Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence from the Project on Incentives in Teaching. [Executive Summary]

The Project on Incentives in Teaching (POINT) was a three-year study conducted in the Metropolitan Nashville School System from 2006-07 through 2008-09, in which middle school mathematics teachers voluntarily participated in a controlled experiment to assess the effect of financial rewards for teach...

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Published inNational Center on Performance Incentives
Main Authors Springer, Matthew G, Hamilton, Laura, McCaffrey, Daniel F, Ballou, Dale, Le, Vi-Nhuan, Pepper, Matthew, Lockwood, J. R, Stecher, Brian M
Format Report
LanguageEnglish
Published National Center on Performance Incentives 2013
Subjects
Academic Achievement
Control Groups
Educational Change
Evidence
Experimental Groups
Experiments
Grade 5
Incentives
Mathematics
Mathematics Teachers
Middle Schools
Scores
Standardized Tests
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Summary:The Project on Incentives in Teaching (POINT) was a three-year study conducted in the Metropolitan Nashville School System from 2006-07 through 2008-09, in which middle school mathematics teachers voluntarily participated in a controlled experiment to assess the effect of financial rewards for teachers whose students showed unusually large gains on standardized tests. The experiment was intended to test the notion that rewarding teachers for improved scores would cause scores to rise. It was up to participating teachers to decide what, if anything, they needed to do to raise student performance: participate in more professional development, seek coaching, collaborate with other teachers, or simply reflect on their practices. Thus, POINT was focused on the notion that a significant problem in American education is the absence of appropriate incentives, and that correcting the incentive structure would, in and of itself, constitute an effective intervention that improved student outcomes. This executive summary presents the findings from the Project on Incentives in Teaching. [For the full report, "Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence from the Project on Incentives in Teaching," see ED513347.]