- What are the common teacher incentive pay program designs?
- Are the teachers’ incentive programs effective in enhancing students’ performance?
In that view, the study summarizes the four articles’ study findings as well as authors’ conclusion and then draws a conclusion on the issue based on the quantitative studies presented by the authors. Those articles include Steele, Murname and Willnett (2009) that seek to analyze the effect of incentive on teachers’ retention. In the article, a natural experiment done in California between the year 2000 and 2003 involving an incentive of $20,000 that was called the Governor’s Teaching Fellowship (GTF) is analyzed for the incentives’ effect on talented teachers’ attraction and retention in low-performing schools. In addition, Fryer (2011) is the second article presenting an analysis of teacher’s incentives’ effect on students’ success in terms of attendance, academic performance or graduation. The article utilizes a school-based random trial involving more than 200 public schools in New York.
Further, a third article under review is Figlio and Kenny (2006) article which is a documentation of students’ performance’s relationship with teachers’ performance incentives. The study utilizes United States data combining the authors’ survey that was conducted in 2000 with National Education Longitudinal Survey on students and schools in regard to teachers’ pay incentives. Finally, Nael (2011) is the fourth article which is an analysis of education incentive schemes through a review of empirical studies that evaluates educators’ performance pay programs. Thus, the article will provide a suitable review on designs of student’s achievements measures and teachers’ performance metrics.
Works cited
Figlio, N. D. & Kenny, L. “Individual Teacher’s Incentive Programs and Student’s
Performance”. NBER Working Paper 12627, October 2006. Print.
Fryer, G.R. “Teachers Incentives and Students Achievement: Evidence from New York
Neal, D. “The Design of Performance Pay In Education”. NBER Working Paper 16710,
Steele, J., Murname, R. & Willnett, J. “Do Financial Incentives Help Low Performing
Schools in Attracting and Keeping Talented Teachers? Evidence from California”. NBER Working paper 14780, March 2009. Print.
