Date of Graduation
12-2015
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Education in Higher Education (EdD)
Degree Level
Graduate
Department
Rehabilitation, Human Resources and Communication Disorders
Advisor/Mentor
Michael T. Miller
Committee Member
Ketevan Mamiseishvili
Second Committee Member
Suzanne McCray
Keywords
Education, Higher education, Performance funding, Performance-based funding, State funding
Abstract
Performance-based funding has been used to help alleviate state and public calls for higher education accountability and more states have adopted this type of funding model (Tandberg & Hillman, 2014; Dougherty, Natow, & Vega, 2012). The purpose of this study was to explore performance-based funding and examine the relationship between types of funding and performance indicators in the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA). The state funding trends were examined for all of the states in the NCA. The correlations for state funding and four performance outcomes for all four-year higher education institutions were compared for three states with performance-based funding and three states with incremental funding. The study also created regression equations within each type of funding to predict full-time retention rate and four-year graduation rate. This study found statistically significant correlations between state appropriations and all four performance outcomes examined regardless of funding model utilized.
Citation
Fincher, S. (2015). An Exploration of Performance-Based Funding at Four-Year Public Colleges in the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Graduate Theses and Dissertations Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1380