Improving the educational decision-making system from the viewpoint of members of education faculties settled in Tehran and staff managers and specialists in the Ministry of Education

In this research educational decision-making system was studied based on five (internal and external) factors including: environment of decision-making (supra-systems), structure of decision–making, process of decision-making, implementing of decision–making, and evaluation and feedback of decision–making. Data was gathered by questionnaire from two groups, members of the Faculties of Education settled in Tehran and staff managers and specialists of the Ministry of Education. Findings show that the educational decision–making system has many imperfections with structural factors being the most important and implementation factors the least of them. Furthermore, the study samples emphasize decentralization of educational decision–making system.