{"id":3011,"date":"2012-10-31T12:46:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T17:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/?page_id=3011"},"modified":"2013-01-06T16:51:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T21:51:51","slug":"monday-december-14th-2009","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/performanceincentives\/ncpi-newsletter\/monday-december-14th-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, December 14th, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Results from NCPI’s Signature Performance Pay Experiment Coming in 2010<\/h4>\n
\"\"NCPI recently concluded the implementation of the Project on Incentives in Teaching (POINT), and researchers are now analyzing data collected during the three-year experiment. Set in the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS), POINT is a randomized, controlled trial evaluating the effects of a pay-for-performance intervention on student achievement. It is the first randomized experiment in the nation to test the link between teacher bonuses and student achievement.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Educator Compensation Symposium Connects Research to Practice<\/h4>\n

NCPI co-sponsored a national symposium entitled,Differentiated Compensation in Education: A Symposium on Practical Applications and Lessons Learned,<\/em> on November 9th and 10th inHouston,\u00a0Texas. The symposium addressed differentiated compensation plans for educators in bothTexas\u00a0and nationally, with a focus on lessons learned, current research findings, and future directions for performance pay programs.<\/p>\n

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    NCPI’s Online Interactive Map Updated with New Performance Pay Programs<\/h4>\n

    NCPI has been collecting data and information about performance pay programs around the country with a specific focus on programs that use measures of student achievement in part for determining bonus awards to educators. These programs, operating at national, state, and local levels, are featured in an\u00a0interactive map on NCPI’s website.<\/p>\n

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    Round Rock Experiment Heads Into Second Year of Evaluation<\/h4>\n

    NCPI researchers recently began the second year of its second performance pay experiment, this one in Round Rock,\u00a0Texas. Similar to the POINT experiment inNashville, the Round Rock experiment is a randomized field trial but studies the effects of team-based teacher incentives on student achievement as opposed to incentives based on individual teacher performance, as in POINT.<\/p>\n

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