A new study released this month in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis found that pay - for - performance programs do not
affect teacher motivation.
The article, «Incentive Pay Programs Do Not
Affect Teacher Motivation or Reported Practices: Results From Three Randomized Studies,» looked at three schools that were testing pay - for - performance programs.
Not exact matches
At the same time that she was ingesting all this psychological research about
motivation, Farrington was also studying the related sociological literature, which was concerned with how institutional structures
affect individual behavior and, specifically, how certain educational structures — like school funding mechanisms,
teacher contracts, or patterns of segregation — might incline students toward success or failure.
For instance, one of the principles outlined in the report makes clear that
teachers» expectations about their students can
affect students»
motivation and learning outcomes.
Research in the private sector has found that in order to
affect a worker's
motivation, annual bonuses need to be at least 5 to 8 percent of salary — about $ 2,000 for a typical
teacher.
In contrast, the difficulty of firing civil - service
teachers implies that they had weak extrinsic incentives and may be more sensitive to factors
affecting their intrinsic
motivation.
Further, research into effects of multimedia relating to comprehension of and
motivation toward reading have suffered due to a lack of rigor,
affected by the classroom
teacher's ambivalence toward the relative effectiveness of technology and by the fact that the
teacher is often too heavily invested in text - based forms of communications (Reinking, 2005).
The rest of the form / evaluation is thorough, and gives weight (more or less) to every factor that any parent,
teacher or administrator has ever considered, including size and motor coordination (which it finds a minor issue), behavior, social participation, both inside and outside school activities (separately counted - they think having outside activities that aren't
affected helps a lot), even attendance,
motivation, self - concept and attitude towards learning.