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Blaschke, Charles – Nation's Schools, 1972
Discusses ways to avoid problems when developing and planning performance contracts. (JF)
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Experiments, Educational Finance, Performance Contracts
Download full textBlaschke, Charles L. – 1973
This speech discusses the planning for and the implementation of the O.E.O. performance contracting experiments. The author argues that it was not performance contracting, but the O.E.O. experiment which failed. The author blames this failure not so much on the poor evaluation design, but rather on the number of interface problems which arose…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Evaluation Methods, Incentives, Performance Contracts
Glennan, Thomas K. – Compact, 1971
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Educational Vouchers, Experimental Programs, Federal Aid
Mecklenburger, James A.; Goldenbaum, Donald M. – Nation's Schools, 1972
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Experiments, Educational Finance, Performance Contracts
Heddinger, Fred M. – Compact, 1971
Warns that the leverage made possible through widespread use of vouchers and performance contracting can make education a less certain product that will have exercised its influence beyond the point of recall for a generation of students. (JF)
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Educational Vouchers, Experimental Programs, Performance Contracts
Peer reviewedSpaght, Samuel – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1971
A preliminary report on performance contracting in the Wichita school district. (RY)
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Educational Experiments, Educational Innovation
Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, DC. Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation. – 1972
This report describes the methodology and results of the "incentives only" experiments at Mesa, Arizona and at Stockton, California. The incentives only experiment -- one facet of the performance contracting experiment -- involved contracting to provide incentives to teachers and students, rather than contracting with particular private technology…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Educational Experiments, Incentives, Mathematics Education
Miller, John K. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1973
A post-mortem on the Office of Economic Opportunity's version of performance contracting and its efficacy as a change agent in education. (Author/JN)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Experiments, Performance Contracts, Research
Jones, Philip G. – American School Board Journal, 1973
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Experiments, Educational Technology, Evaluation
Page, Ellis B. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1972
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Educational Psychology, Educational Theories, Learning Processes
Megel, Carl J.; Bhaerman, Robert D. – Compact, 1971
Discusses teacher associations' objections to education voucher systems and performance contracts. (JF)
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Educational Vouchers, Experimental Programs, Performance Contracts
Mecklenburger, James – 1972
This report attempts to cut through the rhetoric of both the opponents and the proponents of performance contracting and to bring the main issues into focus. The report (1) describes different kinds of contracts; (2) discusses testing problems; (3) gives a description of the Texarkana and Banneker elementary school projects; (4) provides sample…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Educational Experiments, Evaluation Methods, Incentives
Berger, Allen – Elements: Translating Theory Into Practice, 1972
Author gives some historical precedents for performance contracting and educational accountability, both having been tried 100 years ago. (MB)
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Responsibility, Educational Experiments, Educational History
Martin, Reed – American School Board Journal, 1972
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Boards of Education, Educational Administration, Educational Experiments
Peer reviewedBarlow, R. M. – Journal of Higher Education, 1974
Describes an experiment in which the learning contract method was used in a philosophical ethics course and assesses the learning contract method as compared to the discussion method. (Author/PG)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Contracts, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Experiments
