Browsing by Subject "decision making"
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Decision Model Applied to Groundwater Remediation
(Oklahoma State University, 2010-05-01)A decision making methodology was used to design and propose several remediation plans for a former hazardous and radioactive waste burial site. The site, situated on a 1.6 acre property located west of 44th Street in ... -
Diagnostic reasoning approaches and success rates in bomb disposal
(2023-05)As professions, medicine and bomb disposal have many similarities, with one easily recognizable commonality being that practitioners in both disciplines rely on decision-making that is objective, dispassionate, and to the ... -
Exploring preservice teachers' technology integration repertoire: A mixed methods study
(2022-12)The purpose of this convergent mixed methods study was to explore how an undergraduate educational technology course impacts preservice teachers' TPACK knowledge and how it affects the development of their technology ... -
The Federal Emergency Management Agency: A New Era of Weather Disaster Management
(2019-08-01)Weather directly accounts for nearly all Major Disaster Declarations nationwide and plays a critical role in FEMA decision making. However, the decision making process among FEMA, and emergency management in general, is ... -
Negotiating the Meaning of Team Expertise: A Firefighter Team’s Epistemic Denial
(Small Group Research, 2013-02-01)In this case study, we report how a team of firefighters critiqued one of its member’s decisions to facilitate learning and process improvement. The study is supported by 500+ hr of ethnographic observations, documents, ... -
Supporting Situation Awareness and Decision Making in Weather Forecasting
(2016-05)Weather forecasting is full of uncertainty, and as in domains such as air traffic control or medical decision making, decision support systems can affect a forecaster’s ability to make accurate and timely judgments. ... -
Who makes better decisions? The relative importance of numeracy and cognitive abilities for elements of decision making
(2020)The rapidly changing nature of work has increased the importance of non-routine thinking skills required to make decisions under risk and uncertainty. Cognitive ability tests are traditionally considered a robust tool for ...