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Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence from the Project on Incentives in Teaching

Authors:
M.G. Springer, D. Ballou, L. Hamilton, V. Le, J.R. Lockwood, D. McCaffrey, M. Pepper, B. Stecher
Published in:
National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University
Published:
September 2010
Type:
Report
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Abstract

The Project on Incentives in Teaching (POINT) was a three-year study conducted in the Metro-Nashville Public Schools from 2006-07 through 2008-09. Middle school mathematics teachers voluntarily participated in a controlled experiment to assess the effect of offering financial rewards to teachers whose students showed unusual gains on standardized tests. This report contains a description of the project and a summary of the principal effects of the incentives on student achievement.
Posted to Site:
09/29/2010