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Download full textThomas, John W. – 1981
This textbook/workbook for secondary school students is designed to stimulate inventive problem solving of future world problems. It is organized into four units and contains 23 lessons. Unit I defines the nature of the course and provides methods for stating and defining problems, brainstorming, working in groups, and judging ideas. Unit II…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Decision Making Skills, Futures (of Society), Global Approach
PDF pending restorationPerry, Constance M.; Schlenker, Richard M. – 1980
Procedures are outlined for aiding students in clarifying values and making decisions. Activities are included which were selected to sensitize students to some current situations that involve making technological, scientific, or bioethical decisions. The five activities are concerned with the following problematic situations: (1) government…
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Environmental Education, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
TILLERY, DALE; AND OTHERS – 1966
SCHOOL TO COLLEGE--OPPORTUNITIES FOR POST SECONDARY EDUCATION (SCOPE), IS A SIX-YEAR PROJECT WHICH SEEKS TO DISCOVER DECISION-MAKING PATTERNS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. THIS REPORT ON MASSACHUSETTS, THE SECOND OF THE SERIES, GIVES MEANS, PERCENTILE RANKS, STANDARD DEVIATIONS, AND DISTRIBUTIONS ON THE VERBAL ABILITY TEST, MATH ABILITY TEST,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Career Choice, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills
Dykstra, Gretchen; Stroer, Rosemary, Ed. – 1979
This booklet contains six case studies describing creative and successful teachers who have demonstrated that teaching architecture and urban design from many perspectives makes a great deal of educational sense. The teachers represent a variety of disciplines and teach at various levels, but all recognize the positive possibilities inherent in…
Descriptors: Architecture, Decision Making Skills, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Biomedical Interdisciplinary Curriculum Project, Berkeley, CA. – 1976
This guide presents lesson plans to accompany the student text. The lessons in this unit present 3 concepts: (1) allocation of responsibility; (2) decision-making; and (3) valuing. The concepts are illustrated in simulations, in situations related to governmental functioning in the U.S. and in health care delivery situations. Each lesson includes:…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Democratic Values
PDF pending restorationDependents Schools (DOD), Washington, DC. – 1979
The United States Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) conducted a career education assessment during May of 1978 which involved approximately 1,300 nine-, thirteen-, and seventeen-year-old students in three regions. The tests were objective-based, criterion-referenced tests which assessed systemwide student achievement in the areas of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Education, Career Planning, Criterion Referenced Tests
Cooperative Educational Service Agency 8, Appleton, WI.
This teacher activity package deals with the process of decision making in children. It assumes that fundamental to decision making is an awareness of one's own opportunity to make decisions as well as an understanding of the process itself. It also assumes that children can be helped, by teachers and other influential persons, to see and accept…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Decision Making Skills, Drug Education, Elementary Education
Schermer, Diana – 1975
Despite the fact that reviews of educational products for selection purposes usually have to be based on evidence less conclusive than formal evaluations, these reviews must be approached as thoughtfully and as rationally as possible. More fruitful results will come from review procedures in which the purpose of and criteria for the review are…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Educational Development, Educational Needs
Hale, Norman – 1978
The problem-solving models described in this paper were selected because they offer nontechnological alternatives to solving school district problems, because they solicit and respect the opinions of involved workers and clients, and because each model has several variant forms that can be applied to many different kinds of problems. The three…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrators, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills
Martin, Jane R. – 1975
This paper examines the argument that increased freedom of choice for students will rid education of undesirable coercion, compulsion, and conformity. Throughout her discussion, the author emphasizes that merely allowing a child to choose does not guarantee his capacity to choose. The capacity to choose presupposes not only the existence of…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Katz, Martin R.; And Others – 1976
Simulated Occupational Choice (SOC) was developed to measure competencies in career decision-making. SOC is a structured, individually-administered simulation exercise designed to elicit career decision-making behaviors and enable those behaviors to be observed, recorded, and scored in meaningful ways, particularly for diagnosis. It was…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Planning, Decision Making Skills, Diagnostic Tests
Jackson, Dorothy J.; Egner, Joan Roos – 1976
Recognition of the need to teach decision making skills led to the development of a program designed to improve high school students' career decision making skills. The research provided a process verification of a newly designed Mini Course based on Blau's model of occupational choice and the Jackson-Egner (J-E) Decision Making Model. Positive…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, Career Planning, Conferences
Scott, Roger O. – 1976
A strategy for decision making in the design of reading instruction is suggested in this paper. Decision categories, or "junctures," are anticipated, and a set of principles is developed as a guide to selection and sequencing of program tactics. Included in the discussion is an analysis of the problems inherent in decision making, an examination…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Elementary Education
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1974
This pamphlet describes SIGI, a computer-based System of Interactive Guidance and Information designed to help students in community and junior colleges make career decisions. SIGI is based on a humanistic philosophy, a theory of guidance that emphasizes individual values, a vast store of occupational data, and a strategy for processing…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Counseling, Career Planning, Computer Oriented Programs
Eisenberger, Katherine E. – 1975
The involvement of the community is absolutely essential in planning for declining enrollment and school closing. Through the use of the community task force, the frequently painful decisions entailed by a no-growth policy can be made more palatable. There are three types of task forces (the indepth seminar, the six- to eight-week study group, and…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Citizen Participation, Citizens Councils, Community Involvement
