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Jones, Dennis P. – National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, 2016
This is the third paper on the topic of outcomes-based funding written by Dennis Jones for Complete College America. The first paper, "Performance Funding: From Idea to Action" (ED535356), proposed a set of design and implementation principles to help states develop and implement their own outcomes-based funding models. The second paper,…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Funding Formulas, Program Effectiveness, Models
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Boucouvalas, Marcie, Ed. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2013
The Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) provides a forum for the discussion of international issues related to adult education in general, as well as adult education in various countries around the globe. The following purposes summarize the work of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Students, Barriers
LaFee, Scott – School Administrator, 1999
Top school administrators and school boards across the country are increasingly employing a private-sector incentive: bonus pay for improved (school) performance. Connecticut, Texas, and North Carolina have merit-pay clauses in superintendents' contracts. This article discusses pay-for-performance criteria, increased job expectations, and ethical…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Ethics, Incentives, Merit Pay
Graves, Bill – School Administrator, 1995
Philadelphia's new superintendent will lose $8,000 a year if student achievement does not improve. An Ohio superintendent has promised to resign if student proficiency does not climb by 10% (see Roger Barnes' sidebar). Contract specialists predict that administrators will see increasing efforts to tie salaries to results as budgets tighten,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Newsom, Ron; Foxworth, Linda – 1980
A study was conducted which focused on specific teaching strategies and their impact on shifting externalized students toward internality (change of locus of control), on completion rate, and on increase in knowledge of math over a three-month period. Eight adult education classes with ninety-two students from the north Texas area participated in…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Educational Research