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Sharples, Brian – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1975
Examines some of the organizational dysfunctions that can result from an overdependence on the "rational-economic" decision-making approach. (Author)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Economics, Efficiency
Cravens, Xiu Chen; Goldring, Ellen B.; Porter, Andrew C.; Polikoff, Morgan S.; Murphy, Joseph; Elliott, Stephen N. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2013
Purpose: Performance evaluation informs professional development and helps school personnel improve student learning. Although psychometric literature indicates that a rational, sound, and coherent standard-setting process adds to the credibility of an assessment, few studies have empirically examined the decision-making process. This article…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Cutting Scores, Decision Making, Standard Setting (Scoring)
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Sharples, Brian – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1977
Educational administrators should recognize both the usefulness of the analytical techniques available, and also their limitations. Administrators must begin to recognize the existence of the ethics or values that underlie all decisions. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Administrators, Decision Making, Economic Research, Educational Administration
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Simon, Herbert A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1993
Describes the current state of knowledge about human decision-making and problem-solving processes, explaining recent developments and their implications for management and management training. Rational goal-setting is the key to effective decision making and accomplishment. Bounded rationality is a realistic orientation, because the world is too…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Uses in Education, Decision Making, Educational Administration
Leithwood, Kenneth; Patten, Sarah; Jantzi, Doris – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2010
Purpose: This article describes and reports the results of testing a new conception of how leadership influences student learning ("The Four Paths"). Framework: Leadership influence is conceptualized as flowing along four paths (Rational, Emotions, Organizational, and Family) toward student learning. Each path is populated by multiple…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Instructional Leadership, Predictor Variables, Participative Decision Making