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

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Authors: Elvis Arterbury, Shirley M. Hord

Product ID: CHA-10 Price: Available free online
• Published: 1991    • 8 pages   

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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.