Teacher performance pay
Overview
- Influence: Teacher performance pay
- Domain: School
- Sub-Domain: School resourcing
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a negative impact
- Influence Definition: When teacher pay is tied to some measure of the performance outcomes of their students (sometimes called merit pay).
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 2
- Number of studies: 62
- Number of students: NA
- Number of effects: 269
- Weighted mean effect size: -0.02
- Robustness index: 2
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Educational Research Journal | Pham, Nguyen & Springer | Teacher merit pay: A meta-analysis. | 2021 | Merit pay on student performance | 37 | NA | 244 | 0.05 | |
| Report | Fitzpatrick, Brehm, Burns, & Renbarger | Design Characteristics of Effective US Teacher Pay-for-Performance: Implications from Meta-Analysis | 2024 | Merit pay bonus amount | 25 | NA | 25 | -0.12 | |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 62 | NA | 269 | -0.03 | |||||