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Download full textVARENHORST, BARBARA B. – 1966
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE EXAMINING AND INTERNALIZING VALUES. THEIR FEAR OF COMMITMENT TO ANYTHING DEVIATING FROM ACCEPTED VALUES MAY HINDER THEIR CLARIFICATION OF PERSONAL GOALS AND VALUES. THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS SHOULD BE AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE GUIDANCE PROGRAM. STANDARD QUESTIONNAIRES DO NOT PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT SPECIFIC FACTORS…
Descriptors: Counseling, Counseling Objectives, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Graduate School of Education. – 1966
THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY LISTS MATERIAL ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF COGNITION. APPROXIMATELY 120 UNANNOTATED REFERENCES ARE PROVIDED TO DOCUMENTS DATING MAINLY FROM 1960 TO 1966. LISTINGS ARE PRIMARILY JOURNAL ARTICLES, CONFERENCE PAPERS, AND RESEARCH REPORTS. SOME OF THE SUBJECT AREAS INCLUDED ARE (1) COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT, (2) PIAGET'S THEORIES, (3)…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement
Porterfield, Craig; Eglsaer, Richard – 1980
A total of 359 retained seventh and eighth grade students from the Austin (Texas) Independent School District's junior high schools participated in a summer enrichment program that was designed to improve their basic skills and decision making skills and to provide them with a successful school experience. Diagnostic information was used to assign…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Decision Making Skills, Educational Research, Junior High School Students
Rouse, William B.; And Others – 1980
A series of six experiments was conducted to increase understanding of human performance on diagnostic tasks, and in the process to investigate the feasibility of using context-free computer-based simulations to train troubleshooting skills. Three simulated diagnostic tasks were developed: a simple context-free task, a complex context-free task,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Decision Making Skills, Difficulty Level
Fredericksen, Gary E.; Fullerton, Theo F. – 1978
A pilot project, conducted by California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, for the California State University and Colleges, investigated the value of the System of Interactive Guidance and Information (SIGI) as a career planning tool, and assessed its impact on the university's instructional timesharing computer from November 1977 to December…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Planning, College Students
Hudak, Vivian M.; Butler, F. Coit, Jr. – 1967
Significant characteristics of the guidance program are reviewed and materials developed, staff preparation, tryout procedures, and implementation and evaluation plans are described. To try out evaluation procedures, a random sample of 505 students in grades 7, 8, and 9 in six schools provided data for (1) measuring student choices relative to…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Guidance, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Stewart, Ellen A. – 1976
This Coordinator's Guide accompanies the module Helping Students Develop Career Decision-Making Skills. It defines the coordinator's role from four aspects: setting the tone, setting the pace, facilitating the discussion, and evaluating. Suggestions for preparing and presenting the workshop are offered. The actual text is in the accompanying…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Exploration, Competency Based Education, Coordinators
Patrick, John J.; Remy, Richard C. – 1977
Five criteria derived from an original conception of basic education are used to appraise The Essential Learning Skills Television Project and to guide the proposal of ideas to strengthen the project. It is assumed that to prepare students to cope with the challenges of daily living and citizenship, curricula must stress acquisition of skills in…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Citizenship, Criteria, Curriculum Design
Uchitelle, Susan – 1978
This paper examines the policy implications of school choice opportunites in the public sector, based on a study of the school choice behavior of a group of public school parents residing in areas where they were permitted to choose which of two dissimilar schools their child would attend. Data were gathered through interviews with 48 mothers who…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decision Making Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Free Choice Transfer Programs
Lapides, Joseph – 1977
This presentation discusses a rationale and set of procedures that increase parent involvement in decisions concerning their children. Decision making is viewed here as a process by which parents choose, among conflicting considerations, courses of action which are in the best interests of their children. Decisions usually imply a power…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Counseling Objectives, Decision Making Skills
Springfield Public Schools, OR. – 1974
The document presents teacher developed ideas for helping students gain skills in the process of decision making through individual and/or group activities. Individual activities are: (1) your own values, (2) case studies on honesty, (3) skills in helping others understand you as a person, (4) anxiety about future or conflict with parental wishes…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Group Activities, Individual Activities
Heisel, W. D. – 1976
Although ideally collective bargaining is a rational decision making process, in actuality, irrational forces frequently intrude, making a call for mediation a logical, necessary step. When communication breaks down between union and management, a mediator's objective assessment and recommendations become essential. For mediation to work, the…
Descriptors: Administration, Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining, Communication Problems
Rakes, Thomas A., Ed.; Brotherton, Sophia, Ed. – 1975
This document presents nine papers which were originally prepared for the 1974 Annual Language Arts Conference at Memphis State University. Included are: "Proxemics" by Dale F. Baltus; "Reading and Study Skill Hints for Intermediate and Secondary Teachers" by Stuart W. Bray; "A Reading Game License" by Flora C. Fowler; "Teach Kids to Think" by…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education
Gooler, Dennis D.
A method is presented by which decision makers may establish priorities for the collection of data to be used as input to the decision-making process. It is assumed that the experience, intuition, and previously collected data will influence the decision, as will the constraints of design, and the audience to whom the particular decision is…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Bus Transportation, Data Analysis, Data Collection
McLean, Gary N. – 1971
To help establish well-defined standards and norms for proficiency at realistic typing tasks, this investigation sought to establish difficulty indexes for three major classes of such tasks and to provide an initial pool of normative data for the development of the difficulty indexes. To gather the needed data, various subsets of eight tasks from…
Descriptors: Business Education, Decision Making Skills, Doctoral Dissertations, Group Norms
