Site-Based Decision-Making: Its Potential for Enhancing Learned Outcomes: Issues About Change, Volume 1, Number 4

Many educators and education policymakers have embraced site-based decision-making as a means of improving educational outcomes for all students.

A concise yet thorough introduction to the topic, this paper:

• Defines site-based decision-making
• Looks at new roles developed when site-based decision-making takes place
• Explains how site-based decision-making is linked to learner outcomes
• Lists seven levels of site-based decision-making involvement
• Looks at three studies conducted at schools that used site-based decision-making
• Provides information on how to implement successful site-based decision-making

This publication is one of a series of briefing papers called Issues About Change.