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Miran Kang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The study compared the Outcome Measures (OM) to the traditional Graduation Rates (GR) to ascertain if OM portrayed the performance of higher education institutions differently than GR and to determine which of the two metrics aligned better with accountability policy objectives. GR refers to the percentages of first-time, full-time students who…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Higher Education, Accountability, Educational Policy
Egon J. Heidendal – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Performance funding has been a popular form of funding colleges and universities for several decades. Often the purpose is to make universities more efficient (Miao, 2012). Missouri has had two separate models of performance funding in play, a decade apart. In this research both performance funding models are examined, including a 10- year period…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Public Colleges, Educational Finance, Financial Support
Dias, Jeanette Gail Leland – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Performance funding policies are politically popular, however research on performance funding has shown that these policies are ineffective and can have unintended negative consequences, particularly for lower-resourced institutions and underserved students. The purpose of this study was to determine if the Montana University System performance…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Accountability, Bachelors Degrees, Equal Education
Carol Ann Malphrus Hudgens – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study was designed to determine whether the alignment of state and local priorities was a predictor of improving results, specifically the reduction in the percentage of inexperienced principals and percentages of low-performing schools and the increase in graduation rates. The population of this study included 115 North Carolina school…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Educational Improvement, Court Litigation, Principals
Olivares, Marianna – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2023
English language learners (ELs) often attend schools where there are (1) inequitable access to appropriately trained teachers and limited professional development opportunities, (2) inadequate instructional time, and (3) inequitable access to instructional materials and curriculum. These conditions place ELs at a considerable disadvantage.…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Resource Allocation, Human Resources, English Language Learners
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2023
The Accountability Plan is an annual report that is closely aligned with the Board of Governors' 2025 System Strategic Plan. This report enhances the System's commitment to accountability and strategic planning by fostering greater coordination between institutional administrators, University Boards of Trustees and the Board of Governors regarding…
Descriptors: Colleges, Accountability, Strategic Planning, Cooperation
Barrett J. Taylor; Brendan Cantwell – Educational Policy, 2024
Three trends have characterized state policymaking for higher education in the 21st century: divestment, accountability, and race neutrality. These policy agendas are often justified as an attempt to optimize system efficiency and performance by making institutional actors (agents) responsive to the demands of state officials (principals). In this…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, Educational Trends, Policy Formation
Karen D. Thompson; Ilana M. Umansky; W. Joshua Rew – Educational Policy, 2023
Existing analytic frameworks used to analyze and report on English learner (EL) students have important limitations that complicate the efforts of policymakers, practitioners, and researchers to fully understand this group's experiences and outcomes and respond accordingly. To address this issue, we argue that education agencies should report and…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Student Experience, Outcomes of Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Nathan Masak Abdelmalek – ProQuest LLC, 2021
As part of the national agenda of accountability, state governments established performance funding policy to hold public institutions accountable for their performance. Accountability allows state policymakers to incentivize institutions to address state demands of increasing graduation rates in return for performance allocations. Although the…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Accountability, Performance Based Assessment, Experience
Beach, Josh M. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2021
What do students learn in school? In the 21 century, this question has become a political dilemma for countries around the globe. It is a deceptively simple question, but there has never been an easy answer. The problem of measuring student learning appears to express an educational problem: What and how much do students learn? Most student…
Descriptors: Learning, Accountability, Grade Inflation, Evaluation Problems
Lilia Silverio-Minaya – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation contributes to a better understanding of performance management systems (PMS) by examining adoption, stringency, and impact of performance-based funding (PBF) in public institutions of higher education within the United States. The public sector has been under increasing pressure to be more accountable to stakeholders--that is,…
Descriptors: Public Education, Higher Education, Accountability, Educational Finance
Oregon Department of Education, 2021
High School graduation rates are key indicators of accountability for high schools and school districts in Oregon. Beginning with the 2008-09 school year, the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) implemented the cohort method of calculating graduation rates. The cohort method identifies the year the student entered high school for the first time…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, High School Graduates, Cohort Analysis, Accountability
Florida Department of Education, 2022
This technical assistance paper provides policy and guidance to individuals with test administration responsibilities in adult education programs. The Florida assessment policies and guidelines presented in this technical assessment paper are appropriate for state and federal reporting. Therefore, guidance and procedures regarding the selection…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Evaluation, Testing, Educational Policy
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2024
The Accountability Plan is an annual report that is closely aligned with the Board of Governors' 2025 System Strategic Plan. This report enhances the System's commitment to accountability and strategic planning by fostering greater coordination between institutional administrators, University Boards of Trustees and the Board of Governors regarding…
Descriptors: State Universities, Accountability, Educational Finance, Enrollment
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2024
The Accountability Plan is an annual report that is closely aligned with the Board of Governors' 2025 System Strategic Plan. This report enhances the System's commitment to accountability and strategic planning by fostering greater coordination between institutional administrators, University Boards of Trustees and the Board of Governors regarding…
Descriptors: State Universities, Accountability, Educational Finance, Enrollment