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Teaching Decision Making Skills, Beatrice Landrum Gallier
Teaching Decision Making Skills, Beatrice Landrum Gallier
Theses & Honors Papers
Summarized in this document are results from a survey distributed to find the number of hours elementary, middle and high school teachers were trained to teach the six decision making skills to students . This survey found that at least sixty percent of all teachers responding received no training. The teachers indicated which skills were the most important for students to acquire . The skills which were most important for students to acquire were rated among the lowest for student mastery of the concept/skill. Although many of the teachers were not trained, they did report teaching the skills as the …
A Non-Decision-Reaching Decision-Making Process, Wei Wei Lou
A Non-Decision-Reaching Decision-Making Process, Wei Wei Lou
Dissertations and Theses
Decision-making processes are among the most important activities within human organizations. This dissertation is a case study of decision-making in the review of high school graduation standards in an urban school district. The review process lasted three years and was terminated before any decision was reached concerning graduation standards. The purpose of this study is to answer three questions: Why would a decision-making process be terminated before any results are achieved? Under what circumstances do decision makers choose to let the process die? What do such decision making processes reveal about the organization? This case study employs the rational choice …