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Download full textHouston Independent School District, 2017
The purpose of the "Accelerating Student Progress: Increasing Results and Expectations" (ASPIRE) Award Survey was to gain insight regarding the level of knowledge and perceptions of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) teachers and staff after eleven years of implementation of growth-based performance pay in HISD, as well as…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Teacher Salaries, School Districts, Incentives
Houston Independent School District, 2017
On January 12, 2006, the Houston Independent School District (HISD) Board of Education approved a teacher performance-pay program awarding teachers financial incentives based on three indicators of performance pay. These indicators involved group performance for teachers based on campus second grade comparative growth in mathematics and reading…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Teacher Salaries, School Districts, Incentives
Houston Independent School District, 2017
On January 12, 2006, the Houston Independent School District (HISD) Board of Education approved a teacher performance-pay program awarding teachers financial incentives based on three indicators of performance pay, using value-added methodology. For 2015-2016, HISD did not renew its contract with SAS EVAAS®. The amended model replaced EVAAS® with…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Teacher Salaries, School Districts, Incentives
Houston Independent School District, 2014
On January 12, 2006, the Houston Independent School District (HISD) Board of Education approved a teacher performance-pay program awarding teachers financial incentives based on three indicators of performance pay. These indicators involved group performance for teachers based on campus second grade comparative growth in mathematics and reading…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Teacher Salaries, School Districts, Incentives
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Direct linkBecker, William E.; Bosshardt, William; Watts, Michael – Journal of Economic Education, 2012
Based on results from a 1999 national survey, William Becker and Michael Watts found that student evaluations of teaching were by far the most widely used, and often the only method used by economics departments, to evaluate teaching in undergraduate economics courses. To investigate whether departments of economics have moved beyond the use of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Economics Education, Undergraduate Study, National Surveys
Shah, Mahsood; Nair, Chenicheri Sid – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2012
Purpose: Teaching and unit evaluations surveys are used to assess the quality of teaching and the quality of the unit of study. An analysis of teaching and unit evaluation survey practices in Australian universities suggests significant changes. One key change discussed in the paper is the shift from voluntary to mandatory use of surveys with the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Control, Student Experience
Barraclough, Terry – 1973
The National Association of Secondary School Principals surveyed school districts throughout the United States to determine the details of merit pay programs offered to secondary school administrators. The ERIC Clearinghouse on Education Management compiled and analyzed the results of the survey. Eight basic types of programs are identified and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Practices, Evaluation Methods, Merit Pay
Springer, Matthew G.; Podgursky, Michael J.; Lewis, Jessica L.; Ehlert, Mark W.; Gardner, Catherine G.; Ghoshdastidar, Bonnie; Lopez, Omar S.; Patterson, Christine H.; Taylor, Lori L. – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2007
This report presents findings stemming from the first-year evaluation of the Governor's Educator Excellence Grant (GEEG) program, one of several statewide performance incentive programs in Texas. In the fall of 2006, the GEEG program made available non-competitive, three-year grants to 99 schools ranging from $60,000 to $220,000 per year. Grants…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Economically Disadvantaged, Research Reports
