Can I read Paying for Better Teaching: Merit Pay and Its Alternatives (OAP monograph series) on EtoBox?

Paying for Better Teaching: Merit Pay and Its Alternatives (OAP monograph series) by Samuel B. Bacharach, David B. Lipsky, and Joseph B. Shedd; with the assistance of K. Haydn Wood is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Paying for Better Teaching: Merit Pay and Its Alternatives (OAP monograph series) about?

President Reagan's promotion of merit pay as the main vehicle of educational change has prompted a sharp debate. This monograph presents arguments for and against merit pay and assesses its relative worth as a means of improving American education. First, merit pay is defined as a compensation system linking individual teachers' salaries to performance evaluations. "New style" merit pay ties salaries to students' standardized test scores, instead of to teachers' classroom activities. Merit pay differs from master teacher plans aimed at increasing hierarchical complexity to construct better career paths for teachers. Merit pay can provide monetary incentives, rewards, feedback, administrative controls over the teaching process, and retention and recruitment benefits. Arguments against merit pay outweigh advantages; pay-for-performance systems overemphasize teachers' need for extrinsic rewards and motivators, may negatively affect desire for high performance, foster teacher rivalry, and pose administrative burdens associated with defining and evaluating superior teaching. Overall costs and union resistance are even thornier problems. Several alternatives are discussed, including ref

Author

Samuel B. Bacharach, David B. Lipsky, and Joseph B. Shedd; with the assistance of K. Haydn Wood

Publisher

Publication Sales, Organizational Analysis and Practice, Inc., Boardman House, 120 East Buffalo Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 ($14.50; quantity discounts)

Published

1984

Language

EN

ISBN

9780930475000

Subjects

Economics, Education, Management