Our Focus

The National Center on Performance Incentives (NCPI) is committed to independent and scientific research to evaluate the impact of pay-for-performance in public education. NCPI endeavors to develop a base of scholarly and practical knowledge for education policymakers and practitioners. Our research focuses on the following five impact areas:

The signature research initiative of the National Center on Performance Incentives is a randomized field trial in Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS). It is the first randomized experiment in the nation to evaluate the effect of pay-for-performance in public education.

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The city of Nashville understands the importance of education and
the value of innovative resea-rch. Having the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt means that the lessons learned here in our city are ones that will provide crucial information to educators and policymakers across our country." Bill Purcell
Mayor, Nashville