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Performance Pay: Program Design and Evaluation

Performance Pay: Program Design and Evaluation. Daniel Humphrey SRI International March 30-31, 2009. Performance Pay and Incentives. Systematic efforts to compensate educators for their performance or the performance of their students.

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Performance Pay: Program Design and Evaluation

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  1. Performance Pay: Program Design and Evaluation Daniel Humphrey SRI International March 30-31, 2009

  2. Performance Pay and Incentives • Systematic efforts to compensate educators for their performance or the performance of their students. • Monetary incentives to recruit and retain effective teachers in hard-to-staff subjects and schools. • Educator compensation initiatives underway in nearly two-thirds of the states. • Near the top of the Obama administration’s education agenda.

  3. Teacher Incentive Fund • $200M Grant Program begun in 2006. • Incentives for both teachers and principals. • 34 grantees, local and national evaluations. • $200M additional funds in the Stimulus Package. • Part of the Race to the Top investments?

  4. Teacher Performance Pay Does it work?

  5. Theory of Action

  6. Strategies • Incentives to raise student achievement. • Attract qualified applicants to hard-to-staff schools and subjects. • Incentives to improve skills and knowledge.

  7. Characteristics • Targets: • Individuals • Whole school • Combination • Size of Rewards

  8. System Supports • Careful planning and participant buy-in. • Stability of long-term funding. • Clear communication about incentives, criteria, path to reward. • Robust and transparent data system. • Alignment with policies.

  9. North Carolina Example • 2001 to 2004 incentive program for recruitment and retention. • $1,800 annual bonuses for hard-to staff subjects in high needs schools. • No disincentive for success.

  10. Houston Example • Various versions of performance pay since the 1970s. • Latest version gives both campus and individual rewards. • Mechanisms to reward core teachers in grade not tested. • Uses value-added measures to reward improvement.

  11. Checklist • Planning • Buy-in • Communicating the intricacies • Data systems • Stability and sustainability • Multiple strategies, multiple measures • Targets and untested subjects and grades • Size of the awards • Evaluation

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