A $20,000 selective transfer incentive offers high-performing teachers in 10 districts payment to move into their district's hardest-to-staff schools¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q2
Currency · newest study 2013 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2016: local conditions change quickly

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The incentive program offers high-performing teachers $20,000 to transfer into the district's hardest-to-staff schools across 10 school districts. → Ali Protik 2013

Evidence¶

Ali Protik 2013¶

Ali Protik, Steven Glazerman, Julie Bruch, Bing-ru Teh. (2013). Staffing a Low-Performing School: Behavioral Responses to Selective Teacher Transfer Incentives. Working Paper 28. Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/working-paper-staffing-a-lowperforming-school-behavioral-responses-to-selective

q2 · i? · causal · r?

The paper's own description of the incentive program under study: high-performing teachers in 10 school districts are offered "$20,000 to transfer into the district's hardest-to-staff schools". No sample sizes or effect sizes are printed on the page.

"an incentive program that offers high-performing teachers in 10 school districts across the country $20,000 to transfer into the district's hardest-to-staff schools"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• The transfer incentive targeted high-performing teachers into the hardest-to-staff schools within their own districts — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• A study of a $20,000 selective transfer incentive examined high-performing teachers' behavioral responses in 10 districts — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• The paper examines high-performing teachers' willingness to transfer and the transfer offer's effect on receiving schools' internal dynamics — related
• Offering $20,000 per teacher filled 90 percent of targeted vacancies in hard-to-staff schools with high-performing teachers across seven districts — related
• Most TTI teachers stayed on the job even after incentive payments ended — related
• Most TTI teachers stayed on the job even after transfer payments ended — related
• TTI was more cost-effective than similar teacher-transfer incentive interventions — related
• TTI transfer incentives increased elementary school students' math and reading test scores by an estimated 4 to 10 percentile points — related