> Give teachers a base salary, plus $X for every student of theirs that meets grade standards at the end of the school year.
Wouldn't this cause misaligned incentives leading to teachers going out of their way to game the grade standards, similar to what has happened with No Child Left Behind
Not that there probably shouldn't be experimentation with compensation to create incentives, but $X per head is overly simplistic and is the sort of thing that gets gamed all of the time.
I know it doesn't boil down to a sentence. Actually implementing it would be more complex.
Will it be gamed? People will surely try. People try to game the SATs all the time, with some small success. But the SATs are still very useful and effective.
The bottom line is, will better results be achieved with this method? Almost certainly.
P.S. Much of the cheating from on the NCLB system was the people who were affected by the test results were the ones administering the test. Of course that won't work. An independent organization has to administer the tests.
Wouldn't this cause misaligned incentives leading to teachers going out of their way to game the grade standards, similar to what has happened with No Child Left Behind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act#Gamin...
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/gaming-the-nclb-syste...
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-educator-ch...
Not that there probably shouldn't be experimentation with compensation to create incentives, but $X per head is overly simplistic and is the sort of thing that gets gamed all of the time.