FrontMatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Summary -- 1 The Importance of Measuring Productivity in Higher Education -- 2 Defining Productivity for Higher Education -- 3 Why Measurement of Higher Education Productivity Is Difficult -- 4 Advancing the Conceptual Framework -- 5 Recommendations for Creating and Extending the Measurement Framework -- 6 Implementation and Data Recommendations -- References and Bibliography -- Appendix A: Commonly Used Performance Metrics for Higher Education -- Appendix B: Methods for Measuring Comparative Quality and Cost Developed by the National Center for Academic Transformation -- Appendix C: Overview of Data Sources -- Appendix D: Estimating Project-Related Departmental Research -- Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members -- Committee on National Statistics -- Board on Testing and Assessment.