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Naidu, Sham – Online Submission, 2011
Stemming from my article entitled, "Teachers and the Policy Reform Agenda: What is Policy?," this article refers to the changing landscape of educational policy analysis. Policy influences the nature of teaching and learning and if teachers are to re-centre teachers' voices and combat the neo-liberal agenda underpinning public education, they must…
Descriptors: Ideology, Policy Analysis, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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Wilczynski, Susan M. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2012
Evidence-based practice (EBP) represents an important approach to educating and treating individuals diagnosed with disabilities or disorders. Understanding research findings is the cornerstone of EBP. The methodology of systematic reviews, which involves carefully analyzing research findings, can result a practice guideline that recommends…
Descriptors: Expertise, Evidence, National Standards, Risk
Naidu, Sham – Online Submission, 2011
Stemming from my article entitled, "Teachers and the Policy Reform Agenda: The Changing Emphasis in Educational Policy Analysis," this article describes the changing landscape of educational policy analysis. Here, I illustrate that traditionally teachers have been, to a certain degree, involved in policy processes. However, the degree to which…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Policy Analysis, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Kruppe, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine the decision-making processes of superintendents. Using a democratic lens and ethic of care, this researcher used a multiple case study design to examine two superintendents' perceptions of their processes. Analysis of interview data from the two cases showed that superintendents use a deliberative…
Descriptors: Interaction, Superintendents, Ethics, Participative Decision Making
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Donmoyer, Robert – Qualitative Inquiry, 2012
This article brackets assumptions embedded in the framing of this special issue on "problematizing methodological simplicity in qualitative research" in a effort to understand why policymakers put pressure on all types of researchers, including those who use qualitative methods, to provide relatively simple, even somewhat mechanistic portrayals of…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Social Life, Ethnography, Personal Narratives
Naidu, Sham – Online Submission, 2011
This article is related to the impacts on teachers of the increasing marginalization of their voices in educational policy making and policy debates. Policy influences the nature of teaching and learning and if teachers are to re-centre teachers' voices and combat the neo-liberal agenda underpinning public education, they must construct their own…
Descriptors: Expertise, Ideology, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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Malin, Joel R.; Lubienski, Christopher – Current Issues in Education, 2013
The success of some advocacy organizations in advancing their preferred policies despite questionable evidence of the effectiveness of these policies raises questions about what contributes to successful policy promotion. We hypothesize that some education-focused organizations are advancing their agendas by engaging media, with individuals who…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Opinions, Expertise, Policy Analysis
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Honig, Meredith I.; Coburn, Cynthia – Educational Policy, 2008
District central office administrators increasingly face policy demands to use "evidence" in their decision making. These demands up the ante on education policy researchers and policy makers to better understand what evidence use in district central offices entails and the conditions that may support it. To that end, the authors conducted a…
Descriptors: Central Office Administrators, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Data Interpretation
Openshaw, Stan – Planning Outlook, 1975
(Available from Oriel Press Limited, 32 Ridley Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8LH, Great Britain, $7.00 yearly.)
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Models
Helsabeck, Robert E. – 1973
The purpose of this work is to provide a conceptual framework applicable to most decisionmaking systems and to propose a set of propositions drawing together work from diverse fields concerned with political behavior. In the first chapter, key concepts are distinguished and the literature bearing on the relationships among those concepts are…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Higher Education, Models
Hewitson, Mal – 1992
Educational administrators have the power to determine the nature of decision-making structures and processes within their institutions and the extent to which decisions are implemented. This paper reviews assumptions underlying decision-making structures and processes established by school administrators; examines potential individual motives…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making
Durfee, Mary – 1988
Policy makers use past experience and history to think about current and potential problems and to explain policies and problems to others. Decision makers may be overly influenced by significant personally-experienced events that loom so large in their eyes that details and related relevant information may pale in comparison. Deficiencies in…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Evaluative Thinking
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Shields, Carolyn M. – Journal of Educational Thought/Revue de la Pensee Educative, 1995
Illustrates the use of concepts from the arts as metaphors to enhance educational policymaking, focusing on Alexander Pope's poetry, the development of planning models, and the interpretation of Quebec's Museum of Civilization as a metaphor and model for policymaking. Highlights the need for originality and creativity. (29 citations) (MAB)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Educational Planning, Educational Policy
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Hynes, Thomas J., Jr. – Journal of the American Forensic Association, 1980
Examines the premise that increased research provides important contributions to decision making. The study counterplan assumes that information can be developed in a way manageable to the policymaker, that study can assist in choosing from a variety of competing values, and that thoroughly researched decisions will be procedurally superior. (JMF)
Descriptors: Debate, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Evaluative Thinking
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Hedin, Diane – Social Studies Review, 1980
Outlines steps toward integrating student opinion into the policy and decision-making structure of the school. The objective is to provide students a way to achieve meaningful participation in the school setting. The relationship among academic achievement, dropout rates, and student participation is discussed and a student opinion questionnaire…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Educational Practices, Policy Formation
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