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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
when i worked for the gov. we had performance bonuses based upon production metrics. there were several uncontrolled variables that made it easy for some to "earn" it and for others to have little chance. still, overall, it seemed to raise the overall effort.
in anything involving rating people there will be little chance of the process being perfect.
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I'm not against well designe incentive pay. I am against believing that it will make all that much difference and mindful of ty's blogger's point that a poorly designed system can be counterproductive where, as here, it's not always clear that greater effort correlates with greater measured success.
I'm also skeptical about AG's redistribution of teachers as it seems to assume that context doesn't matter. That a teacher does fine in an affluent suburb may not say much about how he/she woul do in an urban setting.
To sum up, I'm not sure teachers are the problem.
