PerFinLit: Life After High School

When making decisions on what you want to do after high school, you may find it helpful to use the

• rational approach process

• rational decision model

• reasonable decision process

• reasonable decision criteria

The Rational Decision Model has 3 Components:

• Alternatives, Criteria, Rating System

• Criteria, Choices, Parental Directives

• Choices and Rational Ideas

• Alternatives, Opportunity Cost, Parental Decisions

What is an alternative, as associated with your choices for after high school?

• a type of music

• someone who takes your place if you can't perform your assigned duties

• a type of dance

• all viable options you can choose from

• All of these choices are good answers

Viable alternatives in choices after high school refers to

• options your friends have based on their talents & skills

• your specific options, based on your skills & talents

• your options based on what your parents are telling you they will pay for

• options based on your friends' ideas that you should do what they do

Specific conditions or items that students use to distinguish alternatives refers to the term

• toys

• criteria

• technicalities

• partition

My criteria for decision-making for life after high school

• should be based on what my friends are doing

• is the same as everyone else's

• is unique to me & my situation

• what difference does it make since everyone uses the same criteria anyway

When selecting an alternative, there are 3 common rating systems I can use:

• 1.) lottery system; 2.) luck of the draw; 3.) ranking system

• 1.) yes/no/maybe system; 2.) duck, duck, goose selection; 3.) lottery system

• 1.) yes/no/maybe system; 2.) rating system; 3.) ranking system

• there is no common ranking system

What is a yes/no/maybe system?

• marks each alternative as yes, no, or maybe depending on how well it meets the criteria; choice with the most "yes" votes is chosen

• each choice is ranked in order of importance & the top item is selected

• student chooses the selection his/her friends prefer

• student plays duck, duck goose & the goose selection wins

What is a rating system?

• all choices are put on paper & placed in a fishbowl; an item is drawn out & this is the choice the student uses

• another name for a yes/no/maybe system

• student chooses the selection his/her friends prefer

• each choice is ranked on a scale of 0 to 2 & the alternative with the highest score is chosen

What is a ranking system?

• student plays duck, duck goose & the goose selection wins

• student chooses the selection his/her friends prefer

• each alternative is ranked low to high, based on identified criteria; item with the highest score is chosen

• student chooses selection his/her parents prefer