Interpreting interest inventories correctly encourages client understanding and decision-making skills. Inadequate time and information overload can be major obstacles. Weinrach's Discrepancy Identification can minimize these problems in interpreting the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey. Includes a response by Diamond on scoring. (JAC)

Maintains that decision-making and social-action skills are basic to geographic instruction and suggests ways in which these skills can be developed. (Author/DB)

There is a need to provide business education students with decision-making and problem-solving skills, knowledge of economics, understanding of the individual's role in the workplace, human relations skills, and understanding of the computer's role in our lives. (CT)

Students need practice in decision making and problem solving, and sociodrama can provide this practice in a safe, nonthreatening context. It helps them to become aware of the typical ways they solve problems, and it increases both social and personal awareness. (Author)

Assessed the effectiveness of an established two-credit course in personal-career decision making. Results indicate that experimental participants altered their locus of control toward internality; that they were considerably more articulate than controls in describing career concepts; and that they had taken more action toward resolving their…

Describes some practical ways for examining the process of making ethical decisions for the purpose of encouraging biology teachers to actively engage themselves and their students in the search for a new ethical structure. (HM)

Presents specific guidelines which content-oriented science teachers can follow in order to develop subject-matter comprehension, decision-making skills, and values/moral clarification and reasoning processes in their students. (Author/HM)

The PRIDE Program is an-integral part of the Comprehensive Health Education of the Dade County Schools. Students develop skills in what has become known as the "affective domain." The PRIDE Program encompasses youngsters in grades K-12 and is designed to prevent problems rather than deal with them afterwards. (Author)

Describes an economics game for adult education designed to simulate the real world by setting up national economic policymaking in which participants can exercise their own judgment. Assesses some of the conclusions to be derived from the use of such a game. (MF)

The authors recommend research and development priorities in the area of career decision-making based on concepts of social learning theory. A survey of research resources such as the Careers Research Data Set Index (CRDSI) and the Careers Research Data Bank (CRDB) are also presented. (Author/HLM)

Cooperative classroom planning can provide the pupils many opportunities to learn how to plan together, make decisions together, evaluate experiences together, and get along with each other. (JD)

Students can use role playing to expand their imitative talents, to help in problem solving, and to experiment with different ways of being themselves. (MB)

Examined the relationships among individuation, stress level, and problem-solving abilities of college students (N=261). Results indicate a significant relationship between individuation level and problem-solving ability and between stress level and problem-solving ability. Implications for counseling and for future research are discussed. (RJM)

Identified five subgroups among 199 female and 133 male college students based on their decision-making styles, career decision-making self-efficacy, and career development task accomplishment. Results provide support for the positive relationship between a systematic (rather than spontaneous) decision style and adaptive vocational behavior.…

Investigated the relationship between adolescent decision-making and their sense of control over the future. Ninety-eight students (11-14 years old) participated in a program emphasizing responsibility, plans, choices, and alternatives. Results indicate that increased knowledge of decision-making raises pupils' sense of control over their…