September 30, 2010 | Posted At: 10:11 AM | Author: Alexander Russo | Category: (Who Cares What) Research Says , On Maryland Avenue , Teachers, Teaching, Unions
Performance Pay: TAP FAIL In Chicago
Here's a second study suggesting that the approach doesn't have any big effects on student achievement. This one is about Chicago's TAP program -- the program that was adopted a few years ago in the Windy City, expanded, then .... changed and expanded again with more recent USDE TIF money:
"Compared with a group of matched comparison schools, students at the 16 Teacher Advancement Program schools did not have significantly higher scores on state reading or mathematics tests. The authors reported no significant effect on teacher retention at either the school or district level. The WWC has reservations about these findings because the groups of students, teachers, and schools compared in the analysis may have differed from each other in ways not controlled for in the analysis."
How can you have a study of retention for schools that have only been in a program for one or two years?
Posted by: Ari | October 02, 2010 at 15:23 PM