Administrators Solving the Problems of Practice‎:‎ Decision‎-Making Concepts‎,‎ Cases and Consequences‎,‎ 3/e Wayne K‎.‎ Hoy‎,‎ Ohio State University C‎.‎ John Tarter‎,‎ University of Alabama ISBN‎-10‎:‎ 0205508014 Tested in hundreds of classrooms‎,‎ this text with cases‎,‎ is a student favorite that brings eight classical models of decision making to life‎,‎ creating useful tools in developing strategies to solve real‎-life problems‎.‎ New to this edition‎:‎ • A contingency model of decision making is developed to guide readers to appropriately match decision strategies with the specific problem at hand ‎(‎Ch‎.‎ 5‎)‎‎.‎ • Nine common traps of decision making are revealed and suggestions for avoiding and escaping from these traps are offered ‎(‎Ch 2‎)‎‎.‎ •Two dozen new studies on decision‎-making strategies are added to the analyses throughout the text‎.‎ •New‎,‎ contemporary cases throughout the text provide readers with the opportunity to learn from and deal with the most current issues in schools‎,‎ such as violence‎,‎ curriculum issues‎,‎ participative management‎,‎ sexual harassment‎,‎ and accountability‎.‎ Here’s what you colleagues are saying about this edition‎:‎ “This book helps me to locate my course just where I most like to teach‎:‎ at the intersection between theory and practice” ‎-Megan Tschannen‎-Moran‎,‎ College of William and Mary “The cases in [this] text are well‎-organized‎,‎ sequential and timely‎.‎ To that end‎,‎ they relate to the veteran administrator as well as the novice practitioner‎.‎” ‎-Page Smith‎,‎ University of Texas at San Antonio‎.‎