Download or read book An Investigation Into Teacher Motivation and the Role of Merit Pay written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to investigate teacher motivation and the effect merit pay has on teachers' motivation within public school districts in Michigan. This study addressed three research questions; (a) what keeps teachers active and engaged; what motivates teachers, (b) what motivates a person to become a teacher, and (c) what effect does merit pay have on teacher motivation? This study was a cross-sectional survey design, in which data were collected at one point in time to represent current attitudes of teachers about motivation and merit pay. The electronic survey of nine demographic questions and 64 motivation or merit pay questions was disseminated to K-12 teachers from rural, urban, and suburban school districts around Michigan, netting a sample of 887 teacher participants. Multivariate regression analysis was conducted to identify relationships between teacher demographics, school characteristics, and motivational or merit pay factors. The results of the study demonstrated that instructional support, parental support, and administrative support were positively associated with teacher motivation. Second, care for children, care for student learning, and wanting to make a difference were the highest motivating factors of all items in the survey. Third, when differentiating teachers' positive and negative views of merit pay nearly 75% of the participants demonstrated negative views of merit pay. Fourth, goal-setting, a central principle in motivation theory, and setting difficult-challenging goals each year were identified as two of the highest motivating factors in this study. The results of this study may provide school districts and policy-makers with useful information on several topics like whether or not teachers are motivated by monetary incentives, the motivational impact of goal-setting, the motivational impact of change, or collaboration and/or working together, to name a few.
Download or read book A Straightforward Guide to Teacher Merit Pay written by Gary W. Ritter and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reward your best teachers for the great work they do! Is your school system considering teacher merit pay? Now is the time to understand the potential benefits and pitfalls of performance-based teacher pay, as well as how today’s most successful programs were developed. Drawing on substantial research with school districts, Gary Ritter and Joshua Barnett provide a step-by-step approach to setting up a merit pay system in your school district. Readers will find An overview of existing merit pay programs and their strengths and weaknesses A review of the 12 most common myths about merit pay, and how school leaders can respond Six guiding principles for designing a merit pay program, along with how-to’s and timelines for every phase Guidance on creating balanced assessments based on multiple measures of teacher effectiveness, and developed in collaboration with teachers Ensure that your district’s merit pay program supports teachers’ professional growth, schoolwide progress, and student achievement. "Ritter and Barnett bring much-needed researched clarity to this complex issue. For school administrators, education policy makers, legislators, and others interested in school reform, this book is a must-read." —Rod Paige, Former U.S. Secretary of Education "This guide is a useful resource for undertaking merit pay, preventing pitfalls, and most importantly, offering solid recommendations for creating well-designed implementations." —Gary Stark, President and CEO National Institute for Excellence in Teaching
Download or read book Merit Pay and the Evaluation Problem written by Richard J. Murnane and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Administrator Perception of Merit Pay on Motivation and Job Performance written by Joyce A. Brasington and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School districts in Michigan and across the nation must continue to meet federal and state mandates to compensate educators, including administrators, on the basis of performance. The traditional salary schedule is considered by many to be outdated and ineffective because it does not base administrator compensation on job performance. The purpose of this study was to analyze administrators’ perception on how his or her motivation and job performance has been impacted by a merit pay program. This descriptive case study research analyzes survey data, focus group interviews, and personal interviews to provide an in-depth study of an administrator merit pay program in a suburban school district in Michigan. The major findings of this research revealed merit pay nor the amount of merit pay impacts motivation or job performance for a majority of administrators.
Download or read book Superintendent and Teacher Perceptions of Performance Based Pay written by David Moyer and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current policy push in America is an intense focus on teacher effectiveness. Often, legislators and business leaders assume that merit pay in education is a means to improve teacher performance despite the fact that it has never worked and is debunked by the research. In his book Superintendent and Teacher Perceptions of Performance Based Pay, Dr. Moyer examines the concepts of knowledge and skills and group performance based pay from the perspective of Illinois school superintendents and teacher association presidents to determine the extent to which these compensation systems might be a viable alternative to the single salary schedule. The book traces the history of teacher compensation, examines the role teacher motivation plays, includes lessons from districts that were early implementers, provides a detailed analysis of the research, and yields several surprising insights, including the finding that superintendents and association presidents actually agree on several major concepts that could make moving to alternative compensation systems much more feasible than might be assumed.
Download or read book Teacher Motivation written by Kathleen Malen Stanton and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mississippi Teachers Perception of Merit Pay written by Diana Melissa Stephens and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers are the center of increasing student achievement and student motivation, therefore, a way to motivate teachers must be implemented. Although most teachers are motivated intrinsically for their love of teaching, external motivation could add another component to teacher success. Merit pay is one way to provide an external motivator to change teaching strategies in order to increase student achievement. This study measured teachers' perceptions in Mississippi, who are involved in the merit pay pilot program. There are four school districts participating in the pilot program, and two of those school districts were surveyed for this study, a central Mississippi school district and a south Mississippi school district. The data showed that teachers' perception was moderate, and improvements to the program could be made to increase the positive perception of teachers' regarding the merit pay program. No statistical difference was found between low and high socioeconomic schools, veteran teachers and nonveteran teachers, or teachers who teach tested grades, and teachers who do not. Therefore, regardless of where and who the teachers teach, they do not have a different perception of merit pay. When the merit pay criteria was correlated with teachers' perception of merit pay, there was a moderate positive correlation revealing that if teachers understand and have buy-in to the criteria they are having to meet to earn merit pay they have a more positive perception of the program. Merit pay has the potential to motivate teachers to change teaching strategies in the classroom when the focus stays on the successful strategies of implementing merit pay. --Page ii.
Download or read book The M M Effect Assessing the Impact of Merit Pay on Teacher Motivation written by Alison Coates-McBride and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student achievement is a serious problem in American schools today. Academics are compromised when districts have difficulty attracting, retaining and rewarding highly qualified teachers. School districts must utilize innovative methods in motivating educators to stay in the profession. Teacher motivation is the key to academic success. (Contains 1 table.).
Download or read book Merit Money and Teachers Careers written by Henry C. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Merit Pay and Motivation written by Linda A. Farr and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teacher Responses to Incentives written by Maria De Los Angeles Perez Zurita and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merit pay for teachers is one of the most contentious issues in the K-12 education policy arena. Proponents of merit pay suggest that rewarding teachers for student gains will improve the quality of the teacher workforce. The literature has focused largely on how merit pay affects teacher motivation, and has not investigated the mechanism through which merit pay would change the composition of the teaching force. Presumably, merit pay systems result in highly effective teachers receiving higher pay than ineffective teachers, encouraging the desired pattern of retention and turnover. In addition, it is argued that tying pay to performance will attract new individuals to enter the profession who would not have otherwise done so under the uniform salary scheme, generating a larger pool of teachers from which to hire. These theoretical predictions rest on the basic assumption that highly effective teachers are neutral when it comes to their preferences for uncertain and competitive pay schemes, and are not averse to unequal outcomes among their peers. In my first chapter, I conduct a framed field experiment to investigate how risk aversion, inequity aversion and preferences toward competition differed among highly effective prospective teachers and lawyers. I find that prospective female teachers and lawyers do not differ in their level of risk aversion. However, female teachers had a much stronger aversion to inequity and were less likely to generate a competitive environment than female lawyers that were planning a career in private practice. Interestingly, there were no statistical differences between prospective female teachers and lawyers who planned careers in public practice. In my second chapter, I use unique data that enables us to link teachers' performance-base preferences directly to their effectiveness (as measured by their value-added) and their school performance, to investigate how these effectiveness measures relate to their preferences for competitive bonuses. We find that highly effective teachers are more likely to prefer individual competitive payment schemes over a salary increase. Teachers that work in highly effective schools are also more likely to select a competitive schoolwide bonus over a salary increase for all teachers in their districts. And teachers, on average, are more likely to prefer schoolwide over individual bonuses, especially highly-effective teachers that work in high performing schools. In my last chapter, I use an agent-based model to simulate the system-wide compositional effects resulting from the introduction of performance-based pay in education. This simulation model captures the dynamic processes of workers sorting in and out of teaching once merit pay is implemented. To calibrate important parameters of the model (e.g., teacher preferences), I incorporate what was learned about teacher preferences and motivation in the previous chapters. These results suggest that if teachers and workers outside of teaching maximize their own utility without taking into consideration the payoff of their group of reference, the introduction of merit pay would result in a higher quality teacher workforce. However, once social preferences and internal motivation are incorporated as characteristics of the agents, these potential benefits decline by as much as 70%.
Download or read book A Comparison of Individual and School Level Approaches to Merit Pay written by Eugene F. Provenzo and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This policy study discusses two models of merit pay programs enacted in Florida: the Florida Meritorious Teacher Program and the Quality Instruction Incentives Program (quiip). Using the Motivation-Hygiene Theory (Herzberg et al.) as a theoretical framework, each program was analyzed from the perspective of how it worked as a motivator and source of satisfaction or dissatisfaction for teachers in their work. Evidence from the research was sufficient to warrant a number of general conclusions about the two programs: (1) business imposed its model of merit pay (the Florida Master Teacher Program) on the educational system; (2) quiip was implemented in response to the perceived limitations of the Florida Master Teacher Program; (3) merit pay became a confusing phenomenon for both those experiencing it and evaluating it, with two different programs being imposed on teachers at the same time; (4) the two models of merit pay functioned, in part, in different ways; and (5) merit pay in either the form of school based merit pay or individual level merit pay does not provide a solution to the general problem of low teacher salaries. Policy recommendations are suggested based on these conclusions. (Jd).
Download or read book The Role of Performance Pay Systems in Comprehensive School Reform written by Warren A. Hodge and published by Upa. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviewing the research literature on performance pay (or teacher pay incentive) systems in the United States, the author explores some of the most prominent proposed and practiced systems. He explores positive and negative outcomes for the various systems and provides recommendations on how to implement performance pay systems. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teacher Motivation written by Paul W. Richardson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teacher Motivation: Theory and Practice provides a much needed introduction to the current status and future directions of theory and research on teacher motivation. Although there is a robust literature covering the theory and research on student motivation, until recently there has been comparatively little attention paid to teachers. This volume draws together a decade of work from psychological theorists and researchers interested in what motivates people to choose teaching as a career, what motivates them as they work with students in classrooms, the impact of intrinsic and extrinsic forces on career experiences, and how their motivational profiles vary at different stages of their career. With chapters from leading experts on the topic, this volume provides a critical resource not only for educational psychologists, but also for those working in related fields such as educational leadership, teacher development, policy makers and school psychology.
Download or read book Attracting and Compensating America s Teachers written by Kern Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the classroom teacher as the key component in the educational process, this yearbook reviews recent school reform upheavals and their effects on teacher compensation, availability and quality of teachers, teacher retirement systems and related issues. After introductory observations on teachers' economic subsidies by Kern Alexander, the following chapters are included: (1) "Teachers in the Economic System" by Patricia Anthony; (2) "Teacher Education Recommendations in the School Reform Reports" by K. Forbis Jordan; (3) "The Supply of U.S. Teachers: Quality for the Twenty-First Century" by James N. Fox; (4) "Teachers' Salaries: An International Perspective" by Stephen B. Lawton; (5) "Restructuring Teacher Compensation Systems: An Analysis of Three Incentive Strategies" by Betty Malen and others; (6) "Merit Pay: Issues and Solutions" by Lloyd E. Frohreich; (7) "Merit Pay and Teaching as a Career" by Stephen L. Jacobson; (8) "Funding of Teacher Education in State Universities" by Bruce A. Peseau; (9) "Judicial Requirements for Equal Pay" by Joseph C. Beckham; (10) "The Changing Condition of Teacher Retirement Systems: A Certain Past, a Tenuous Present, an Uncertain Future" by Eugene P. McLoone; and (11) "Teacher Salaries: Progress over the Decade" by Richard G. Salmon. Name and subject indices are included, along with biographical notes about the editors and contributors and a list of American Educational Finance Association officers 1987-88. (TE)
Download or read book ERIC Clearinghouse Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
