A limited survey was made of course offerings in the area of decision science in educational administration programs. The data indicate that most of the surveyed programs offer at least a component of a course in decision science, and that these courses are relatively new -- most having been initially offered in the past three years. (Parts of…

A survey of the use of eight decision-science techniques was conducted in a stratified random cample of school districts in the United States. The purpose of the study was to determine the relative use frequency of these techniques in 14 application areas and the potential uses of the techniques in the school districts. The amount of formal…