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DECISION MAKING
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to:
define decision making skills appropriately.
explain components and models in decision making
skills.
explain strategies in decision making skills.
Glossary
Decision making
Possibility
Alternatives
Risks
Results
Decision evaluation
DECISION-MAKING SKILLS
There are several definitions of decision-making
skills:
1. Halpern (1996)
- make a choice between two or more mutually
exclusive alternatives.
- choose the best decision based on certain criteria.
2. Beyer (2000)
- make decisions involving multiple choice of
alternatives.
Sdorow (1990)
- an effort to try to make the best selection,
in action to get the results you want.
- In making decision there are two factors
need to be considered, namely:
a) utility/usefulness: the specified value to
the results obtained
b) probability: estimate alternatives
available leads to specific outcomes
Marzano (2000)
-The situation of a person to choose
between two or more possibilities in
making choices
- Steps in the selection:
a) identify what is required
b) identify the importance of every
possibility
c) identify alternatives to be considered
Presseisen (1987)
-in a problematic situation, the
responsibility of a person is to resolve
difficulties or constraints faced. The results
In conclusion
Decisions making involving mental
processes, such as creative thinking, critical
reasoning, management of internal conflict
to make a choice of alternatives, involves
making predictions of future situations.
How to Overcome
Hasty
Narrow
Sprawling
Fuzzy
b) Easy to remember
there are situations / events or new catchy
effect. catchy case will affect the decisionmaking
Example; Highland tower, buy a house
c) Analogy
- Two situations or events have in common
- Refer to the way or means that we used
for problems solving and making decisions
d) Representative
Using the representative for
purposes of summary
Making decisions in this way may be
Set as stereotype and probability
make mistake
Eg: buy oranges - one sweet, all OK
2) Generating ideas
a) Identify the problem
b) Form a selection
c)Selecting ideas
3) Plans
a) Identify the problem
b) Develop options
c) choosing a plan
4)Take action
a) Identify the problem
b) Develop options
c) To take future action
References
Moore, B. N. & Parker, R. (2015). Critical Thinking
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Companies, Inc.
Vogel, T. (2014). Breakthrough Thinking: A Guide
To Creative Thinking and Idea Generation. Ohio:
FW Media, Inc.
Allen, J. C. (2013). Emotional intelligence: The
emotional intelligence book. New York:
CreateSpace Independent Publishing.
Nosich, G. M. (2013). Learning to think things
through (4th Edition). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice
Hall.