Problem solving and decision making are considered to be keys to successful management. A normative method for problem solving is presented, suggesting that the analysis of the problem be structured along a five-step procedure: problem identification, analysis, decision alternatives, decision making, and decision implementation. Follow-up…

The author describes an approach designed to help students develop decision-making skills in an office procedures or intensive office education class. (CH)

The teaching of social studies, it is argued, should emphasize decision making as against mere remembering. A good citizen, in the process of testing beliefs and convictions, has increased his or her fund of factual information and become increasingly skillful at intelligent decision making. (MT)

Assessed the effects of a counselor's touch on depressed or vocationally undecided female students (N=40). Results showed no significant differences between the touched or untouched groups in counselor judgments or requests for a second interview. The vocationally undecided subjects were more comfortable with the touch than depressed subjects.…

Super powers are attributed to gifted and talented individuals in preparing for the world of work. Quite to the contrary, they need special help in preparing for that world. Gifted people are faced with multiple choices that challenge the counselor to implement the activities described. (Author)

If administrators want to succeed as decision-makers and provide leadership based on consensus, they must include certain realizations in their political philosophies and strategies. Works on organizational power provide suggestions. (4 references) (CJH)

An excellent method for teaching elementary and secondary history is to have students study historical decisions and decision-making processes and become involved in making some historical decisions as well. This approach is described. (RM)

Types of decisions (educational, social, and resource) made by nursery school personnel and the process of helping children become effective decision-makers are explored. Nursery school management may be evaluated by asking, how effective is decision making in the nursery school, and how is each child actually progressing? (AJ)

Author believes that the application of the Decision-Making Model to the removal of "discrepancies" allows the teachers and other school agents to proceed with changes in an orderly and rational manner. (Author)

This article focuses upon the role of decision-making in the schools as a vehicle for drug abuse prevention. Decision-making is examined as a process that may be structured to make learning meaningful and give youngsters the skills and resources necessary to face up to the social pressures involved in the spread of drug abuse. (Author)

Describes an experimental teaching project at the University of Southern California Law School that emphasizes the lawyering process, the lawyer/client relationship, the decisions-processes of the lawyer, and aspects of preventive law. (Author/PG)

The complete lesson enables the teacher to relate teaching strategies to levels of cognitive behavior, and stems from the belief that higher levels of cognitive behavior are developed only after a learner first acquires information and then puts that information to use. (Author)

Paper offers teachers some strategies and ideas they might use to help students in their valuing process. (Author)

Presents a model of the planning process that may serve as a conceptual frame for educational planning. Suggests that a sound model of the educational planning process is needed to generate comparative empirical research needed by planners and students of planning. (Author/JH)