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: 65
- Number of students: 0
- Number of effects: 65
- Weighted mean effect size: -0.02
- Robustness index: 1
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Educational Research Journal | Pham, Nguyen & Springer | USA | Teacher merit pay: A meta-analysis. | 2021 | Merit pay on student performance | 40 | 0 | 40 | 0.05 |
| Report | Fitzpatrick, Brehm, Burns, & Renbarger | USA | Design Characteristics of Effective US Teacher Pay-for-Performance: Implications from Meta-Analysis | 2024 | Merit pay bonus amount | 25 | 0 | 25 | -0.12 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 65 | 0 | 65 | -0.03 | |||||