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 …

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 …

that younger teachers are better able to improve the mean mathematics performance of their students. Furthermore, younger … teachers themselves performance better on subject tests than do their older counterparts. Changes in teacher education in the … late 1990s and early 2000s may explain the differences in the performance of younger teachers relative to their older …

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 …