This module is aimed toward those teachers and guidance personnel in school settings, grades K-12, or participants in preservice training programs, who are interested in developing an understanding of (1) the importance of teaching students skills in career decision making and (2) the types of activities and resources which can be used to teach…

This document evaluates the success of the Objective-Based Career Guidance Program after one year, and includes details of all projects carried out during that year. The following three areas were explored during initial phases of implementation: (1) information about self, (2) information about careers, and (3) decision making. Three hundred…

A personal growth course was developed and taught at Houston Community College (Texas) during the fall of 1974. Ninety students in 10 sections were given three semester hours of academic credit upon successful completion of the course. Fifteen three-hour classes were conducted. The first 12 sessions were designed primarily to increase the…

The K-12 career education program in the Pickens County Schools, Alabama, is designed to place particular emphasis on the importance of the development of decision-making skills as an aspect of career development. For each stage of career development (awareness, accommodation, exploration, and preparation) key vocational developmental tasks…

An instructional system is presented for building the competencies of adult basic education students in making consumer decisions, and offers a guide to teachers who wish to design their own decision-making problems for students. The first four chapters provide a brief introduction, discuss the rational consumer decision-making process and the…

In high school distributve education classes the selling function is usually interpreted as it relates to retail sales. The industrial sales representative, however, must act on his own in the field, making decisions without consultation with his superiors. As the total distributive education program grows in sophistication, there is a need to…

This research in the application and synthesis of psychological stage theory to drug abuse education was designed to promote growth in decision making capacity of 11- and 12-year-old children. Specifically, the purpose of this research was to intervene in this developmental period of transition from concrete to formal operational thinking capacity…

"Pure" academic research rules on data collection do not apply directly to operations research (OR). OR data collection should be viewed in terms of objective, cost, and effectiveness. For the model formulation objective, proper data strategies emphasize multiple views of the operating system to identify the "relatednesses" to be depicted. For the…

This study investigates the effects of teaching decision-making skills on the classroom behavior of middle school problem students. Small groups of students met for 15 weeks with a counselor who adapted the "Deciding" program (College Entrance Examination Board) as the decision-making paradigm. Coppersmith's Self-Esteem Index and…

The study attempts to specify and verify the decisionmaking processes utilized by groups when faced with a multistage rating task. It is also designed to upgrade group efficacy by introducing some procedural guidelines which group members are asked to follow in resolving differences. This "structured" intervention encourages members to…

The programed course was written to help jail officers assume the demands of jail work and emphasizes that, in addition to routine tasks, officers must be fully prepared to serve an important function for society as well-trained, responsible professionals. Much of the officer's job will depend on his ability to make decisions and to avoid the…

The programed course was written to help jail officers assume the demands of jail work and emphasizes that, in addition to routine tasks, officers must be fully prepared to serve an important function for society as well-trained, responsible professionals. Much of the officer's job will depend on his ability to make decisions and to avoid the…

The programed course was written to help jail officers assume the demands of jail work and emphasizes that, in addition to routine tasks, officers must be fully prepared to serve an important function for society as well-trained, responsible professionals. Much of the officer's job will depend on his ability to make decisions and to avoid the…

The programed course was written to help jail officers assume the demands of jail work and emphasizes that, in addition to routine tasks, officers must be fully prepared to serve an important function for society as well-trained, responsible professionals. Much of the officer's job will depend on his ability to make decisions and to avoid the…

The programed course was written to help jail officers assume the demands of jail work and emphasizes that, in addition to routine tasks, officers must be fully prepared to serve an important function for society as well-trained, responsible professionals. Much of the officer's job will depend on his ability to make decisions and to avoid the…