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Direct linkCarter, Alisa – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships of demographic (indicators describing student characteristics), structural (indicators describing school characteristics), student (indicators of student academic achievement), and financial (indicators of instructional expenditures) factors to student mathematics achievement. A sample (n…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Achievement, Demography
Download full textCorcoran, Sean P. – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University (NJ1), 2010
Value-added measures of teacher effectiveness are the centerpiece of a national movement to evaluate, promote, compensate, and dismiss teachers based in part on their students' test results. Federal, state, and local policy-makers have adopted these methods en masse in recent years in an attempt to objectively quantify teaching effectiveness and…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Measurement Techniques, Urban Schools
Springer, Matthew G.; Lewis, Jessica L.; Ehlert, Mark W.; Podgursky, Michael J.; Crader, Gary D.; Taylor, Lori L.; Gronberg, Timothy J.; Jansen, Dennis W.; Lopez, Omar S.; Stuit, David A. – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2010
District Awards for Teacher Excellence (D.A.T.E.) is a state-funded program in Texas that provides grants to districts for the implementation of locally-designed incentive pay plans. All districts in the state are eligible to receive grants, but participation is voluntary. D.A.T.E. incentive pay plans were first implemented in Texas districts…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Incentives, Awards
Alfaro, Moises; Jones, Don; Holland, Glenda; Mundy, Marie-Anne – Journal of Case Studies in Education, 2012
Recent national and state standards of accountability have focused on increasing student performance and achievement as well as teacher quality. Included in this challenge is the issue of teacher compensation and how it has evolved with the efforts of providing quality instruction in order to improve the performance of students. Texas has…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Incentive Grants, State Policy, Policy Analysis
Springer, Matthew G.; Lewis, Jessica L.; Ehlert, Mark W.; Podgursky, Michael J.; Crader, Gary D.; Taylor, Lori L.; Gronberg, Timothy J.; Jansen, Dennis W.; Lopez, Omar S.; Stuit, David A. – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2010
District Awards for Teacher Excellence (D.A.T.E.) is a state-funded program in Texas that provides grants to districts for the implementation of locally-designed incentive pay plans. All districts in the state are eligible to receive grants, but participation is voluntary. D.A.T.E. incentive pay plans were first implemented in Texas districts…
Descriptors: Program Design, Awards, Program Evaluation, Incentives
Springer, Matthew G.; Lewis, Jessica L.; Podgursky, Michael J.; Ehlert, Mark W.; Gronberg, Timothy J.; Hamilton, Laura S.; Jansen, Dennis W.; Stecher, Brian M.; Taylor, Lori L.; Lopez, Omar S.; Peng, Art – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2009
The Texas Educator Excellence Grant (TEEG) program was state-funded and provided annual grants to schools to design and implement performance pay plans during the 2006-07 to 2009-10 school year. TEEG was implemented each year (i.e., Cycle) in approximately 1,000 high poverty, high performing Texas public schools. Performance pay for teachers…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Design, Teacher Salaries, Achievement Gains
Peer reviewedBraun, Henry; Chapman, Lauren; Vezzu, Sailesh – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2010
This study examines trends in Black student achievement and in the Black-White achievement gap over the period 2000 to 2007, employing data from ten states drawn from the NAEP Grade 8 mathematics assessments. Results are obtained for three levels of aggregation: the state, school poverty stratum within the state, and schools within poverty…
Descriptors: African American Students, Test Results, Academic Achievement, Educational Change
Podgursky, Michael J.; Springer, Matthew G. – Grantee Submission, 2006
In this paper we examine the research literature on teacher performance pay. Evidence clearly suggests an upsurge of interest in many states and school districts, however, expanded use of merit pay has been controversial. We briefly review the history of teacher pay policy in the U.S. and earlier cycles of interest in merit or performance-based…
Descriptors: Incentives, Teacher Salaries, Educational History, Policy Analysis
Governor's Business Council (Texas), 2006
Texas has made good progress in education since the school reform movement began in earnest 15 years ago. State test scores are up for all groups of students in all grades in all subjects. On the National Assessment of Educational Progress, Texas is close to the top in student performance in math, and has finally begun to make real progress in…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, National Competency Tests
Glass, Gene V., Ed. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2000
This document consists of the 2000 edition of the "Education Policy Analysis Archives." The papers include: (1) "Teacher Quality and Student Achievement: A Review of State Policy Evidence" (Linda Darling-Hammond); (2) "America Y2K: The Obsolescence of Educational Reforms" (Sherman Dorn); (3) "Forces for Change in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Court Litigation, Educational Change
