By enabling students to mediate their own disputes, educators may be synthesizing the finest potential in the school--the creative, constructive dynamic inherent in conflict. This article describes a mediated dispute resolution program used in several schools and offers implementation advice. (MLH)

Having been identified as either concrete or abstract thinkers, 94 secondary school students were presented with a scenario and questioned regarding time needed to make a decision, effect of emotional stress on decision making, and identification of all possible decisions. Results and implications for health education are discussed. (MT)

Describes a participatory management project that focused on distribution of management behaviors and facilitated a continual renewal process. Includes illustrations and tables. (MD)

Project CAREER (Career Awareness Research and Exploration for Executive Residency) attempts to meet the career needs of gifted students (grades 7-12) through phases of career education leading to specific career decision making. Project evaluation results show increased teacher and student competence. (CL)

Presents three simulations in which participants must make decisions based on a limited number of choices among a defined set of alternatives. Students (1) decide which English convicts will be transported to the colonies; (2) place individuals in one of two retirement homes; and (3) choose which children will help their mother draw up her will.…

Examines the ability of the theory of reasoned action to explain and predict adolescents' verbal (i.e., insulting) and physical (i.e., fighting) aggression, as well as behaviors that encourage aggression such as watching a fight or telling others about a fight that is going to happen. Reveals that attitudes and subjective norms predicted…

Describes how a model and modeling perspective provide alternative ways of thinking about mathematics teaching and learning to produce conceptual tools that have implications for decision-making issues. (Author/KHR)

Discusses four decision-making models and applies them to the evaluation of staff development programs. (SR)

In this booklet, one of a series intended to apply economic principles to major social and political issues of the day, it is argued that government regulation of business has produced disappointing results, as evidenced by the steady rise of inflation rates in the 1970's, continuing unemployment, declining labor productivity, and increases in…

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…

Career guidance techniques in this package focus on the competency area of decisionmaking skills. The package is one of eight, each covering one of the following career guidance competencies that were identified and validated as needed by teachers to assist in the career development of their students: Valuing, decisionmaking, lifestyle, community…

Metaphorically, the head and the heart represent different decision-making strategies. The disjunction between these two cultures is both sharp and unnecessary. The conflict between rationality and emotion is much broader than the tension between critical thinking and values analysis, but the assumptions responsible for the mutual awkwardness of…

Presents a lesson plan using "Decision at Richmond," a play dramatizing the debate over United States Constitutional ratification, to demonstrate to students the importance of the unique process used to make political decisions in the United States. (Author/AEM)

Ingredients necessary to forge successful, effective youth-adult partnerships: the conviction that adolescents can make a valuable contribution, long-term commitment to the project, and giving youths a definite organizational role are outlined with reference to the experience of the Youth Participation Project in Nassau County, New York. (JMM)

The role of staff development in establishing charactertistics of an effective school was examined in order to illuminate associations. A framework was used to categorize these characteristics into three critical dimensions. Two consistent patterns emerged that are described and used to present broad guidelines for the conduct of staff…