Time to Lead: An Illustrative Look at How Elementary School Principals Spend Their Workweek

New evidence suggests that elementary school principals spend more than one-third of their workweek providing direct and indirect instructional support to teachers.

Promoting Educator Effectiveness: The Effects of Two Key Strategies

This brief brings together the findings of two studies from the Institute of Education Sciences that examined specific strategies supported by the Teacher Incentive Fund.

Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Final Report on Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance Across Four Years

In 2006, Congress established the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), which provides grants to support performance-based compensation systems for teachers and principals in high-need schools.

Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Final Report on Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance Across Four Years (Executive Summary)

Research has revealed that effective teachers are critical to improving student achievement. Little evidence exists, however, about the best ways to help teachers be more effective, or about how schools that serve the students in most need can attract and retain the most effective teachers.

Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance: The 2010 Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) Grantees After Three Years (Study Snapshot)

This study snapshot summarizes the third report from the national evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund. It provides findings on the implementation of pay-for-performance bonuses for teachers and principals and the impacts of the bonuses on educator and student outcomes after three years.

Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After Three Years (Executive Summary)

This executive summary summarizes the third report from the national evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund. It provides findings on the implementation of pay-for-performance bonuses for teachers and principals and the impacts of the bonuses on educator and student outcomes after three years.

Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After Three Years (Final Report)

This report is the third report from the national evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund. It provides findings on the implementation of pay-for-performance bonuses for teachers and principals and the impacts of the bonuses on educator and student outcomes after three years.

Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance: The 2010 Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) Grantees After Two Years (Snapshot)

As part of Mathematica’s seven-year evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) program, this is the first report to describe the effects of performance-based bonuses within the TIF program.

Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After Two Years (Executive Summary)

As part of Mathematica’s seven-year evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) program, this is the first report to describe the effects of performance-based bonuses within the TIF program.

Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After Two Years

As part of Mathematica’s seven-year evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) program, this is the first report to describe the effects of performance-based bonuses within the TIF program.

Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Early Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After One Year: Executive Summary

This is the first of four planned reports from a multiyear study focusing on the Teacher Incentive Fund grants awarded in 2010. It examines grantees’ implementation experiences and intermediate educator outcomes near the end of the first year of program implementation, before the first pay-for-performance...

Impacts of Performance Pay Under the Teacher Incentive Fund: Study Design Report

Mathematica's rigorous evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) will estimate the impact of performance pay on student achievement, as well as educators' attitudes toward and awareness of TIF and their mobility and recruitment.

Analytic Support for Washington Citizens' Work Group on Health Care: Evaluation of Health Care Reform Proposals

Mathematica evaluated five health care reform proposals for the state of Washington in 2008.

Baseline Statistics for Evaluation of the Effective Practice Incentive Community

This report provides a general overview of EPIC, compares student characteristics across the three partners, and compares the data used to determine which schools receive EPIC awards with data on all the students attending these schools.

Design of the Evaluation of the Effective Practice Incentive Community Initiative

This report details our estimation procedures, documents what is currently known about how EPIC operates within the various partners, and provides a work plan for the evaluation.