Reporting Higher Education Res (Paperback)

AUTHORS’ NOTES (Joseph C. Burke, Henrik P Minassians).

1. The New Accountability: From Regulation to Results: In this chapter we trace the rise of the "new accountability" and describe the policy responses of outcomes assessment, performance funding and budgeting, and performance reporting.

2. Performance Reports: Coverage and Customers, Purposes and Priorities: We examine the coverage, content, and customers of the performance reports, along with their purposes, priorities, initiation methods, and the emerging changes in their style and substance.

3. Reporting Indicators: What Do They Indicate?: The performance types, concerns, policy values, and models of excellence implied in the reporting indicators are identified, and the use of performance measures by two- and four-year campuses are compared.

Appendix to Chapter 3. Reporting Indicators with Indicator Types, Concerns, Values, and Models.

4. Policymakers’ Reactions to Performance Reporting: We summarize the results of an opinion survey of governors’ aides, legislative chairs of education committees, higher education finance officers, and campus institutional researchers on the use, effects, and future of performance reporting.

Appendix to Chapter 4. Survey Population and Respondents.

5. Indicator Preferences: Acceptability Trumps Accountability: In this chapter, state and campus policymakers’ views are given on the importance and appropriateness of the most common indicators used in state and campus performance reports.

6. Measuring Down and Up: The Missing Link: We compare the results from the National Center for Public Policy in Higher Education’s state report cards and the state performance reports and note that the states with performance reports received no better grades than those without them.

7. Performance Reporting: Promises, Problems, and Prospects: In this concluding chapter, we review the prospects, problems, and possibilities of performance reporting and discuss two fundamental flaws in performance reporting.

Appendix.

References.

Index.