School financial management: Insights for decision making in public primary schools

Strategic financial decision making in comprehensive public universities

Experimental results and theoretical analysis confirms that financial strategic decisions due to the effect of the policy and organizational behavior is very important. The aim of this paper was to study financial strategic making decision and decision-making processes at University of Tehran. Data was collected through qualitative research methods. The population of the study was all the exper...

Using Research to Support Management Decision Making in Schools

The gap between the researcher’s world and the practitioner’s world has long been recognised: research literature is generally not part of a practitioner’s library (Huberman, 1990). One of the effects of this is that actions by decision-makers and practitioners are unlikely to be informed by research, and dissemination of research information and knowledge is problematic (Hillage et al., 1998)....

Role Taking Under Financial Risk Decision Making

This paper explores people’s behavior when they are facing financial risks. Through the setting of an economics experiment, people’s willingness to bear financial risks and their tendency to impose risks on others are investigated. The experiment result shows that most people are risk-neutral or risk-averse when making decision under financial environment, and their tendency to impose risks on ...

Policy Applications of Behavioral Insights to Household Financial Decision-Making Behavioral Science and Policy Symposium Financial Decision-Making Working Group

Data for School Improvement: Factors for Designing Effective Information Systems to Support Decision-making in Schools

National legislation that increased the role of accountability testing has created pressure to use testing data, along with other data, for instructional decision-making. Connected to this push for data-driven decisionmaking, is the increased interest in data delivery systems or Management Information Systems (MIS) in education. But, before administrators rush to build data and information syst...