Can Performance-Based Accountability Systems Improve Public Services?

Performance-based accountability systems — which link incentives to measured performance as a means of improving services to the public — have gained popularity. These systems can vary widely across sectors, but share three main components: goals, incentives, and measures. The RAND Issues in Focus program, "Improving Public Services" will examine how these systems are used in five sectors: child care, education, health care, public health emergency preparedness, and transportation.

Brian Stecher, acting director of RAND Education. His research focuses on measuring educational quality and improvement and evaluating education reforms, particularly assessment and accountability systems. He has directed prominent national and state evaluation projects including studies of No Child Left Behind, mathematics and science systemic reforms and class size reduction.

6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25, 2010.
Registration and a light reception will begin at 5:45 p.m.

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