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Rothstein, Richard – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2008
Accountability and performance incentive plans in education are compromised by goal distortion, gaming, and corruption. Education policy makers who design such plans have paid insufficient attention to similar experiences in other fields. This paper describes institutions in health care, job training and welfare administration, and in the private…
Descriptors: Accountability, Public Sector, Job Performance, Incentives
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Gouran, Dennis S.; Bradley, Patricia Hayes – 1979
After 24 triads of college students discussed hypothetical situations of serious and moderately serious acts of plagiarism by either high or low status individuals, they designated a punishment. The hypothesis was that the severity of the sanction would be a joint function of the severity of the act, the attribution of responsibility for the act,…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Problems, Cheating, College Students