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Meyer, Helen – Education Sciences, 2018
In this paper, I share the results of a study of teachers' ideas about student decision-making at entry into a professional development program to integrate engineering into their instruction. The framework for the Engineering Design Process (EDP) was based on a Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) model. The EDP embedded within the CBL model suggests…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Engineering Education
Bosshardt, William; Walstad, William B. – Journal of Economic Education, 2018
The authors investigate the relationship between undergraduate economics coursework or majoring in economics and the debt behavior of the college graduates. The data come from the Baccalaureate and Beyond (B&B) longitudinal survey of the National Center for Education Statistics. College graduates who took courses in undergraduate economics or…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Outcomes of Education, Money Management, Undergraduate Study
Colakkadioglu, Oguzhan; Celik, D. Billur – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Problem Statement: Decision making is a critical cognitive process in every area of human life. In this process, the individuals play an active role and obtain outputs with their functional use of decision-making skills. Therefore, the decision-making process can affect the course of life, life satisfaction, and the social relations of an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decision Making Skills, Training, Program Effectiveness
Randahl, Mira – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2016
This paper reports on a study about how the mathematics textbook was perceived and used by the teacher in the context of a calculus part of a basic mathematics course for first-year engineering students. The focus was on the teacher's choices and the use of definitions, examples and exercises in a sequence of lectures introducing the derivative…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education
Collins, Loel; Collins, Dave; Grecic, David – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2015
This paper considers the personal epistemology of adventure sports coaches, the existence of the epistemological chain and its impact on professional judgment and decision-making. The epistemological chain's role and operationalization in other fields is considered, offering clues to how it may manifest itself in the adventure sports coach…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Adventure Education, Athletic Coaches, Decision Making
Moilanen, Jon H. – Adult Learning, 2015
Adult learners regularly confront complex and dynamic challenges in moments of crisis that require self-efficacy of intuition and immediate decision. Such "snap decision-making" requires highly developed critical thinking skills to effectively operate in the midst of chaos. This decisiveness is particularly challenging in the military…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Comeau-Kirschner, Cheryl – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This qualitative study explored the nature of tutor training in community college writing centers that served a significant English Language Learner (ELL) population. Using a case-study approach, the researcher sought to understand senior administrators' decision-making process about ELL-specific training in two community college writing centers…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Self Efficacy, Laboratories, Writing (Composition)
Daugherty, Glenn R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Police organizations routinely train their officers on the use of deadly force policy and procedures. The topic addressed in this study is that deadly force policy training may be inadequate in combining policy along with discretion in shoot or no shoot situations often resulting in improper use of deadly force. The problem is the training that…
Descriptors: Police Education, Law Enforcement, Police Community Relationship, Public Policy
Brinker, Mary Catherine – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this existential-phenomenological study was to address the first-person perspective of what it is like to experience clinical reasoning during a simulation. It was not known how a novice nurse would describe the experience of actualizing clinical reasoning during the academic simulation experience. In order to maintain the…
Descriptors: Novices, Nurses, Simulation, Clinical Psychology
Kinsella, Elizabeth Anne; Phelan, Shanon K.; Lala, Anna Park; Mom, Vanna – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2015
The ethical climate in which occupational therapists, and other health practitioners, currently practice is increasingly complex. There have been a number of calls for greater attention to ethics education within health science curricula. This study investigated occupational therapy students' perceptions of the meaning of ethical practice as a…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Ethics, Ethical Instruction, Student Attitudes
Jankvist, Uffe Thomas – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2014
Based on a study about using original sources with Danish upper secondary students, the paper addresses the potential outcome of such an approach in regard to the so-called recruitment problem to the mathematical sciences. 24 students were exposed to questionnaire questions and 16 of these to follow-up interviews, which form the basis for both a…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Students, Questionnaires, Followup Studies
Allal, Linda – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2013
This paper presents a study of teachers' professional judgement in the area of summative assessment. It adopts a situated perspective on assessment practices in classroom and school settings. The study is based on interviews with 10 sixth-grade teachers and on the assessment documents they used when determining end-of-term grades in students'…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Educational Practices, Interviews, Grade 6
Christodoulou, Michael – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2016
The ideal-typical distinction of normal/choice biography has been adopted by many youth researchers over the last 17 years as a means of approaching how vocational adolescents take decisions in a context in which life transitions are reversible and unsafe. In this article, we aim to show that this distinction is overestimated, by focusing on a…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Vocational Schools, Interviews, Biographies
Mettas, Alexandros – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2011
This paper suggests an innovative idea of using the "technology fair" as a means for promoting pre-service teachers (university students) decision-making skills. The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of a procedure of working with primary school children to complete and present a technology fair project, on the decision-making…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Primary Education, Diaries, Decision Making
Yap, Siew Fong – Issues in Educational Research, 2014
The realisation to integrate science, ethics and morality is recognised with growing impetus in recent years (as noted with introducing the Australian Curriculum "Science as a Human Endeavour" strand), to develop sophisticated epistemologies of science, which includes an appreciation of the social context including ethical thinking. To…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Values, Ethics, Moral Values