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Decision Making Of Building Level Administrators And Their Perceptions On Groupthink, Julie Ann Flitcraft
Decision Making Of Building Level Administrators And Their Perceptions On Groupthink, Julie Ann Flitcraft
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This research study examined how groupthink affects educational decision making for building level administrators by identifying the most prominent symptoms of groupthink and by exposing the characteristics that create an increase of vulnerability to groupthink.
Participants for this study included building level administrators of 25 public high schools in a Midwest suburban county. These volunteers completed a three part survey which addressed the central research questions for the study:
1) What perceptions do current building level administrators have about the shared system of belief within their institution?
2) Among the administrators that believe they were hired because they share the …