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Davis, Stephen H. – Journal of School Leadership, 2004
This article takes a critical look at administrative decision making in schools and the extent to which complex decisions conform to normative models and common expectations of rationality. An alternative framework for administrative decision making is presented that is informed, but not driven, by theories of rationality. The framework assumes…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Decision Making, Principals, Intuition

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