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Decision quality framework with six elements for assessing decisions about the future

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Adapted from a decision quality framework based on decision analysis concepts and tools, the article represents decision quality regarding the future in six elements: "setting an appropriate frame, considering creative and practical alternatives, gathering meaningful and reliable information, identifying synergies and trade-offs to evaluate the consequences of alternatives, using logical reasoning to weigh decisions, and implementing action". Geography teachers can develop assessments to gauge decision quality at any point of the decision-making process.

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  • Decision quality framework with six elements for assessing decisions about the future: Adapted from a decision quality framework based on decision analysis concepts and tools, the article represents decision quality regarding the future in six elements: "setting an appropriate frame, considering creative and practical alternatives, gathering meaningful and reliable information, identifying synergies and trade-offs to evaluate the consequences of alternatives, using logical reasoning to weigh decisions, and implementing action". Geography teachers can develop assessments to gauge decision quality at any point of the decision-making process. (Xi Xiang et al. (2025))

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  • Xi Xiang & Michael E. Meadows. (2025). Being proactive about anthropogenic environmental changes: augmenting students' decision making with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-025-10523-9
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description Adapted from a decision quality framework based on decision analysis concepts and tools, the article represents decision quality regarding the future in six elements: "setting an appropriate frame, considering creative and practical alternatives, gathering meaningful and reliable information, identi
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