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Download full textNorth Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1988
This guide is intended for use in teaching a course in human and product transportation systems. The purpose of the course is twofold. First, students are introduced to the design process and the steps used to analyze various solutions to basic problems. Second, the course focuses on the application of the design and evaluation process to review a…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Design
Iozzi, Louis A. – 1987
This teacher's guide was developed to assist teachers in supplementing junior high and high school science and social studies programs with a study of the relationships between science, technology, and society (STS). The program is intended to focus on the improvement of student knowledge about STS issues and the teaching of skills related to…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Environmental Education, Logical Thinking
Kennedy, Mary M. – 1982
Qualitive data from interviews with individuals and observations of group meetings were gathered from 16 school districts that participated in a study of school district uses of evaluation and test data. The findings are organized around a series of discrete topics presented in a set of independent papers. The title essay, "Working Knowledge,"…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Content Analysis, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Social Studies Development Center, Bloomington, IN. – 1978
Conference papers reviewing the role of decision making in social studies education since 1960 are presented. The focus of the discussion was a paper by Shirley Engle published in 1960 entitled "Decision Making: The Heart of Social Studies Instruction." The first part of the booklet contains the text of that paper. Engle maintained that the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Educational Change
Slawski, Carl – 1982
A General Policy Systems Theory is outlined and its application at a university in regard to governance in the face of retrenchment is described. The way that this model of nonrigorous but holistic research supports the Purpose, Target, Results (PTR) strategy and is in turn more useful than either operations research/management or science/systems…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Case Studies, College Administration, College Planning
Shuchat, Jo; Otto, Judith – 1979
Location Decisions is a simulation game in which students obtain and evaluate information about several potential business locations in light of location requirements specific to their game businesses. In Location Decisions, the specific content area taught to students is the process for choosing a location for a small business; the basic skills…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Education, Business Skills, Decision Making
Forest, Robert F. – 1978
The document describes a practicum which developed a unit on critical thinking that applied Jerome Bruner's discovery-learning method and also incorporated the unit within the curricular requirements of elementary education majors at Castleton State College in Vermont. It is presented in five sections and an appendix. Section I provides…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development
DILL, WILLIAM R.; AND OTHERS – 1965
SEVENTY YOUNG MANAGERS, FACING THE CHALLENGE OF SELF EDUCATION, WERE QUESTIONED ON THEIR AGENDAS AND STRATEGIES FOR LEARNING, AND THEIR CHANCES FOR SUCCESS IN LEARNING. EXECUTIVES FOUND DIFFICULTY IN DESCRIBING AGENDAS BECAUSE THEY LACKED TIME, OR PRACTICE, OR A SENSE OF PERSONAL IDENTITY. MAIN PRESSURES FOR SELF EDUCATION WERE TO QUALIFY FOR…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Attitude Change, Career Planning, Decision Making
PDF pending restorationState Univ. of New York, Albany. Office of the Regents. – 1976
This discussion guide will help groups of teachers, parents, and high school students learn about the importance of values and the role of education in the study of values. Several techniques are presented by which educators can design classroom experiences around the process of valuing. A major objective of the guide is to assure parents of the…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Discussion Groups, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Manning, Brad A. – 1973
The Trouble Shooting Checklist-A (TSC-A) is a predictive instrument to aid the educational change agent in defining variables within institutions or organizations which are concerned with adopting modules in deciding whether or not an institution is suited for a particular innovation. These five dimensions comprise the major scales: Organization…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents
O'Neil, Sharon Lund – 1976
The study was conducted to identify occupational survival skills--the basic knowledges, traits, and competencies necessary to maintain a job. A list of 27 basic occupational survival skills was developed, involving the following areas: interpersonal relations and communications; personal characteristics; decision making and problem solving; job…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Doctoral Dissertations, Employee Attitudes, Employee Responsibility
Dauw, Dean C. – 1975
The book is intended as a manual for the reader who has some career or job questions. Exercises (such as questions to answer and charts to complete) are provided for independent use by the learner who may then be able to use the data generated to make decisions, to get opinions from significant persons, and to act upon what has been learned.…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Guidance
Coombs, Don H., Comp. – 1976
Most of the 101 citations included in this annotated bibliography on simulation and gaming were derived from a search of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) indexes. Entries were published between 1972 and 1975. The bibliography is divided into nine sections: theory and research; social studies materials; environment, land use, and…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction
Vuicich, George; Stoltman, Joseph – 1974
This paper on the pre-college teaching of geography documents the teaching of geography in the United States from 1800 to the present and projects it into the future. Analyses of how views on physical, regional, and human geography have affected the elementary and secondary curricula and a history of the incorporation of geography into the social…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Educational Trends
Nevada State Dept. of Education, Carson City. Div. of Planning and Evaluation. – 1973
The existing crises in the schools show a need for some systematic method of planning that leaves little to chance or opinion and which rests more on the scientific techniques of problem solving. Although the use of a systems approach in public programs is just beginning, it seems to hold considerable promise for education. Hence, the Nevada State…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning, Educational Programs
