About NCPI


Overview

Established in 2006 through a $10 million, five-year research and development grant from the United States Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences, NCPI conducts independent and scientific studies on the individual and institutional effects of performance incentives in education. NCPI, a state and local policy research and development center, is part of the Peabody Center for Education Policy and housed in the Learning Sciences Institute on the campus of Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College, one of the nation’s top five schools of education.

NCPI joins the National Research and Development Center on School Choice at Peabody College, making Peabody the only institution in the nation to house two national research and development centers funded by the Institute of Education Sciences.

Welcome to the National Center on Performance Incentives
This center will give us hard data that we can use to finally understand the
relationship between perform- ance and incentives and will give policymakers real input on how best to invest resources to improve student learning and success." Dean Camilla Benbow,
Patricia and Rhodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development at Peabody College