Administrators of educational organizations make some decisions and preside over the making of others with the efficacy of their decisions subject to a posteriori discussion and debate. The field has not developed educational decision theories much beyond experience-based models that prescribe how educational decisions should be made. This article considers a nontraditional decision theory with its base in psychology.
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