ERIC Number: ED510503
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Jan
Pages: 25
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
The Effect of Performance-Pay in Little Rock, Arkansas on Student Achievement. Working Paper 2008-02
Winters, Marcus; Greene, Jay P.; Ritter, Gary; Marsh, Ryan
National Center on Performance Incentives
This paper examines evidence from a performance-pay program implemented in five Little Rock, Arkansas elementary schools between 2004 and 2007. Using a differences-in-differences approach, the evidence shows that students whose teachers were eligible for performance pay made substantially larger test score gains in math, reading, and language than students taught by untreated teachers. Further, these is a negative relationship between the average performance of a teacher's students the year before treatment began and the additional gains made after treatment. That is, performance-pay in Little Rock appears to have improved student achievement and to have done so more for students of teachers who were previously less effective at producing learning gains. (Contains 5 tables and 4 footnotes.) [This working paper was prepared for "Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education" in Nashville, Tennessee on February 28, 2008.]
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Academic Achievement, Scores, Teacher Salaries, Merit Pay, Incentives, Student Improvement, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement, Language Skills, Predictor Variables
National Center on Performance Incentives. Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, PMB #43, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, TN 37203. Tel: 615-322-5538; Fax: 615-322-6018; e-mail: ncpi@vanderbilt.edu; Web site: http://www.performanceincentives.org
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: Elementary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Vanderbilt University, National Center on Performance Incentives
Identifiers - Location: Arkansas
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Iowa Tests of Basic Skills
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305A060034
What Works Clearinghouse Reviewed: Does Not Meet Evidence Standards
WWC Study Page: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/Study/67250