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Robinson, Norman – 1976
This study attempted to determine the actual and preferred decision-making levels of teachers and principals in schools. Subjects included approximately 30 principals and 675 teachers from elementary and secondary schools in a large suburban school district in Vancouver, British Columbia. Subjects completed a questionnaire on decision-making in…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Mercer, B. Jill – 1980
A survey of teachers in the province of Alberta was conducted to assess which variables they felt were most important in influencing their decisions to use an educational television (ETV) program with their classes for the first time. Respondents were asked to rate the six following variables as to their influence on the teacher's decision-making…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Television, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Analysis
Peer reviewedMohrman, Allan M., Jr.; And Others – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1978
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)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Satisfaction, Role Conflict
Peer reviewedLucas, Barry G.; Lusthaus, Charles S. – High School Journal, 1978
Focuses on the attitudes of elementary and secondary parents towards participation in their schools. (Author)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Attitudes
Peer reviewedHughes, Larry W.; Bratton, Martha J. – Catalyst for Change, 1978
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Decentralization, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedTalmage, Harriet; Ornstein, Allan C. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1976
Examines superintendents' attitudes toward community participation at the advisory and control levels in four areas of educational policy-making. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Control, Community Involvement, Decision Making
Peer reviewedKimpston, Richard D; Anderson, Douglas H. – Educational Leadership, 1982
A survey of 57 Minnesota school districts about participants in district curriculum decisionmaking reveals a heavy involvement by principals in both curriculum coordination and development. Teachers are less involved in coordination than in the development process. Community members are almost totally excluded, and students are excluded.…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Weiner, Debra S. – 1978
This study analyzes the process used in developing the 1977-78 operating budget of the Philadelphia school district. The purpose of the study was to determine what changes are required to assure greater efficiency and effectiveness in resource allocations in the face of increasingly scarce funds available to urban public school systems. Using a…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Budgeting, Case Studies, Decision Making
Bernal, Helen H.; And Others – 1977
An external evaluation of a subprogram of the Experimental Schools Program called the Edgewood School Plan, this study attempted to discover the extent to which educational changes can be accurately explained and forecast. A model was constructed containing the three explanatory variables of conditions, decisions, and effects and the criterion…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adoption (Ideas), Decision Making, Educational Change
Download full textBlanchard, Paul D.; Kline, Robert L. – 1977
This study examines some of the characteristics of decision-making on school boards, focusing on the behavior of southern school board members in comparison with their counterparts in other regions of the country. Data were collected in 1975 at the convention of the National School Boards Association (NSBA). Self-administered questionnaires were…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Conflict
Peer reviewedSauers, Bernard J. – Social Studies Journal, 1978
Stresses the need to combine basic reading and writing skills with meaningful social studies content. Suggests that positive feedback will motivate students to tackle more complex skills. For journal availability, see SO 506 393. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Decision Making Skills, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Palaich, Robert M.; Good, Dixie Griffin; Stout, Connie; Vickery, Emily – 2000
This report presents the results of a study of how emerging technologies can help educators deliver standards-based education to K-12 students. The first section of the report provides background on the new technology offerings and defines smart desktop systems. The second section lists critical questions for decisionmakers related to general…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education, Decision Making, Educational Technology
Klimczak, Aimee K.; And Others – 1995
This study examined how content consideration influenced the instructional strategy decisions reported by novice and experienced teachers. A total of 152 preservice and 153 in-service teachers completed an instrument dealing with well-structured and ill-structured content. The results indicated that both novice and experienced teachers would vary…
Descriptors: Course Content, Decision Making, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Lutz, Frank W.; Garnon, Frederick W., Jr. – 1978
Recently there has been a resurgence in demand for citizen participation in public school decision-making. To directly assess the degree of this phenomenon, 30 public school districts were selected from Pennsylvania (excluding Philadelphia and Pittsburgh), based on a random sample, for a citizen attitude measurement questionnaire that yielded 320…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Citizen Participation, Community Attitudes, Decentralization
Kamin, Jonathan; Erickson, Donald A. – 1981
A 1978 survey in British Columbia of 993 mostly urban parents, with children in 121 public and private schools, sought to discover the ways they chose their children's schools, the qualities they desired in those schools, and the effects on their choice of a new provincial aid program. The factors examined included social class, income,…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Nontraditional Education, Parent Attitudes
