Decision Making Involvement among Graduate School Students in One State College A Link for Educational Leadership

Decision making is a process of making a choice from a number of alternatives to achieve a desired result. This study was conducted to assess the extent of decision-making involvement among graduate school students in one state college as implications for educational leadership. The study respondents were the 115 graduate school students and were chosen through stratified random sampling. Findings revealed that most of the graduate school students have high extent of decision-making involvement in terms of instructional programme and school human resources while moderate extent in terms of infrastructural facilities. At the same time results showed that there is no significant difference on the extent of graduate students’ involvement in decision making in terms of instructional programme, school human resources and infrastructural facilities when grouped according to their profile variables. Educational leaders should promote forms of participation in decision making that increase graduate students’ actual involvement in decisions concerning their duties and opportunities for development and also provide for more sharing on issues concerning the school management, particularly educational

leadership.

Keywords: Decision making, educational leadership, graduate students