Performance pay and the teachers' effort, productivity and grading ethics.

Autor/in	Lavy, Victor
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Performance pay and the teachers' effort, productivity and grading ethics. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Leistungsabhängige Bezahlung und Arbeitsaufwand von Lehrern, Arbeitsproduktivität und Bewertungsethik.
Quelle	Cambridge (2004), 35 S.Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper. 10622
Beigaben	Anhang
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Leistungssteigerung; Sekundarbereich; Lehrer; Schüler; Leistungsbeurteilung; Schulleistung; Anreizsystem; Einkommenshöhe; Leistungslohn; Arbeitsleistung; Arbeitsproduktivität; Arbeitspapier; Auswirkung; Leistungsanreiz; Israel
Abstract	"Performance-related incentive pay for teachers is being introduced in many countries, but there is little evidence of its effects. This paper evaluates a rank-order tournament among teachers of English, Hebrew, and mathematics in Israel. Teachers were rewarded with cash bonuses for improving their students' performance on high-school matriculation exams. Two identification strategies were used to estimate the program effects, a regression discontinuity design and propensity score matching. The regression discontinuity method exploits both a natural experiment stemming from measurement error in the assignment variable and a sharp discontinuity in the assignment-to-treatment variable. The results suggest that performance incentives have a significant effect on directly affected students with some minor spillover effects on untreated subjects. The improvements appear to derive from changes in teaching methods, after-school teaching, and increased responsiveness to students' needs. No evidence found for teachers' manipulation of test scores. The program appears to have been more cost-effective than school-group cash bonuses or extra instruction time and is as effective as cash bonuses for students." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: Experiment; empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Befragung. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1999 bis 2001. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2006/2