February 2014 | Performance Funding: Impacts, Obstacles, and Unintended Outcomes: Community College Research Center – Teachers College, Columbia University

This brief summarizes findings from extensive reviews of the literature on performance funding nationwide. The brief describes the difference between performance funding 1.0 and 2.0, the research evidence on the impacts of performance funding 1.0, and the obstacles and unintended outcomes that performance funding may encounter. It then offers suggestions for addressing those obstacles and avoiding unintended outcomes.