Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC) incentive program

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Evidence · 4 claims (3 for, 1 mixed) · 2 studies (2 associational), q2 · 0 of 2 report an effect size · 4 claims rest on one study

Description

A New Leaders for New Schools programme that offers incentives to educators in eligible schools showing significant student achievement gains and supports documenting and disseminating their practices.

Components

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]
• The EPIC evaluation baseline report compares student characteristics across the program's three partners and compares award-determination data with data on all students in the awarded schools [+W]

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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

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title	Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC) incentive program
description	A New Leaders for New Schools programme that offers incentives to educators in eligible schools showing significant student achievement gains and supports documenting and disseminating their practices.
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