In this paper the author claims that a mature expert information system within educational management must incorporate the contributions of management science completely within the information system and transparent to the user/manager. Only by such a complete incorporation can the manager have the benefit of sophisticated underlying mathematical models in the analysis of data without first having to become well-schooled in the mathematics or fully aware of the questions that need to be asked.

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... he marriage between management science and expert systems can thus allow the manager to concentrate on the problems of pedagogy, knowing that the information system will "automatically" provide the information he/she needs to make good decisions.