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Wills, Vernon L. – Adult Leadership, 1974
Descriptors: Administrator Selection, Adults, Decision Making Skills, Leaders
Rocchio, Daniel J. – 1977
This paper develops a comprehensive and coordinated strategy for teaching critical reading and rational decision-making skills to college students. Five skills are identified as essential for developing sound reasoning processes: (1) developing an objective viewpoint, (2) identifying and clarifying an evaluative statement--the difference between…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Decision Making Skills
Coleman, Peter – 1978
Decision-making in general and policy decisions in particular are the prime responsibility of school boards because policies are control mechanisms by which trustees assert local control. Policy decisions differ from others in their concern with values and purposes and the legitimization of the organization to society at large. Additionally, they…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills
Download full textJoint Council on Economic Education, New York, NY. – 1977
This guide contains concept-based activities in economics for use with students in grades one through three. One component of a two-part publication, the guide demonstrates how the conceptual structure of the economics discipline presented in the first publication (ED 148 648) can be used to help students at the primary grade level make more…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Concept Teaching, Consumer Economics, Curriculum Guides
Sheridan, Jack – 1977
This unit provides the student with a simulated experience in the development of decision making skills. The acquisition of petroleum resources in a hypothetical republic provides the basic scenario around which the simulation develops. Students are supplied with specific information about petroleum geology, finances, and drilling. With this…
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Environmental Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities
Knerr, Bruce W.; Nawrocki, Leon H. – 1978
This report describes the development of a computer based system designed to train electronic troubleshooting procedures. The ACTS uses artificial intelligence techniques to develop models of student and expert troubleshooting behavior as they solve a series of troubleshooting problems on the system. Comparisons of the student and expert models…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Decision Making Skills, Individualized Instruction
Emerson, Debby H.; And Others – 1978
The decision making teaching module is one of a series of six modules prepared by Project SPICE (Special Partnership in Career Education) as a means of providing career awareness information to educable mentally handicapped students (ages 11-to-13 years). After an overview, a module profile is provided which charts the units, the activities in…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Career Awareness, Career Education, Decision Making Skills
GELATT, H.B. – 1966
INFORMATION AND DECISION THEORY OFFERS A COHERENT FRAMEWORK FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL GUIDANCE BECAUSE IT--(1) ESTABLISHES OBJECTIVES, (2) DETERMINES APPROPRIATE PRACTICES, (3) SELECTS AREAS OF RESEARCH, AND (4) EVALUATES PROGRESS TOWARD THESE OBJECTIVES. THE DECISION-MAKING PROGRAM IN THE PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA SECONDARY SCHOOLS HELPS NINTH AND 11TH…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Career Planning, Counselor Training, Decision Making Skills
MOORE, LARRY F. – 1967
AS A TEACHING DEVICE, THE MANAGEMENT GAME POSSESSES UNIQUE FEATURES--DIRECT FEEDBACK OF DECISION RESULTS AND SEQUENTIAL DECISION-MAKING. THE BUSINESS GAME AND CASE METHOD ARE CLOSELY RELATED. BOTH DEFINE A COLLECTION OF DATA, AFFORD PRACTICE IN THE USE OF ANALYTICAL TOOLS, EXPOSE TRAINEES TO DECISION-MAKING UNDER CONDITIONS OF UNCERTAINTY, AND…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Business Education, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
MACDONALD, JAMES B.; AND OTHERS – 1965
THIS STUDY INVOLVED FOUR PREMISES ABOUT TEACHING--(1) THE DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEMATIC, RATIONAL THINKING WILL IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF TEACHING, (2) RESEARCH TRAINING WILL HELP DEVELOP RATIONAL SYSTEMATIC THINKING, (3) GENERAL TEACHER EDUCATION OUTCOMES REFLECT THE QUALITY OF THINKING, AND (4) THE STUDENT TEACHING EXPERIENCE IS THE MOST CRITICAL…
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Elementary School Teachers, Student Experience, Student Teachers
JAMES, H. THOMAS; AND OTHERS – 1966
THIS REPORT IS A STUDY OF THE PROCESSES BY WHICH MONEY IS ALLOCATED TO THE SUPPORT OF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN LARGE CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES. IMPLICIT IN THE RATIONALE ARE THE ASSUMPTIONS THAT RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR THE SUPPORT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION ARE RARELY SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY ALL THE DEMANDS MADE UPON THEM, AND THAT…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Budgeting, Decision Making Skills, Educational Finance
Buike, Sandra – 1980
A study was conducted to provide an understanding of teacher decision making as it shaped the course of reading instruction. Specifically, through an analytical description of the patterns of teacher decision making, the study sought to identify and classify the decisions four teachers made and to describe how those decisions were reflected in…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Elementary Education
Clatworthy, F. James – 1978
Prediction is made of a change in the role of the teacher from dispenser of knowledge to a learning facilitator and an "anticipatory design science" specialist. A description is given of a workshop seminar focusing on the process of designing educational futures so that teachers can gain direct experience with policy study and formation. This…
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Educational Research, Futures (of Society), Planning
Johnson, Donald M. – 1968
Different groups of college students wrote one solution or many solutions to problems, like the plot-title problem, of verbal, numerical, and pictorial material. Instructions to write many solutions yielded solutions of lower mean quality, but more superior solutions. Information about criteria for good solutions raised quality. Large quantity was…
Descriptors: College Students, Decision Making Skills, Divergent Thinking, Learning Processes
PDF pending restorationLocher, Paul J.; Simmons, Roger W. – 1977
Two experiments were conducted to investigate the perceptual processes involved in haptic exploration of randomly generated shapes. Experiment one required subjects to detect symmetrical or asymmetrical characteristics of individually presented plastic shapes, also varying in complexity. Scanning time for both symmetrical and asymmetrical shapes…
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Learning Activities, Learning Processes, Pattern Recognition
