This study is evaluating these performance-based compensation systems to examine issues like the impact of pay-for-performance on student achievement and educator effectiveness, and helping to answer pressing policy questions about how the programs are designed, communicated, and implemented.
Jill Constantine
Senior Vice President; General Manager, Human Services
Expertise
- Teacher training, quality and compensation
- Access to college for low income students
- Experimental and nonexperimental methods for evaluating education interventions
- Systematic reviews
Focus Areas
- Education
- School Reform
- Strengthening and Disseminating Research
- Teacher and Principal Effectiveness
- Labor: Strengthening and Disseminating Research
- Human Services
About Jill
Jill Constantine is an expert in teacher compensation and quality, as well as access to college for low-income students.
She has led several large-scale studies of federal policy initiatives, applying technical expertise in random assignment study designs, matching procedures such as propensity scoring, and advanced statistical modeling. Constantine directed the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) for the U.S. Department of Education from 2010-2014, also serving as deputy project director for several years. The WWC assesses the quality of thousands of studies of education curricula, practices, and policies, and then summarizes the findings of well-designed studies in reports for educators, policymakers, and the general public. At the core of the WWC is a set of rigorous standards for research design; the high quality studies that meet WWC standards have strong causal validity.
She also directed Mathematica’s evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund grants, a random assignment study of performance-based compensation systems designed to provided bonuses to effective teachers and principals.
Before joining the firm, she was an assistant professor at Williams College. She has published in and serves as a reviewer for a number of peer-reviewed journals, including Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Industrial Relations, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and Review of African American Education. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Key Publications
Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After Two Years
Sep 24, 2015
Early Implementation Experiences of the 2010 Teacher Incentive Fund Grantees (Snapshot)
Sep 16, 2014
Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Early Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After One Year
Sep 16, 2014
Addressing Teacher Shortages in Disadvantaged Schools: Lessons from Two Institute of Education Sciences Studies
Sep 10, 2013
Key Posts
Key Projects (3)
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Evaluation of the Talent Search ProgramTalent Search was established by the federal government in the 1960s to help increase the college enrollment rate of low-income middle and high school students whose parents did not attend college. Mathematica conducted the first national evaluation of the program in more than 25 years.
Latest News (4)
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Mathematica Expands Leadership Team to Guide Company Through Future Challenges and Toward New OpportunitiesMathematica has announced that Jill Constantine is the new general manager of its Human Services Unit, Debbie Reed is the new director of the Education and Employment Division, and Hillary Lewis is the new chief information security officer.
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Research Shows Performance Bonuses for Teachers Can Improve Student AchievementResearch has revealed that effective teachers are critical to improving student achievement.
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Early Implementation Experiences of the 2010 Teacher Incentive Fund GranteesThe study found challenges to full implementation and communicating performance measures and performance bonuses.