Publisher's Synopsis
After first appearing in 1979 in Tennessee, performance fundingfor higher education went on to be adopted by another 26 states.This monograph reviews research on a multitude of states to addressthese questions:
What impacts does performance funding have oninstitutional practices and, ultimately, student outcomes?
What obstacles and unintended effects do performancefunding encounter?
This monograph finds considerable impacts on institutionalpractices, weak impacts on student outcomes, substantial obstacles,and sizable unintended impacts. Given this, the monograph closeswith a discussion of the implications for future research and forpublic policymaking on performance funding.
This is the 2nd issue of the 39th volume of the Jossey-Bassseries ASHE Higher Education Report. Each monograph is thedefinitive analysis of a tough higher education issue, based onthorough research of pertinent literature and institutionalexperiences. Topics are identified by a national survey. Notedpractitioners and scholars are then commissioned to write thereports, with experts providing critical reviews of each manuscriptbefore publication.
