represents a considerable change in the school management system. After 2000, all teachers were subject to annual goal setting … performance reviews. Experienced teachers were offered an extended pay scale based on performance instead of seniority, and to … gain access to the new upper pay scale, teachers had to go through a ‘threshold assessment’ based on their professional …

and head teachers with Department for Education and Skills school performance data to consider the operation and impact of … the new system in England since 2000. We find that teachers’ response to the new system closely resembles that of other … groups of public service workers to similar schemes. In particular, teachers appear not to be greatly motivated by the …

explore the case of the introduction of these systems for classroom teachers in England and Wales as a means of testing this … idea. Our survey evidence shows that classroom teachers experiencing the introduction of PRP have expressed a strong demand … for such services from the teachers’ unions. Further, analysis of the PRP implementation process for classroom teachers …