Looking Inside the Black Box of Performance Funding for Higher Education: Policy Instruments, Organizational Obstacles, and Intended and Unintended Impacts

Looking Inside the Black Box of Performance Funding for Higher Education: Policy Instruments, Organizational Obstacles, and Intended and Unintended Impacts

For several decades, policymakers have been concerned about increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of postsecondary institutions. In recent years, performance funding—which directly connects state funding to an institution's performance on indicators such as student persistence, credit acc...

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Main Authors: Kevin J. Dougherty, Sosanya M. Jones, Hana Lahr, Rebecca S. Natow, Lara Pheatt, Vikash Reddy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russell Sage Foundation 2016-04-01
Series:RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
Subjects:
performance funding
performance-based funding
outcomes-based funding
higher education accountability
educational accountability
public accountability
performance management
performance-based management
quality assurance
higher education policy
college quality
Online Access:http://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.1.07

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