Mandeville, G.K. (1994).
The South Carolina experience with incentives.
In Thomas A. Downes and William A. Testa (Eds.),
Midwest approaches to school reform.
Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago,
October 26-27, pp. 69-97.
This chapter
examines South Carolina’s educational improvement plans of the mid-1990s.
Discussion points include ways to operationalize and adjust for school
background factors. The chapter also provides a literature review of
accountability/reward studies and modeling random effects.