Competent Decision Research Articles

The Importance of Planning the Development of Critical Thinking Skills in the Expected Learning Outcomes of Subject-Based Curricula

The aim of this article is to make a theoretical review of the requirement for the development of critical thinking as one of the most important skills today, known as the 4K skills of the 21st century. Critical thinking lies at the base of moral conduct and authentic intellectual growth, and as such is crucial to the prosperity of society as a whole. The complexity of critical thinking is reflected in the fact that it takes numerous cognitive processes to initiate it and the acquisition of a specific set of knowledge, skills and values that should conduct it. Critical thinking is a generative competence whose actuality transcends space and time, and due to the ubiquity of situations in which there is a need for it, it should not be neglected within the framework of school learning and teaching outcomes. The methodology for creating the expected learning outcomes in the curriculum approach is usually guided by Bloom’s taxonomy, but the hierarchy of this taxonomy is not compatible with the hierarchy of critical thinking skills, which is why, when defining the expected learning outcomes, it would be more adequate to use the table of critical thinking competencies proposed by Iva Buchberger. Finding the best available ways of practicing critical thinking skills in class is the duty of modern pedagogy, so that the school fulfills its obligation to form the personality of students who are capable of competent decision-making and action.

Опыт зарубежных исследований в области акустических архитектурных решений в школах для детей с аутизмом

Nowadays, teaching children with autism in secondary schools is a new practice for Russia. Its implementation requires special knowledge and skills from all involved specialists. It also requires special architectural and design practices at all construction stages: from the project to the object itself. After competent planning decisions, the most important element is acoustic comfort in speech therapy and other rooms for inclusive purposes. Students with special educational needs, including autism, have a high level of sensitivity to noise with strong tonal, impulsive, or intermittent characteristics. A correct controlled acoustic environment is necessary to preserve the normotypic behavior of students with autism in the schools. Indeed, we should consider their needs when performing functional zoning and avoid artificial formation of a quiet environment for the learning process. Hence, generalising communication skills in an acoustically unchanged environment will ensure maximum students’ integration into social interactions both inside and outside the school.

Foster parents’ encounters with the system: the importance of child welfare workers’ traits in promoting satisfaction with the foster care system

ABSTRACT Despite the substantial role child welfare workers play in the foster care system, few studies have examined how their traits contribute to foster parents’ satisfaction with the foster care system. This study addresses this gap using a survey of 515 Danish foster parents. Results showed that competence, trust, and favorable decisions had significant and independent effects on foster parent satisfaction, while warmth and acknowledgment did not. These findings emphasize the need to prioritize trust and competence in child welfare workers’ interactions with foster parents to enhance satisfaction and address recruitment and retention challenges in the foster care system.

Designing Culturally Competent Clinical Decision Support Systems to Reduce Health Disparities in Underserved Populations

Income inequality is associated with poor health. Both the cost of medical care and the utilization of services vary. The high expense of health care pushes a significant portion of Indian households into poverty. The surroundings in which people live, grow, work, and interact with one another are known as social determinants, and they have a big influence on people's well-being which can be reduced by computerized clinical decision support systems. In today's healthcare, computerized clinical decision support systems, or CDSS, represent a paradigm change. Clinicians can use CDSS to support them in making complicated decisions. Rapid advancements have been made in CDSS since they were used in the 1980s. Due to the growing worldwide usage of advanced electronic medical records, they are frequently administered using computerized clinical processes and electronic medical records.

Juridical Analysis of Implementation of Multi-Purpose Financing Agreements at PT. Sinarmas Mataram Branch

This research aims to analyze the implementation of multipurpose financing at the Mataram branch of Sinarmas Multifinance, as well as to analyze the settlement in the event of a debtor defaulting in a multipurpose financing agreement at Sinarmas Multifinance Mataram branch. By using empirical legal research methods. The results of this research show that the implementation of multi-purpose financing agreements in multi-finance companies begins with good intentions between the two parties entering into the agreement. Settlement of disputes if the debtor defaults on the financing agreement, in this case PT. Sinarmas Multifinance has made its own rules in accordance with the provisions for the execution of fiduciary guarantees in PT multipurpose financing agreements. Sinarmas Multifinance is stated in the terms and conditions of the multipurpose financing agreement providing funding facilities in the provisions of Article 6. Multipurpose agreement made by PT. Sinarmas Multi Finance Mataram Branch is legally strong enough to protect its interests and conversely its protection for consumers is very weak, however the practice/procedure or mechanism of the multipurpose agreement implemented by PT. Sinarmas Multi Finance Mataram Branch has created a weak position for debtors. Apart from that, the execution process at PT. Sinarmas Multifinance Mataram Branch does not wait for the Court's Decision, which according to the rules in the execution process must first wait for the competent Court's Decision. multipurpose agreement, the parties, both creditors and debtors, should understand their respective rights and obligations and be responsible for implementing the agreement as agreed in good faith and complying with the prohibitions contained in the agreement so as not to cause disputes that cause losses to the parties.

Parenting dimensions and views on adolescent decision making in health care: A cross-national study of Belgian and Dutch parents.

The aim of this study was to investigate the link between parenting and parents' perspectives on health-related decision making for adolescents. During adolescence, there is a gradual increase in responsibility and autonomy, which influences parenting behavior and child development. Understanding how parenting is associated with parents' views on medical decision making is crucial in the context of the parent-child-physician triad. This study was the first to explore parenting and parents' views on adolescent health care decision making. We compare Belgian and Dutch parents-two countries selected for their different legal frameworks on medical adolescent decision making. An online questionnaire surveyed 984 Belgian and 992 Dutch parents (ages 35-55) with at least one child. Analytical methods included t tests, structural equation modeling, and latent profile analysis. Parents considered adolescents to be competent decision makers at 16.7 years old. Dutch parents granted autonomy at younger ages than Belgian parents. Parents with high behavioral expectations granted autonomy to adolescents at higher ages, while those high in autonomy support and punishment granted autonomy at lower ages. When classifying parents into profiles, we distinguished four types: highly permissive, moderately permissive, moderately restrictive, and highly restrictive groups. The majority of the sample was classified into moderately and highly restrictive profiles. The study highlighted the importance of providing parents with education and support on adolescent development and autonomy. Parenting practices that encourage autonomy and support open communication between parents and adolescents may contribute to a more trusting and supportive parent-child context for adolescent medical decision making. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

МЕТОДОЛОГІЧНІ ПІДХОДИ ДО УПРАВЛІННЯ ПРОФЕСІЙНИМ РОЗВИТКОМ НАУКОВО-ПЕДАГОГІЧНИХ ПРАЦІВНИКІВ КОМУНАЛЬНОГО ЗВО

The article updates the problem of managing the professional development of scientific and pedagogical workers of a communal institution of higher education, since the research of the mentioned phenomenon must be carried out using substantiated methodological approaches. Based on the results of the analysis of scientific and pedagogical literature, it was concluded that modern scientists have not fully studied the issue of methodological approaches to the management of professional development of scientific and pedagogical workers of a communal institution of higher education. In the article, the leading methodological approaches are defined as integrative, innovative, motivational, activity, reflexive, andragogic, competence, humanistic, person-oriented, axiological, acmeological, centralized, decentralized, regional. It has been established that the implementation of the integration approach allows to ensure the coherence of actions between all sections of the organizational structure of the communal institution of higher education. The use of an innovative approach has a positive effect on the emergence of new modern management ways of increasing the efficiency of higher education institutions. Taking into account the motivational approach ensures an increase in the internal motivation of scientific and pedagogical workers, the activity approach ‒ professional selfactualization, the reflective approach ‒ strengthening their ability to self-assess, adequate self-analysis. It is emphasized that the introduction of the andragogic approach allows to strengthen the connection between theory and practice of adult education, to determine ways of improving the qualifications of pedagogical workers. It was concluded that taking into account the principles of the competence approach helps in making balanced competent decisions, the humanistic approach helps to build friendly and tolerant relations between all participants in the process of managing professional development, and the person-oriented approach ‒ the development of individual qualities and abilities. The author also substantiates the significance of the axiological approach to the researched phenomenon (the application ensures the perception of the human personality as a value), acmeological (the implementation helps to achieve professionalism), centralized and decentralized (taking into account allows to find out the degree of influence on the management of professional development), as well as regional (the application provides take into account the peculiarities of a certain region) approaches.

Predictors of standardized in-service examination performance and residency outcomes in a graduate periodontics program.

The objectives of this study were to assess the influence of learner- and education-related factors on standardized in-service examination performance and determine whether in-service examination scores predict residency outcomes. American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) In-service Examination (AIE) scores from 10 periodontics residency classes at a single center were recorded and compared against a panel of learner- and education-related variables using multiple linear regression models. Defined residency outcome measures were analyzed against AIE scores using binomial logistic regression. No evaluated learner- or education-related variable was a statistically significant predictor of AIE score in this study sample. Likewise, AIE score was not a statistically significant predictor of any assessed residency outcome. The AAP has performed a tremendous service to periodontics residents and programs by marshaling the leadership and expertise necessary to offer a professionally constructed assessment instrument. However, in the current study, no relationship could be identified between AIE score and any outcome, including first-attempt board certification. The AAP In-service Committee appears well situated to provide additional leadership focusing on exam implementation, which may enhance AIE value in competency decision making.

An integrated AI framework for managing organizational risk and climate change concerns in B2B market

The United Nations identified sustainable development goals that focus on the three pillars of sustainability-Economy, Society, and Environment. The capability of Artificial intelligence (AI) for societal good and support to these three pillars is a matter of research importance. Drawing attention to literature on various AI frameworks for climate change and the dynamic capability theory, this study conducts a survey of managers working within their AI ecosystem of B2B firms. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling are used to test the reliability, validity, and fitness of the research model. This model illustrates how big data-based AI system can influence business performance due to climate change. Research findings reveals paths involving “big data based artificial intelligence system”, “climate change competency process (prediction competency, mitigation competency, adaptation competency)”, “climate competent decision-making,” and “firm performance”, are statistically significant. As a part of research validation, three business cases are studied that focus on the decision-making capability of business under an uncertain environment. This study justifies that climate competent decision-making is a critical skill for businesses operating under uncertain environmental changes. This research brings out management perceptions generated due to climate change and discusses how they influence managers' behaviors that alter relationship dynamics and structure.

Making managerial decisions based on analysis of financial statements

Today, in a changing economic situation, an important condition for ensuring financial stability and maximizing profits for commercial organizations is tactical and strategic planning, based on a competent analysis of financial statements. Developing a management decision is considered one of the fundamental tasks of the enterprise management process. Analysis of the financial statements of a commercial organization allows you to assess the financial position, performance efficiency and prospects for its development, which helps to identify possible problems and propose ways to solve them. The authors substantiate the role of financial reporting analysis for making competent management decisions. The article analyzes the financial statements of PJSC «Pigment» for 2019–2021. The stages of making management decisions and the circumstances influencing them are also considered. An analysis of the main indicators of financial stability, liquidity and profitability of the enterprise indicates an increase in operating efficiency and a certain decrease in financial stability. Based on the analysis, effective management decisions are developed to overcome existing financial difficulties.

Assessing the Effect of Socio-Scientific Inquiry-Based Learning on Socio-Scientific Decision-Making Skill among Senior High School Students

The use of socio-scientific issues as a context in education is very important because education needs to include interdisciplinary and holistic learning. When dealing with socio-scientific issues, students are expected to be able to make competent decisions. This study was aimed to determine the effect of the Socio-scientific Inquiry-Based Learning (SSIBL) on students' socio-scientific decision-making skill. SSIBL is an inquiry-based learning model that places socio-scientific issues as learning contexts that need to be debated and solved through a series of inquiry processes. This study was a quasi-experimental with a non-equivalent control group design, conducted at senior high school MAN 2 Kota Bima, Indonesia. The target population consisting of all students of grade XI with a total of 254 students. Students of XI IPA 3, 4, 5, and 7 classes were chosen as samples through random sampling. Data were collected through pre-test and post-test of socio-scientific decision-making test, then analyzed using ANCOVA. The results showed that there were significant differences of socio-scientific decision-making between students in the experimental group and students in the control group. The research indicated that the SSIBL model has an effect on increasing the socio-scientific decision-making of students in grade XI MAN 2 Kota Bima.

Socioeconomy of Family Farmers in the Quilombola Settlement Project in Óbidos, Pará, Brazil: Subsidies for the Management of Quilombola Family Farming

Objective: Analyze the socioeconomics of family farmers in the Quilombola Settlement Project in Óbidos-PA, in order to subsidize the management of Quilombola family production agricultural systems. Theoretical framework: It presents the historical and institutional process of environmentally differentiated projects and the historical and current context of the existing quilombola communities in Brazil, as well as the current socioeconomic situation experienced by the quilombolas. Method: The research is classified as quantitative-descriptive. A case study was carried out through the application of interviews and direct observation. 100 quilombola farmers from the municipality of Óbidos, Pará. Brazil participated in the research. Data were organized in Excel for Windows® spreadsheets and analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results and conclusion: The results showed that most quilombola farmers have a low level of education, their families are relatively large and they live in precarious housing and basic sanitation conditions, with a monthly income of less than the minimum wage. The results also showed that family farming is the main source of income and subsistence and the federal government's social programs are the main sources of financial supplementation. Research implications: This research will contribute with competent authorities and decision makers in proposing public policies that provide a better quality of life for settled families and promote the development of the local communities involved, which lead in the seventh position with the largest quilombola population in Brazil. Originality/value: Knowledge of the socio-economics of quilombola family farmers in an agrarian reform settlement area will support public managers and representative entities in decision-making and management of agricultural systems of family production.

Knowledge-Making in Politics: Expertise in Democracy and Epistocracy

Recently, epistocrats have challenged the value of democracy by claiming that policy outcomes can be improved if the electorate were narrowed to empower only those with sufficient knowledge to inform competent policy decisions. I argue that by centering on contesting how well regimes employ extant knowledge in decision-making, this conversation has neglected to consider how regimes influence the production of knowledge over time. Science and technology studies scholars have long recognized that political systems impact the productivity of expert research. I argue that in order to evaluate which regime is “smarter,” we must consider not only how well they employ existing knowledge in decision-making, but we must also assess how those regimes influence the ongoing production of policy-relevant knowledge. Thus, I offer an instrumental defense of democracy based on its capacity to encourage a superior pattern and quality of expert research to inform policy decisions over time. Epistocracy may be effective at employing extant knowledge in the short run, but in the long run, democracy is a superior environment for producing knowledge to inform policy decisions.

Lis Pendens: How Oil Companies Spark Disputes in Nigeria: Energia Ltd and Ugboebili

Fishing in troubled waters appears to be the specialty of oil companies in Niger delta, Nigeria. This study which adopts the doctrinal method is a two-pronged work that looks at the relationship between Energia Ltd, an oil company that got a farm out from Elf Petroleum Ltd as a Local Content vehicle on the Emu-Obodougwa marginal field and the host families of Umu-Ozegbe family of Ogume in an earlier study and Umu-Ugboebili family of Emu-Ebendo in this study. It confronts and interrogates the circumstances that led Energia Ltd into building two huge Palaces for the Okpala Uku and Ada of Emu-Ebendo community on a disputed land which Umu-Ugboebili had lost to Gabriel Mgbonyebi and Ossai Olikili families in Suit Nos. NWACC/11/2011; NWACC/40/2011; NWACC/41/2011 and DCCA/5A/2014; and which the Umu-Ugboebili has tried unsuccessfully to over-turn before the Court of Appeal, Benin-City and currently, Court of Appeal, Asaba in CA/B/374/2014. The study is conducted by looking closely at the facts pleaded by the parties in the cases and the decisions of the courts and the implication of the decisions on the ownership of the two magnificent palaces given the common law doctrine of lis pendens through the cases. The study finds that although Energia Ltd and Ebendo community were clearly aware that Umu-Ugboebili family lost the entire land on which the family resides currently by virtue of the showing of the Litigation Survey Plan No: BENO/DT/2012/DIS/004 they tendered before all the three courts, Energia Ltd still went ahead and acquired the lis pendens from Umu-Ugboebili family and Emu-Ebendo community to build the two Palaces on troubled waters. It finds that Energia Ltd and such other oil companies in the third world are fond of the attitude of not staring clear from disputed lands and investigating unimaginative claims of natives who have been empowered by oil money and are out to undermine competent court decisions and in the process, compound the commensality that predated them on the spaces. It was further found that such moves have threatened traditional institutions and produced unrepentant colonies of natives in communal agitation who are eager to win cases at first whistle by compromising the court of first instance but will not go far in the appeals because of the nature of facts they purvey and the strength of the evidence they ventilate and the caliber of legal representatives they engage. The study recommends that the community liaison offices of the companies be manned by non-natives without biases for their neigbohours with previous acrimonies; and owners of the land such palaces are built in error should occupy them.

The prioruty directions of child and adolescent health care in the Russian Federation

The article defines the priority areas for the protection of the health of children and adolescents, carried out a content analysis of the legal framework, revealed a negative trend in the prevalence of pathology in this population group. Particular attention has to be paid to the consistency and interdepartmental systemic approach that takes into account territorial features in the formation of strategic priorities for regional health care, especially within the framework of previously approved regional programs for the development of children's health care, and the results obtained can become the basis for making effective and competent management decisions by territorial health authorities.

Audit of the Effectiveness of Inter-Budgetary Relations: The Case of Tourism Industry

At present, in the context of financial, socio-economic and political tension, in order to ensure the legal and effective conduct of the financial activities of the state, it is necessary to involve state audit, because its results precede the issuance of new laws and regulations, contribute to the effectiveness of public resource management, the adoption of competent management decisions, the right choice and setting of appropriate goals. To ensure the development of the tourism industry, comprehensive state support is needed, which includes the creation of a special system of legislative acts and the creation of favorable conditions for attracting investment and infrastructure development. Research and assessment of the public debt management system and the development of a methodology for their audit contribute to the improvement of control over the effectiveness of the formation, management and assessment of public debt. In general, the state audit for Kazakhstan is seen as a holistic and independent assessment effectiveness and activity of the audited objects, covering not only financial issues, but also all directions of their activities and with the presentation of effective recommendations based on the identified deficiencies and proposals for risk management. The article considers the organization of efficiency audit in the field of tourism, analyzes state budget expenditures in this service sector.

TO THE PROBLEM OF DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS OF THE LOWER EXTREMITIES IN THE POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD

A review of foreign literature sources on the problem of postoperative development of deep vein thrombosis of the lower extremities is presented. The incidence of deep vein thrombosis of the lower extremities among patients who have undergone surgery depends on the type of surgery and risk factors to which the patient is exposed. Thrombosis is most likely to develop after open operations on large vessels, orthopedic and traumatological operations on the extremities. Of no small importance are blood counts, the presence of concomitant diseases such as hypertension, hypertension of the small circulatory circle, diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis and other chronic diseases. It is important to make a competent decision on surgical intervention, taking into account all the risk factors to which the patient is exposed, choosing an individual approach in the prevention of postoperative thrombosis.

КОРПОРАТИВНАЯ СОЦИАЛЬНАЯ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬ КАК ЭЛЕМЕНТ ДЕЛОВОЙ РЕПУТАЦИИ СОВРЕМЕННОГО ПРЕДПРИЯТИЯ

Modern commercial enterprises achieve success in business not only due to competent financial decisions and marketing policy. The level of profit in recent years has been significantly influenced by the corporate social responsibility program implemented by the company. It allows you to build optimal relationships with business partners, consumers, regional authorities, investors. Due to the external and internal social policy, the company forms a favorable image in the eyes of stakeholders and improves its business reputation. The article discusses various approaches to the term "corporate social responsibility" and clarifies this concept. The significance of the connection of the corporate social responsibility program with the enterprise strategy is substantiated. The analysis of the signs of socially responsible behavior of the organization is carried out and the most significant ones are identified among them. Using the example of the rating of large Russian industrial enterprises, the influence of corporate social responsibility on the business reputation of companies is shown. The advantages that socially responsible companies receive are considered and justified taking into account foreign experience. Priority areas and projects in the field of corporate social responsibility that are relevant for Russian companies are highlighted. Activities and projects in the field of corporate social responsibility are proposed, the implementation of which will have a positive impact on the business reputation of Russian companies and will find support from stakeholders.

BUSINESS ACTIVITY AND FINANCIAL RESULTS OF THE ACTIVITIES OF BANKING INSTITUTIONS

This article presents the theoretical and practical problems of managing the bank’s business activity and financial results. It is grounded that the management of business activity is a very responsible and complex process, in which the professionalism of management personnel plays the main role. Only clear and competent decisions made on the basis of economic analysis can give a result that will increase the efficiency of the enterprise. The study of business activity is based on the calculation of coefficients that more correctly reflect its state from a financial point of view, coefficients of the dynamics of the development, use of the resources and capital, receivables and payables, including labor resources. It has been proven that for the activity of a modern banking institution, the analysis of the financial results of its activity is quite significant. In particular, financial analysis of banks' activities is important for clients. After all, clients are more willing to trust their own investments only to competitive and financially stable banking institutions of the state. The example of the liquidation and bankruptcy of a large number of banking institutions in Ukraine and subsequent problems with the return of deposits to their depositors attracts the attention of an increasing number of the ordinary citizens to the analysis of the bank's financial results. Earning a profit plays an important role in the activity of a banking institution. Obtaining profit by the bank allows to obtain the maximum information for determining the financial stability of the bank. In the future, this assessment will provide an opportunity to draw conclusions about the development prospects and financial situation of the bank both for its customers, creditors, depositors, and for the NBU, which constantly supervises the activities of banking organizations. Practical aspects of the subject under study are presented on the example of JSC CB «Privatbank». It was analyzed that JSC CB «Privatbank» is actively developing: there is an increase in assets for the period 2019-2021 and the main indicator of the bank’s activity efficiency – profit. Analyzing the main indicators of business activity and profitability of JSC CB «PrivatBank», it is worth noting that in 2019-2021, all indicators corresponded to the recommended values, however, in 2020, indicators of profitability of assets, profitability of capital and net interest margin decreased significantly.

An Ontology to Represent the Prevention through Design (PtD) Concept in Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) in the Construction Industry from an Architectural Perspective

The Prevention through Design (PtD) concept has been widely used to mitigate potential safety and health hazards and minimize residual risks during the early design phase. Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) prioritizes project-wide collaboration and coordination; therefore, the importance of PtD has been widely recognized. There are still neglected issues pertaining to the implementation of the PtD concept from the architectural perspective. Hence, to fill this research gap, this review was motivated to highlight the ontological framework of PtD practices in the construction industry from the architectural perspective. The study is a thematic review aimed to synthesize the literature from 2011 to 2022 on the PtD concept from an architectural perspective. The study, using ATLAST.ti 8, a keyword search, followed by a filter using inclusion criteria from Scopus, Science Direct, Web of Science databases, and the snowball method, identified and analyzed 93 peer-reviewed journal articles. However, only 41 articles were used in the final review after the inclusion and exclusion process. A thematic review of these 41 articles identified five clusters representing the ontological framework findings, namely (1) designer competency, (2) planning and design decision making, (3) technologies related to building safety, (4) design features and workplace condition, and (5) laws and building legislation. The finding is expected to improve the understanding and implementation of the PtD concept to further develop an architectural safety design framework.