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Building Decision Skills: Teaching Ethical Awareness, Responsibility, and Perspective to High School Students

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Intervention Details

Subject

Other Academic Area

Academic Program

Service Learning

Duration

N/A

Grade

12

Personnel

General Education Teacher

Intervention Summary

Building Decision Skills is a curriculum that aims to develop students' decision-making skills, targeting their knowledge, attitudes, and values. The program includes a teacher's guide, lesson plans, readings, overheads, and handouts, and involves collaborative activities, group problem-solving, communication, and independent thinking. The curriculum can be implemented over a short period or spread out over time, and the Institute for Global Ethics offers on-site professional development workshops and seminars for teachers and students.

Statistical Finding Summary

Positive effect on ethical awareness

Positive effect on ethical responsibility

Positive effect on ethical perspective

Positive effect on social responsibility in school

Source

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse. (2007). Building Decision Skills. Retrieved from https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/WWC/intervention/102.

Data Sample by Population

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The subgroup population data as studied here are not available. That means that while this study may work well for your setting, we cannot say based on the published study and results from our system’s reading of that study what the school/district subgroup characteristics were when evaluated here.