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Miller, Randolph A.; Schaffner, Kenneth F. – Journal of Medical Education, 1982
A course to introduce medical students to formal models of medical diagnostic reasoning at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is described. The students are encouraged to integrate facts and concepts from the basic sciences into strategies of diagnostic reasoning. (MLW)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Computer Oriented Programs, Course Descriptions, Evaluative Thinking
Glasman, Naftaly S. – 1994
This book shows how to use evaluation to find effective solutions. The first two chapters introduce evaluation as an administrative function at the school level. Chapter 1 draws on two kinds of literature--educational-administration literature (to survey administrative practices) and educational-evaluation literature (evaluation practiced by…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Case Studies, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills
Aiex, Nola Kortner – 1989
Although schools in many countries have initiated mass media education, American schools still give little consideration to any systematic study of the mass media. Students are particularly in need of learning how to apply basic critical viewing concepts to watching television, the most powerful and ubiquitous of the mass media. Most researchers…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Critical Viewing, Curriculum Development, Evaluative Thinking
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Morehead, David R.; Rouse, William B. – Information Processing and Management, 1985
Presents results of five experiments on human information-seeking behavior in different online information-seeking environments which studied search strategies and assessed information value in realistic search environments. A conceptual model of how humans value information is presented. Empirical and modeling results are considered for…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Databases, Design Requirements, Evaluative Thinking
Priest, Simon – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Leadership, 1990
Outdoor leaders with sound judgment can gather many specific experiences, induce them into a collection of general concepts, store these as memory maps in the mind, later recall the general concepts as needed, and deduce a specific prediction from them. Proposes that evaluative reflection after a judgment is made is the component missing from most…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Deduction
Chacon, Fabio J. – 1981
A model is presented for response to evaluating instruction in a university based on the teaching-at-a-distance concept. Technically appropriate and operationally viable, this model is applied to the National Open University of Venezuela (UNA). The model is based on two principles of educational evaluation: (1) the concept of evaluation as a…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Course Evaluation, Course Objectives, Evaluation Criteria
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Maclellan, Effie – Teaching & Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2004
To describe their knowledge of assessment, specifically prepared scripts from 30 novice teachers were content analysed. Knowledge of the formative-summative mode was evident in all scripts but the connections made between this mode of assessment and the other principles of assessment were not well developed. Knowledge of assessment methods was…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Education, Content Analysis
Stimac, Michele – 1978
In an age when decision making is becoming more and more significant for us human beings as we face dilemmas about whether or not to clone, to engineer behavior on mass scale, to expand or to decrease nuclear power, we educators must assist students to increase their decision-making skills. Many of our students will soon be decision makers for…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Counselor Role, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills
Tate, Douglass T. – 1971
This paper points to the demands which our "new society" is making upon guidance and counseling programs; demands which must be met as counselors become agents of change and the profession turns from exclusive concern with intra and interpersonal matters to exteriorceptive concerns. The author gives a brief historical outline of the emerging…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Counseling, Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Evaluation
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Yang, Ok Seung – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2000
Describes the development and use of the Verbal Plan and Evaluation program, an instructional model applicable for free play time and based on Vygotsky's view that teachers' active involvement in children's verbalization of planning and evaluating play activities facilitates the development of their mental processes. Presents teaching strategies…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Practices, Evaluative Thinking
Fadely, Dean – 1982
College debaters who go to law school are often surprised by the differences between the processes that take place in the court of reason and the process that takes place in the court of law. The court of reason relies mainly on authoritative testimony, while the court of law relies on direct evidence. Evidence in the court of reason is either…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Court Litigation, Court Role, Debate
Waldron, James S. – 1971
The effectiveness of the Delphi Technique is evaluated in terms of immediate and delayed controlled information feedback (feedback within 5 seconds as compared with a 24-hour delay); and the relationships that exist among measures of integrative complexity, estimations about the time of occurrence of future events, and time delay between task…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Schemes, Decision Making, Difficulty Level
Yelon, Stephen; Desmedt, John – Performance and Instruction, 1988
This discussion of how to design a training program to teach professional judgment and performance focuses on a model for training police officers. Open job skills are explained, appropriate choices and actions are described, and the components and objectives of open job skill instruction are presented. (LRW)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Decision Making Skills, Evaluative Thinking, Improvement Programs
Kurfiss, Joanne Gainen – 1988
The formal development of critical thinking is discussed, and guidance is provided to help faculty insure that critical thinking becomes an integral part of learning. Theory, research, teaching practice, and college programs pertinent to the development and role of critical thinking are presented in order to show how educators have shaped…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Instruction, College Students, Critical Thinking
Dondis, Donis – 1981
This final report summarizes the activities of Phase 1 and Phase 2 of a project designed to develop curriculum materials to teach critical television viewing skills at the postsecondary level, including individuals in various community and professional groups, as well as students in formal educational programs. Defining such skills as those which…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audiovisual Aids, Broadcast Television, Curriculum Development
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