Making Performance Funding Work for All - This brief provides an overview of performance funding in the states, highlighting the importance of performance funding systems that cover all students, including non-traditional students, and values their progress and success in determining institutional funding. The brief concludes with policy recommendations for WPFP state partners to ensure that performance funding works for all students. (Working Poor Families Project, June 2012) ...

Improving Measurement of Productivity in Higher Education: Panel on Measuring Higher Education Productivity: Conceptual Framework and Data Needs - The panel authoring this report was charged with the task of identifying an analytically well defined concept of productivity for higher education and recommending practical guidelines for its measurement. The objective was to construct valid productivity measures to supplement the body of information used to (1) guide resource allocation decisions at the system, state, and national levels and to assist policymakers who must assess investments in higher education against other compelling demands on scarce resources; (2) provide administrators with better tools for improving their institutions’ performance; and (3) inform individual consumers and communities to whom colleges and universities are ultimately accountable for private and public investments in higher education. (National Research Council, May 2012)...

Tying Funding to Community College Options: Models, Tools, and Recommendations for States - This brief presents a set of tools that can help states design performance-based funding systems that can influence student and institutional behavior, avoid unintended consequences, and withstand shifts in political and economic climates. (Jobs for the Future, April 2012)...