Missouri Teacher Career Ladder Program¶
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Evidence · 4 claims (3 for, 1 mixed) · 3 studies (3 causal),q2· 0 of 3 report an effect size · 3 claims rest on one study
Description¶
A Missouri state teacher-compensation programme that provides bonuses for specified additional professional work and responsibilities.
Components¶
- Missouri's Career Ladder Program: teacher bonuses for extra work: The Missouri Career Ladder Program is a teacher compensation initiative that pays teachers bonuses for extra work, as profiled in this report. The article describes it as a program whose operation in practice can be contrasted with its design, noting the report "compares how the program works in practice with how it works in theory." It is documented through official program records and stakeholder interviews. (Timothy Silman (2009))
Claims¶
- Small career-ladder bonuses can affect teacher behavior without necessarily producing large effects [+W]
- Missouri's Teacher Career Ladder program has at most a very small positive effect on student test scores [+W]
- School district participation in the Missouri Career Ladder Program tends to increase teacher retention in the district and the profession, especially for mid-career teachers [+W]
- The program's achievement effects were estimated statewide using nine years of longitudinal math and reading scores from 524 Missouri school districts [~W]
Related Products and Programmes¶
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Key Sources¶
- Timothy Silman, Steven Glazerman. (2009). Teacher Bonuses for Extra Work: A Profile of Missouri's Career Ladder Program. Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/teacher-bonuses-for-extra-work-a-profile-of-missouris-career-ladder-program
- Kevin Booker, Steven Glazerman. (2008). Missouri's Teacher Career Ladder Program. Nashville, TN: National Center on Performance Incentives Conference. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/missouris-teacher-career-ladder-program
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Missouri Teacher Career Ladder Program |
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A Missouri state teacher-compensation programme that provides bonuses for specified additional professional work and responsibilities. |
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