The document discusses criteria for selecting recipients of a limited number of available heart pumps. It provides a list of candidates for the pumps and their backgrounds. A group must establish criteria, judge the candidates against those criteria, and select the top three candidates to present to the class. The group's job is to 1) describe criteria, 2) judge candidates, 3) take notes on decisions, and 4) choose and explain the top three candidates if more than three qualify.

1. Creating a Criteria
Def. A principle or standard by which
something may be judged or decided.

2. CRITERIA
A criterion is a standard or
measure of something, like a test
of qualifications.

3. Criteria for College Admissions
• A certain score on the SAT or
ACT
• Passing certain courses
• Writing an essay
• Minimum GPA

4. Developing Criteria
The importance of developing good
criteria cannot be underestimated.
The criteria you establish must reflect
your position on the best candidates
for the heart pump.

5. Selection Criteria
The selection criteria your group
creates will be the values and ideas
needed to make the best choice for a
heart pump recipient. They will be
the factors against which candidates
are assessed to determine who
should receive the heart pump.

6. Your Job as a Team
This week there is a new group of applicants who
are interested in obtaining a heart pump. Each of
these people will die within 48 hours if they do
not obtain the use of the heart pump which is
available through the Heart Foundation.
Unfortunately, only three heart pumps are
available, and the board of directors must
determine which candidates should benefit from
the available pumps. Each group must create
criteria for judging the applicants. The criteria
must be agreed upon by the entire group.

7. Your Job as a Team
1. Working with your partners, describe the characteristics needed
to meet the criteria for use of the heart pump.
2. Study each candidate who is asking for use of the heart pump.
Judge whether the person meets the criteria established by the
group. Discuss the decisions with your partners and explain
why/why not each candidate meets the criteria.
3. During the discussion, take notes in complete sentences. State
the candidates who match the criteria and why. For the
candidates who do not meet the criteria, write an explanation why
not.
4. If you have more than three candidates who meet the criteria,
determine which three are the best matches. Explain why.
5. Be prepared to make you recommendations to the whole class
including the criteria established by your group.

8. Candidates
• Member of the Senate • Political Activist
• Age 50 • Age 26
• Chair of the un-American Affairs • Girlfriend active in women’s lib
Committee
• Author of many books and
• Leader of the Congressional articles
Hawks
• Has appeared on talk shows
• Disinherited by his father for
• Believes in radical change for
participating in demonstrations
society
• Belongs to the Chamber of
• I.Q. 165
Commerce
• Minority from the South

9. Candidates
• Psychiatrist • College Freshman
• Age 59 • Age 19
• Makes a lot of money • Jewish-upper middle class
• Studied in Vienna, Austria parents
• Divorced and remarried, • Graduated top 1/3 of high
no kids school class
• Consultant to National • Honor student
Civil Rights groups • Undecided on future
• Expert in “Psychology of career
the Ghetto” • Only child
• Shy and quiet

10. Candidates
• Mother • Scientist
• Age 42 • Age 50
• Two children • On the verge of a cure for
• Widow Cancer
• Husband was former • Two previous nervous
leader in national politics breakdowns
• Many magazine articles • Divorced
about her • Three grown children but no
• Remarried and has money contact in the last five years
• Excommunicated Catholic • Quirky
• Very sophisticated • History of heart disease in
• Loyal to her friends family

11. Candidates
• Girl • Father
• Age 12 • Age 36
• Average I.Q. • Three children
• Teachers describe her as • Salesman
shy, withdrawn, and • Good citizen
inhibited.
• Volunteer work for the
• Family immigrated to NY
Republican Party
the year she was born.
• Attends church regularly
• Came from China
—Baptist
• Father owns a restaurant • Good father-devoted to
family

12. Candidates
• Woman • Retired Teacher
• Age 65
• Age 55
• Donated the pumps
• Taught math for 30 years in an
• Would not donate the pumps
affluent community
until her husband was given a
position on the board • Raised test scores
• Poor medical risk • Divorced
• Possibility of more gifts • Two grown children who have
• Well known community graduated from college
member • One child is married and
• Application submitted by an pregnant with first grandchild
anonymous board member

13. Candidates
• Student • Postal Worker
• Age 6 • Age 29
• Learning disabled first • Recently placed on
disability
grader
• Single with one child
• Currently in foster
• Not the custodial parent
care until parent’s
• Behind on child support
incarceration ends but faithfully visits child
• Healthy • Lives with parents

14. Candidates
• Philanthropist • Athlete
• Age 72 • Age 22
• Active in community • Recently drafted by the
• Good citizen pros
• Has donated and built half • Makes a lot of money in
of the city endorsements
• Average medical risk • Single
• Married with grown • Known as a “player”
children • Started a foundation for
• Nationally known figure sick kids

15. Candidates
• Student • Cab Driver
• Age 16 • Age 33
• Average student • Father of four children
under the
• Currently on probation • ages of 12
for MIP • Speaks English as a second
• Unsure about future language
• Played football • Children are American
citizens
• Popular

16. Candidates
• College Junior • Snow Plow Driver
• Age 21 • Age 43
• Has 1113 Facebook • Father of three and
friends married for 20 years
• Majoring in business • House is currently in
• Rushing a sorority foreclosure
• Wife is having an affair but
• Average grades
he is not aware of this
• Parents donated to the • Children are good
new building for students
business majors

17. Candidates
• Holocaust Survivor • Woman
• Age 84 • Age 37
• Healthy • Single and wealthy
• Gives testimony all • Travels the world
over the USA • Donates money to the
• Currently helping to hospital every year
archive artifacts and • Healthy
stories in Washington • Known to be kind and
DC generous
• No family

18. Candidates
• Newborn • Artist
• Age one month • Age 58
• Parents are minority • Arrested for
demonstrating back in
• Parents are active in college
church • On and off welfare
• Father owns a car lot • Extremely talented and
• Medical risk involved creative

19. CRITERIA