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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (95111)11/10/2008 9:05:45 AM
From: slacker711  Read Replies (1) of 541777
 
Seems to me if you hook teacher pay to student performance not only do the students then control the teacher, and don't think they wouldn't throw tests to get back at teachers they don't like, but you also put teachers in the position of being at the mercy of class aptitude. Some classes are clearly brighter, and more capable of being improved than other classes. On top of that, you have administrators who could easily stack classes with tough kids.

There are always hazards for paying for results. In the private sector, a manager could put those they disliked onto the projects that are most likely to fail, or a worker can deliberately fail in such a way as to put the blame on the boss. None of that stops pay for performance working rather well in most other industries.

Of course, you do have the problem of small sample sizes with teachers but one way to get around that is to use 3 year averages. Once you get beyond grade schools, where a teacher has a single class all day long, you would have several hundred kids in your data set. That should start to get you statistically significant results and do away with anomalies like your period 2.

FWIW, I'm not opposed to also using softer measures as well for merit pay but there has to be some results based component.

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