Pay for performance results: Q&A
448 views · Published 23 September 2010 · 59:17 · Indexed 13 October 2026
Channel: Vanderbilt University · 2010 · Education
Watch video of the full "Evaluating Rewarding Educator Effectiveness" conference. Rewarding teachers with bonus pay, in the absence of any other support programs, does not raise student test scores, according to a new study issued today by the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of education and human development in partnership with the RAND Corporation. This and other findings from a three-year experiment -- the first scientific study of performance pay ever conducted in the United States -- were released at a conference on evaluating and rewarding educator effectiveness hosted by the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt. Paying teachers bonuses based on their performance has been a controversial issue nationwide since the 1950s, but until now the concept has never been scientifically researched.
