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Peer reviewedAvant, Gayle; Avant, Kay – Social Studies Journal, 1980
Describes a simulation, "Ethics for Administrators," which is designed to help the student understand why he takes certain ethical positions and not others, and to challenge him to identify the systematic elements within his professional ethics. (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Decision Making, Ethics, Higher Education
Peer reviewedHaas, Mary E. – Social Education, 1982
Activity requires secondary students to make an entrepreneurial decision concerning a conflict between long-term and short-term results. Students read a dilemma story involving an automobile manufacturer. They must write down positive and negative consequences for alternative decisions on a "Human Consequences Matrix" and an "Economic Consequences…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, Economic Factors, Learning Activities
Download full textValett, Robert E. – 1986
This document was written for junior and senior high school students to help them learn to cope more effectively with their problems. It is intended as a quide for helping adolescents explore and solve problems through constructive critical thinking. Ten steps in the process of constructive critical thinking are presented with personal and social…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Coping, Critical Thinking
Baldwin, Grover H. – 1986
The use of quantitative decision making tools provides the decision maker with a range of alternatives among which to decide, permits acceptance and use of the optimal solution, and decreases risk. Training line administrators in the use of these tools can help school business officials obtain reliable information upon which to base district…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Auburn Univ., AL. Cooperative Extension Service. – 1982
A six-part marine science simulation game for 4-H members concerning land use in a hypothetical community is provided. The major problem is to decide what are some possible uses of a three-mile (1,250 acre) Marsh Beach which the city recently purchased. Members assume the roles of decision-makers in the simulated environment and compete for…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
Gaul, Dennis R.; Kynell, Michael C. – 1979
This teacher's guide contains activity modules designed to help explain present energy use patterns and basic concepts in energy use. Also covered in the manual are suggestions for energy-related field trips and strategies for successfully conducting such trips. The activities are presented according to grade level, including primary,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Intercom, 1985
In this simulation, secondary students explore the potentials for cooperation and conflict that have existed in relation to control of the seas. Through playing roles of decision makers of various nations, students learn about issues and positions involved in exploiting the wealth of th sea, including minerals, oil, and fish. (RM)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, International Cooperation, Minerals
Borad, Bruce; Fagerstrom, Richard – Intercom, 1985
This simulation is intended to help secondary students better understand the workings of administrative agencies. The setting is an environmental controversy (preservation of a valley as a wilderness area or converting it to a recreation area); however, the general idea can be easily adapted to almost any functioning administrative agency. (RM)
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Conflict Resolution, Conservation (Environment), Decision Making
Tedesco, Paul H., Ed.; And Others – 1977
These teacher developed case studies taken from the business world are presented to help secondary students develop an understanding of economics and of the decision-making process. The studies describe real business situations. All historical and current facts are provided for each of the seven case studies. In the first case, students debate…
Descriptors: Advertising, Business Education, Case Studies, Decision Making
Intercom, 1985
In this lesson, junior high students consider two instances of exponential population growth--one at the local community level and one at the world level--as a way of illuminating some of the problems posed by growth and the limits that may curtail it. (RM)
Descriptors: Community Size, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, Food
Tedesco, Paul H., Ed.; And Others – 1979
These teacher developed case studies taken from the business world are presented to help secondary students develop an understanding of economics and of the decision-making process. The studies describe real business situations. All historical and current facts are provided, and students must analyze the data and make business decisions. Teacher…
Descriptors: Business Education, Case Studies, Decision Making, Economic Factors
O'Reilly, Kevin – 1991
This is one of a four-volume series intended to improve students' (grade 6-adult) critical thinking through evaluation of conflicting viewpoints of United States history. Each lesson is a self-contained problem that can be integrated at any point in a corresponding history unit. The book represents both analytical and narrative history. Unit One…
Descriptors: Change, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Decision Making
Hayes, John R. – 1981
This book, designed for a college course on general problem-solving skills, focuses on skills that can be used by anyone in solving problems that occur in everyday life. Part I considers theory and practice: understanding problems, search, and protocol analysis. Part II discusses memory and knowledge acquisition: the structure of human memory,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Creativity, Decision Making
Tedesco, Paul H., Ed.; And Others – 1978
These teacher developed case studies taken from the business world are presented to help secondary students develop an understanding of economics and of the decision-making process. The studies describe real business situations. All historical and current facts are provided, and students must analyze the data and make business decisions. Teacher…
Descriptors: Business Education, Case Studies, Decision Making, Economic Factors
Tedesco, Paul H., Ed.; And Others – 1981
These teacher developed case studies taken from the business world are presented to help secondary students develop an understanding of economics and of the decision-making process. The studies describe real business situations. All historical and current facts are provided, and students must analyze the data and make business decisions. Teacher…
Descriptors: Business Education, Case Studies, Decision Making, Economic Factors
