Teacher Incentives for Student Performance Study

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Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence From the Project on Incentives in Teaching.

This study examines whether offering financial incentives to teachers of fifth- through eighth-grade math students improves their students’ achievement on the math section of the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program. The study found that students with math teachers who were offered financial incentives performed no better or worse than students with teachers who were not offered incentives

The What Works Clearinghouse Quick Review does not consider these results to be conclusive because the groups of students compared may have differed before the intervention. The WWC determined that the research described in this report does not meet WWC evidence standards.