Click to enlarge NASHVILLE — Offering middle - school
math teachers bonuses up to $ 15,000 did not produce gains in student test scores, Vanderbilt University researchers reported Tuesday in...
NASHVILLE — Offering middle - school
math teachers bonuses up to $ 15,000 did not produce gains in student test scores, Vanderbilt University researchers reported Tuesday in what they said was the first scientifically rigorous test of merit pay.
Not exact matches
It collated results from a five - year study and a two - year study of 159 middle schools in Texas and found no statistically significant improvement in scores for English,
maths, science or social studies, despite a # 3,000
bonus being offered to successful
teachers.
He promised full scholarships for top
math and science students,
bonuses for
teachers and more low - cost housing.
Our story yesterday on the Obama Administration's proposal to give large
bonuses to the best U.S. elementary and secondary school science and
math teachers got one important detail wrong: The White House doesn't have to wait for Congress to approve the $ 1 billion price tag to launch its STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) Master
Teacher Corps.
The Obama Administration wants to give a $ 20,000 salary
bonus to thousands of the best elementary and secondary school science and
math teachers in the country.
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[iv] Clotfelter et al. found that an $ 1800
bonus targeted at
math, science, and special education
teachers working in high - poverty or low - achieving secondary schools in North Carolina reduced turnover by 5 percentage points, or 17 percent.
In the program's first year, the
bonus program boost to
math scores was 3.2 points on the New York state test, or 0.08 standard deviations, in schools with small cohorts of
teachers with tested students (approximately ten or fewer such
teachers in elementary and K - 8 schools and five or fewer such
teachers in middle schools).
For example, Clotfelter et al. (2008) found that a targeted
bonus to certified
math, science and special education
teachers working in disadvantaged North Carolina schools reduced the attrition of targeted
teachers by 17 percent, while Feng and Sass (2015) found that loan forgiveness programs for
teachers with high - needs endorsements reduced the attrition of
teachers in shortage areas in Florida.
The NCPI is conducting a randomized field trial in which
teachers in the treatment group (who are all middle school
math teachers in Nashville) will receive
bonuses based on student achievement gains.
The corps would add 1,000 high - qualified
math or science
teachers, who would receive $ 5,000 end - of - year
bonuses tied to evaluations and mentoring provided by veteran
teachers.
The Nashville experiment, known as POINT (Project on Incentives in Teaching), doled out the $ 15,000
bonuses to those
teachers whose students performed «at a level that historically had been reached by only the top 5 percent of middle school
math teachers.»
The
bonuses were announced with considerable fanfare last month, with the district saying $ 1.3 million in all went to the top - rung
teachers, with the maximum of $ 12,500 going to those teaching both in high - need schools and in high - need subjects like
math and science.
Romney drafted other reforms, including the recruitment of 1,000 skilled
math and science instructors,
bonuses of as much as $ 15,000 a year for top - performing
teachers, and new intervention programs for failing schools.
Some school districts have resorted to recruiting
math teachers from overseas, while others have offered perks such as signing
bonuses, housing assistance and student loan forgiveness.
For a three - year time period beginning in 2001, North Carolina awarded an annual
bonus of $ 1800 to certified
math, science and special education
teachers working in public secondary schools with
But List found that students of
teachers who were given the
bonus upfront showed significant improvement in
math test scores.
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