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Shared Decision Making (SDM)

The proposed research investigates teachers' and building administrators' perceptions of involvement in shared-decision-making (SDM) for selected middle schools in Area F of the Detroit Public School System, and the extent to which these perceptions vary as a function of differences in professional experience and personality. So that the study may be placed in context, this section of the proposal presents a review of the pertinent literature.

The review begins with a brief discussion of SDM and its place in the educational reform process which is followed by an in-depth look at Public Act 25 and its relation to SDM in Michigan schools. This first section of the review is then followed by an examination of literature related to: a) the role of the building administrator in the SDM process; and b) the role of the teacher in the SDM process.

It is no secret that over the last several years, the American system of public education has been confronted with staggering problems and challenges including those of school violence, increasing numbers of under-nourished and poor students, and the steady decline of student scores on national achievement tests (Papalia & Olds, 1992). According to Ornstein and Hunkins (1993), a wealth of empirical findings have shown that not only must reform be undertaken to meet these challenges and deal with these problems, but also that:

Much of what needs to be done to reform schools needs to be done at the local level; that is where the problems must be resolved, although the problems are large and multidimensional...(p. 169)

Ornstein and Hunkins (1993) go on to note that in the last six years, several local level reforms have been implemented by way of meeting the problems and challenges confronting American public schools. These reforms include: adaptive problem solving, adaptation of a school-level focus, focusing on the implementability of changes, innovations in principal leadership a...

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