Performance Incentives

Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

The concept of pay for performance for public school teachers is growing in popularity and use, and it has resurged to once again occupy a central role in education policy. Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education offers the most up-to-date and complete analysis of this promisingyet still controversialpolicy innovation.Performance Incentives brings together an interdisciplinary team of experts, providing an unprecedented discussion and analysis of the pay-for-performance debate by Identifying the potential strengths and weaknesses of tying pay to student outcomes; Comparing different strategies for measuring teacher accomplishments; Addressing key conceptual and implemen - tation issues; Describing what teachers themselves think of merit pay; Examining recent examples in Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, and Texas; Studying the overall impact on student achievement.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-09-16
Mått:152 x 228 x 23 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:346
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780815780793

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Utbildningsstrategier och utbildningspolitik inom Psykologi och pedagogik

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"Matthew G. Springer is the director of the National Center on Performance Incentives and an assistant professor of public policy at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College. He is a coauthor of Modern Education Finance and Policy (2007) and a coeditor of Charter School Outcomes (2007) and Handbook of Research on School Choice (2009)."

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"This volume brings together a collection of insightful essays on a variety of issuesassociated with performance-related pay policies in education. Together, the essaysnot only provide invaluable background information, but also explore in a detailedyet accessible way some of the technical issues associated with the developmentand use of teacher performance metrics. This volume will be an excellent resourcefor policymakers, researchers, and educators alike." —Brian Jacob, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, University of Michigan|"Teacher compensation needs reforming, including linking part of pay to teachereffectiveness in the classroom. Yet knowledge about how best to do so is stillemerging. This volume makes a major contribution to the discussion of how tolink teacher pay and performance in a responsible and effective way." —Janet S. Hansen, Vice President and Director of Education Studies, Committee forEconomic Development|"As American school districts move increasingly towards adopting non-traditionalpay systems, the need for research regarding performance pay in education isgreater than ever before. This book stands virtually alone as a compilation of seriousknowledge and new insights about performance incentives. The authors havemade a huge intellectual contribution to our understanding of how a new pay paradigmmight actually operate." —James W. Guthrie, Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Education Leadership andPolicy, Vanderbilt University|" Performance Incentives offers a comprehensive look at a timely and still controversialtopic. The book approaches the subject of new forms of teacher compensationfrom multiple angles and thus affords the reader a variety of perspectives to consider.Matthew Springer has assembled a unique set of papers that is bound tospark lively discussion. More importantly, this volume may also help to shape thepolicy debate around teacher pay." —Julia E. Koppich, J. Koppich & Associates