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DECISION MAKING

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Decision making,as a higher-order thinking skill, is used in situations in which there are a number of possible or workable answers.

Steps to good decision making include the following:

-- define the goal
-- identify alternative possibilities
-- analyze the alternative possibilities
-- rank order the alternatives
-- judge the highest-ranked alternatives
-- choose the "best" alternative