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Teacher Performance Incentives and Student Outcomes
Eberts, Randall W.; Hollenbeck, Kevin; Stone, Joe A. - 2002
many merit pay systems have been established in school districts across the U.S., very little empirical evidence concerning … their influence on student achievement exists. A natural experiment arose in a county in which one high school piloted a … merit pay system that rewarded student retention and student evaluations of teachers while another comparable high school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014122753
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Individual teacher incentives and student performance
Figlio, David N.; Kenny, Lawrence W. - In: Journal of public economics 91 (2007) 5/6, pp. 901-914
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003441296
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Individual teacher incentives and student performance
Figlio, David N.; Kenny, Lawrence W. - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003388376
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Career changers in teaching jobs : a case study based on the Swiss vocational education system
Hof, Stefanie; Strupler, Mirjam; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2011
This study investigates the determinants and motives of professionals who change career to vocational teaching. The framework for this study is the Swiss vocational education system, which requires that teachers of vocational subjects must have a prior career in that specific field. Thus, to...
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Aligning student, parent, and teacher incentives : evidence from Houston public schools
Fryer, Roland G. <Jr.> - 2012
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How effective are financial incentives for teachers? : linking teacher pay to student performance has become popular, but evidence on its effectiveness is mixed
Imberman, Scott A. - 2015
portion of pay on student outcomes. In the US, the number of school districts adopting such performancebased financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431719
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Gender Differences in Market Competitiveness in a Real Workplace : Evidence from Performance-Based Pay Tournaments Among Teachers
Lavy, Victor - 2010
Recent lab and field experiments suggest that women are less effective than men in a competitive environment. In this paper I examine how individual performance in a real work place is affected by a competitive environment and by its gender mix. The competition is among math, English and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758388
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Individual Teacher Incentives and Student Performance
Figlio, David N. - 2010
This paper is the first to systematically document the relationship between individual teacher performance incentives and student achievement using United States data. We combine data from the National Education Longitudinal Survey on schools, students, and their families with our own survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760604
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Gender differences in market competitiveness in a real workplace : evidence from performance-based pay tournaments among teachers
Lavy, Victor - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 123 (2013) 569, pp. 540-573
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