Development of an Effective Decision-Skills Curriculum for Secondary School Students

9450237格雷戈里提高中学生的决策能力是教育改革运动的重要组成部分。它也是对有竞争力的劳动力进行工人教育的一个组成部分。在以前资助的探索性赠款中，为各种学科开发了模块，其中的内容也通过强调决策技能来教授。该项目以此为基础，进一步开发、测试和评估教授八项决策技能的具体内容模块。决策技能与基于主题的材料交织在一起。学生们扮演着积极决策者的角色，面临着科学家面临的问题：解释相互矛盾的结果，了解不确定性的来源，知道在缺乏信息的情况下何时继续前进，何时有必要寻找更多信息，区分个人价值观和职业价值观，知道如何最好地与拥有不同技能的同事团队合作，所有人对世界的看法都可能略有不同。该项目是与俄勒冈州尤金和其他地区的教师一起完成的。到目前为止的结果表明，学生和教师发现这些材料很吸引人，科学学习变得更加相关。这些材料包括将决策技能联系在一起的特定学科模块，作为对科学和决策的介绍，以及供教师了解如何加强传统科学教学的决策技能手册和视频。***

9450237 Gregory Improvement of the decision-making skills of secondary school students is an important component of the educational reform movement. It is also a component in the education of workers for the competitive workforce. In a previously-funded, exploratory grant, modules were developed for a variety of disciplines in which the content was taught by also emphasizing decision skills. This project builds upon that base to further develop, test and evaluate content-specific modules which teach the eight decision skills. Decision skills are interwoven with subject-based material. Students are placed in the role of active decision makers, faced with problems confronting scientists: interpreting conflicting outcomes, understanding sources of uncertainty, knowing when to go ahead despite a lack of information and when it is necessary to seek out additional information, distinguishing personal from professional values and knowing how best to work with a team of colleagues, possessing diverse skills, all of whom may see the world a little differently. The project is done with teachers in Eugene, Oregon and other locations. Results to date indicate that students and teachers find the materials engaging and that the learning of science becomes more relevant. The materials include discipline-specific modules which link decision-making skills, serving as an introduction to both the science and the decision-making and a decision skills handbook and video for teachers to see how to augment traditional science teaching. ***