give counselors an enhanced perspective in reflecting on context during an ethical review. It also elaborates the differences between modern and post-modern…
Descriptors: School Counselors, School Counseling, Context Effect, Ethics
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Rao, B. Madhu; Xanthopoulos, Petros; Zheng, Qipeng Phil – INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2020
NP-complete problems such as the traveling salesman problem (TSP) play a prominent role in most advanced undergrad/graduate courses in discrete optimization modeling. Teaching such an important topic from a purely mathematical perspective without discussing specific applications may result in reduced student interest and motivation. The DeLand…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Art Materials, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Scheduling
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Johnson, Spencer T.; Ewbank, Ann Dutton – Knowledge Quest, 2018
One of the main responsibilities of school librarians is to teach students to evaluate the credibility of information. There is little evidence to suggest that students are being explicitly taught how to evaluate news obtained through social media. As avenues for giving and getting information evolve, so must ways of teaching students so that they…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Evaluation Methods, News Media, Social Media
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Ryan, Brendan M. – Higher Education Studies, 2017
This paper will apply the work of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in Prospect theory to the college recruiting process. Prospect theory challenges one of the fundamental ideas of Economics; humans are rational creatures and make rational decisions. The theory demonstrates that in fact, often humans do not make rational decisions and are instead…
Descriptors: Heuristics, College Athletics, Social Theories, Student Recruitment
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Joughin, Gordon; Dawson, Phillip; Boud, David – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2017
Despite widespread recognition of the need to improve assessment in higher education, assessment tasks in individual courses are too often dominated by conventional methods. While changing assessment depends on many factors, improvements to assessment ultimately depend on the decisions and actions of individual educators. This paper considers…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Change, Evaluation, Heuristics
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Stanovich, Keith E. – Educational Psychologist, 2016
The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded in 2002 for work on judgment and decision-making tasks that are the operational measures of rational thought in cognitive science. Because assessments of intelligence (and similar tests of cognitive ability) are taken to be the quintessence of good thinking, it might be thought that such measures would…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Cognitive Science, Intelligence Tests
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Wilcox, Gabrielle; Schroeder, Meadow – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2015
Psychoeducational assessment involves collecting, organizing, and interpreting a large amount of data from various sources. Drawing upon psychological and medical literature, we review two main approaches to clinical reasoning (deductive and inductive) and how they synergistically guide diagnostic decision-making. In addition, we discuss how the…
Descriptors: School Psychology, Psychoeducational Methods, Clinical Diagnosis, Thinking Skills
Hutchins, Shaun D.; DeBaylo, Paige Hartman; Williams, Holly – Online Submission, 2018
This report presents a question-driven exploration of growth and achievement data using SAS EVAAS reports. The purpose of this exploration was to bring additional data, information, and ways of thinking about student growth to ongoing district conversations about the measurement of campus-level student growth.
Descriptors: School Districts, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, High Schools
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Patton, Michael Quinn – American Journal of Evaluation, 2014
Theory and practice are integrated in the human brain. Situation recognition and response are key to this integration. Scholars of decision making and expertise have found that people with great expertise are more adept at situational recognition and intentional about their decision-making processes. Several interdisciplinary fields of inquiry…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Neurosciences, Recognition (Achievement)
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Jones, Dennis P.; Johnstone, Sally M. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2016
With very few exceptions colleges and universities of all types--2-year and 4-year, public and private-- are feeling the fiscal pinch. They are caught in the vise of rising expectations and constrained revenues. Public institutions are operating in an environment in which state-level policy-makers press for increasing numbers of graduates,…
Descriptors: Expectation, State Policy, College Graduates, Student Financial Aid
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Kameda, Tatsuya; Tsukasaki, Takafumi; Hastie, Reid; Berg, Nathan – Psychological Review, 2011
We introduce a game theory model of individual decisions to cooperate by contributing personal resources to group decisions versus by free riding on the contributions of other members. In contrast to most public-goods games that assume group returns are linear in individual contributions, the present model assumes decreasing marginal group…
Descriptors: Productivity, Game Theory, Democracy, Decision Making
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Robert, Sarah A. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2012
Education reform continues around the globe, though questioned and critiqued in relation to goals of democratizing educational decision-making. Newspapers are one site of contestation and negotiation where struggles over global reform discourses are contextualized in "obvious" and "natural" local language. In this article, I…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Educational Objectives, Global Education, Foreign Countries
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Rogerson, Mark D.; Gottlieb, Michael C.; Handelsman, Mitchell M.; Knapp, Samuel; Younggren, Jeffrey – American Psychologist, 2011
Most current ethical decision-making models provide a logical and reasoned process for making ethical judgments, but these models are empirically unproven and rely upon assumptions of rational, conscious, and quasi-legal reasoning. Such models predominate despite the fact that many nonrational factors influence ethical thought and behavior,…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Ethics, Models, Behavior
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