2008 EPIC baseline principal/vice principal survey¶

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Evidence · 3 claims (3 for) · 1 study (1 associational), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 3 claims rest on one study

Description¶

A baseline survey of principals and vice principals in the three EPIC sites collected information on factors important for informing the implementation and evaluation of EPIC, including school administrators' knowledge of EPIC, attitudes toward performance pay, and appraisal of educational practices in their schools. It provides the descriptive findings reported in this document.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Administered to principals and vice principals in the three EPIC partner sites

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• School principals and vice principals

Target Learning Goals¶

• Informing the implementation and evaluation of the EPIC incentive program

Claims¶

• Most principals in EPIC sites have positive attitudes toward EPIC and merit pay in general [+W]
• Principals exhibit an incomplete understanding of how achievement growth is captured in EPIC performance measures [+W]
• Principals prefer school-level performance and achievement growth over teacher-level performance alone or test-score levels for incentive awards [+W]

Related Elements¶

• Design report for the evaluation of the Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC) initiative
• Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC) incentive program

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Duncan Chaplin, Hanley Chiang, Margaret Sullivan, Virginia Knechtel, Dominic Harris, Shinu Verghese, Kathy Sonnenfeld, Barbara Kennen, John Hall. (2009). 2008 Principal/Vice Principal Survey Results for Evaluation of the Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC). Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/2008-principalvice-principal-survey-results-for-evaluation-of-the-effective-practice-incentive-community-epic