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Learning in secondary > Monetary incentives to teachers (eLS) > Springer 2010

Detailed Information

Country	Country: United States
GDP per capita	53.874
Context details	N/A
Age	Grades 5-8

2. Intervention

Implementation year	2006
Implementer	Government
Duration (months)	9
Cost	The program paid $1.3 million in bonuses; teachers were eligible for bonuses of up to $15,000 per year
Intervention details	The Project on Incentives in Teaching provided financial rewards to math teachers if their students showed large gains on standardized tests

Evaluation design	Randomized evaluation
Cluster definition	School

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
Grades 5-8	Math	TCAP	8	12311	Coeff: 3.00; SE: 2.00; SD: 100.00

Study	Springer, Matthew G., Dale Ballou, Laura Hamilton, Vi-Nhuan Le, J. R. Lockwood, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Matthew Pepper, and Brian M. Stecher. "Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence from the Project on Incentives in Teaching." National Center on Performance Incentives (2010).