A self-assessment which allows the reader to measure his/her leadership style, the Leader Adaptability and Style Inventory (LASI) consists of hypothetical situations and multiple alternative actions from which to choose. Four basic leader behavior styles are listed and explained. (CT)

The fourth R--reasoning--is prerequisite to successfully coping with life and its attendant and inevitable problems. (Author)

Explores some implications of individual perceptions for management development. Suggests that logic is necessary but not sufficient in dealing with problems and opportunities and that the perceptual side of problem solving is becoming more dominant. (JOW)

Suggests that a written text and its revisions are documents of decision processes controlled by the writer's outlook on information priorities. (DD)

Instructional exercises were applied in an attempt to increase children's problem solving skills; performance in two training groups was greater than in that of a control group. (KS)

Reports on five experiments regarding the ability of children ranging from four to seven years of age to decide when they did not have enough information to select an unfamiliar named picture. Concludes that avoidance of the undecidable was the result of the children's difficulty in understanding undecidability. (GH)

Observes that the Kohlbergian model of morality does not give a good account of the ways in which people make moral decisions in their everyday lives. Argues that a functional model of moral judgment and moral behavior derived from evolutionary theory may supply a better account of real-life morality. (DSK)

Examines a learning community of remedial readers and writers struggling with emergent forms of literacy. Documents their transformations of this literacy into more conventional forms. Notes that four main themes emerged to help explain the nature of the mediating activities: decision-making, opportunity, choice, and engagement. (SG)

Economic reasoning skills integrate easily with the business education curriculum and enhance students' development of decision-making and problem-solving techniques. One method involves having students apply deductive reasoning to economic mysteries. (JOW)

In order to make effective decisions based on probability, one must be able to distinguish between the objective-factual aspects of the decision and the subjective aspects. This study examines the hypothesis that academic studies contribute to the development of the ability to make such distinctions in day-to-day decision-making. Some 940…

The purposes of this study were to assess secondary school students' decision-making and game-play ability and to investigate how game understanding, assessed by a standardized video-based test, corresponds to students' decision-making and skill execution ability in actual game play. Students (12, aged 14-15 years) participated in a video-based…

During the last few decades, the author and his colleagues have developed an instructional framework for infusing thinking into content instruction in every subject and at every grade level. In thinking-based learning, teachers explicitly teach students thinking strategies and important habits of mind and then give students opportunities to apply…

Identity theft is the fastest growing white-collar crime in America, increasing 40% annually. Identity theft occurs when personal-identifying information, such as a social security number, date of birth, or address, is used to commit fraud. From January 1, 2005, to December 31, 2005, 255,565 people in the United States were victims of identity…

The present study examined the outcomes of a newly designed four-lesson science module on opinion-forming in the context of genomics in upper secondary education. The lesson plan aims to foster 16-year-old students' opinion-forming skills in the context of genomics and to test the effect of the use of fiction in the module. The basic hypothesis…

Learning how to operate a computer, generate reports, and present information is not enough for the business management student. The student of management should know how to use the computer as a tool for decision making. (Author)