This two-page information review discusses the controversy over merit pay for teachers. The incidence and characteristics of merit pay programs are considered as well as the advantages and disadvantages of such programs. The question of whether merit pay is instrumental in improving teaching is raised. A list of 17 references is provided. (JD)

Based on documents in the ERIC database, examines issues surrounding community college faculty evaluation. Focuses on the purpose of faculty evaluation, what evaluations measure, who performs evaluations, and such problems facing evaluation programs as lack of administrator concern over faculty success and faculty resistance to evaluation. (28…

Total Quality Management (TQM) establishes business and industry standards and techniques that ensure the quality of products leaving and reaching firms through continuous actions rather than one final inspection. Deming, Juran, and Crosby, who initiated the process, share a common theme of participatory management. Management participation and…

The success of a merit pay program depends primarily on careful, cooperative planning involving all constituencies who will be affected, so that the resulting plan is affordable, acceptable to teachers, and adapted to the needs of the district. Criteria for awards should reflect the goals of the program, and should be applied fairly and…

Included in this annotated bibliography of 11 publications on merit pay are reports covering various approaches to merit increases and the successes of a merit pay program in California's Round Valley School District, an Educational Research Service review of current research and practice on merit and incentive pay for teachers, an ERIC…