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Performance Funding for Higher Education : AEHE, Volume 39, Number 3.

After first appearing in 1979 in Tennessee, performance funding for higher education went on to be adopted by another 26 states. This monograph reviews research on a multitude of states to address these questions: What impacts does performance funding have on institutional practices and, ultimately,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dougherty, Kevin J.
Otros Autores: Reddy, Vikash
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Wiley, 2013.
Colección:J-B ASHE Higher Education Report Series (AEHE)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Performance Funding for Higher Education: What Are the Mechanisms? What Are the Impacts?; Copyright; Contents; Executive Summary; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Performance Funding: Nature and Forms; Performance Funding versus Performance Budgeting and Reporting; Performance Funding 1.0 and 2.0; Types of Performance Indicators: Ultimate and Intermediate Student Outcomes; Conceptual Framework and Research Methods; Conceptualizing the Impacts of Performance Funding; Data Search; Data Analysis; Limitations; Description of State Performance Funding Programs.
  • Which States Have Had Performance Funding Programs?Florida's Two Performance Funding Programs; Performance-Based Budgeting: 1994-2008; Workforce Development Education Fund: 1997-2002; Missouri's Funding for Results Program; North Carolina's Program for Community Colleges; Ohio's Old and New Performance Funding Programs; The Success Challenge and Performance Challenge: 1995-2009; New Funding Formula: 2009-Present; Pennsylvania's PF 2.0 Program; South Carolina's Early PF 2.0 Program; Tennessee's Old and New Performance Funding Programs; Performance Funding: 1979-Present.
  • Complete College Tennessee Program: 2010-PresentWashington's Two Programs: One Abandoned, One Added Later; First PF Program: 1997-1999; The Student Achievement Initiative: 2007-Present; Policy Instruments and Their Immediate Institutional Impacts; Changing Funding Incentives; Increasing Awareness of State Priorities; Increasing Awareness of Institution's Own Performance; Increasing Status Competition among Institutions; Building Capacity for Organizational Learning; Intermediate Institutional Impacts; Alterations to Academic Policies, Programs, and Practices.
  • Alterations to Spending on InstructionAlterations to Academic Department Structure and Staffing; Alterations to Curricula and Graduation Requirements; Alterations to Course Content and Instructional Delivery; Changes in Developmental Education and Tutoring; Alterations to Student Service Policies, Programs, and Practices; Intended Student Outcomes; Graduation Numbers and Rates; Retention Rates; Remedial Education Completion Rates; Obstacles to the Effectiveness of Performance Funding; Inappropriate Performance Funding Measures; Learning Gains; Retention and Graduation Rates.
  • Job Placement RatesInstitutional Differences; Instability in Performance Funding Levels, Indicators, and Measures; The Brief Duration of Many PF Programs; Inadequate State Funding of Performance Funding; Shortfalls in Regular State Funding; Uneven Knowledge about Performance Funding Within Colleges; Inequality of Institutional Capacity; Institutional Resistance to and Gaming of the System; Setting Low Goals; Deceptive Compliance; Unintended Impacts of Performance Funding; Costs of Compliance; Narrowing of Institutional Missions; Grade Inflation and Weakening of Academic Standards.