More teachers stayed on the job and students’ scores improved modestly at Texas schools that offered performance pay, reports a study by researchers at Vanderbilt University, the University of Missouri and Rand Corp. Bigger bonuses — $3,000 and up — produced better results, “although a majority of districts chose to spread the money around to more teachers and give smaller payments,” notes the Dallas News.
The study cautioned, though, that achievement gains shown by merit pay schools were small and could have resulted in part from other initiatives at those schools. Student test scores are a primary factor in determining bonuses, a criterion that many teachers oppose.
The merit-pay plan strongly affected teacher retention: “The probability of turnover surged among teachers who did not receive a DATE award, while it fell sharply among teachers who did receive such an award,” the researchers said.
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Roger Sweeny says: December 8, 2010 at 9:43 am“The probability of turnover surged among teachers who did not receive a DATE award, while it fell sharply among teachers who did receive such an award,” the researchers said.
Which suggests to me that the major effect of the rewards was to make some of the teachers feel appreciated.
ceolaf says: December 8, 2010 at 10:00 amIs there ANY hint of causality in the data?
So, lower performing teachers are more likely to leave the profession? This is news? We need merit pay for that?
Teachers have long self-selected out of the classroom. That’s been going on forever.
Sarah Peduzzi says: December 8, 2010 at 1:48 pmWith continued budget cuts affecting school districts everywhere, how can teachers (and students) expect to perform to their fullest? I also think that a further integration of tech in the classroom will help ease the burden from teachers and engage students more actively. Continue this trend to higher education and you have a society that is better prepared for the real world.
Mike says: December 8, 2010 at 4:05 pmSarah, further integrating tech in the classroom requires far greater outlays of money than are currently available, and actually require more work on the part of teachers if the lessons are going to be done well. It won’t ease the burden on teachers at all.
Do note that I am not saying further integration of technology is necessarily a bad thing (although it’s often done poorly by administrators who think it’s a magic bullet).
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