Examines the correlates of three separate configurations of teacher participation in school system decisionmaking. Defining decisional participation in terms of differences in the number of decisional instances in which they actually participate, the identified decisional patterns are Deprivation, Equilibrium, and Saturation. Four hypotheses…

The role of the college or university attorney is vital to the integrity and management of the institution. The attorney is expert in a unique field of decisional, statutory, and regulatory law that recognizes the nature of the university's governance structure and its special mission in society. (30 footnotes) (MLF)

Discusses the role of the computer in the educational process and describes how the advanced computer system assists physicians in patient care. Distinguishes between informational and decisional support systems to help those anticipating the future role of computers in education. (JOW)

The explanatory cornerstone of most currently viable social theories is a strict cost-gain assumption. The clearest formal explication of this view is contained in subjective expected utility models (SEU), in which individuals are assumed to scale their subjective likelihood estimates of decisional consequences and the personalistic worth or…

This paper looks at the patterns of actual and desired participation in empirically determined decisional domains and at how such participation correlates with job satisfaction and role stress in teachers. (Author/IRT)

Examined the role of rational, intuitive, and dependent decisional strategies in facilitating decisions about postcollege occupation among college students (N=71). Results indicated that the use of a dependent decision-making style was the single most powerful predictor of progress. (LLL)

If previously discovered influence-participation relationships are applicable to operating school systems it should mean that by allowing and fostering increased decisional participation by teaching personnel, administrative officials should discover an increase in their relative influence. A study explored two questions: Among teachers is there…

This article discusses the role of teachers in curriculum development, including models for the training of teachers for curriculum selection. (Text is in German.) (Author/AM)

This study examined the relationship between individual elementary school teachers' implementation of an innovation and their participation in school decisions. Specifically, the research defined the innovation as the Instructional Programming Model (IPM), one of seven major components of the broader innovation known as Individually Guided…

Analyzes the five factors in combination that appear to account for the mind-set in which the decision to launch the Challenger was made: (1) perceived pressure, (2) rigid conformity to perceived role requirements, (3) questionable reasoning, (4) ambiguous use of language, and (5) failure to ask important relevant questions. (NKA)

Examines the resource decision processes of English education, with emphasis on decisional freedom and constraints, government influence, budgeting processes, fiscal accounting, and allocative mechanisms. (DB)

Several things influencing a college student's choice of major were investigated: gender, sex-role attitudes, cognitive styles, and decision-making processes. Students (N=578) were administered six different measures of sex-role attitudes and five different measures of cognitive style. Use of a path analysis technique suggested that gender…

A serious problem in the area of attitude research is the low relationship between verbal attitude and supposedly related overt behavior. A study tested a model derived from M. Deutsch's proposition on persuasive communication stating that for communication to be effective in a conflict situation, it must convey to the information receiver the…

To investigate the temporally ordered process in image and issue learning as it affects the voting decision, a study conducted a secondary analysis of panel survey data from Wisconsin during the 1976 presidential elections. The study hypothesized that, because of the difficulty in understanding complex issues, voters rely on image evaluations for…

Reviews concepts and practices related to various aspects of staffing. Also considers the division of responsibilities and assignment of tasks for individual staff members and for the entire agency, along with the different decisional strategies related to each. (CT)