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Precursors of Performance Funding
β Scribed by Andreea M. Serban
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Weight
- 39 KB
- Volume
- 1998
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-0579
- DOI
- 10.1002/ir.9702
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β¦ Synopsis
The quest for accountability and improvement is not a new phenomenon in public higher education policy. Reforms such as program budgeting, planning-programming-budgeting systems, zerobase budgeting, and incentive funding, on one hand, and outcomes assessment and performance reporting, on the other hand, contributed to the emergence of performance funding.
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