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.
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Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Final Report on Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance Across Four YearsDec 19, 2017
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Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Final Report on Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance Across Four Years (Executive Summary)Dec 19, 2017
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Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance: The 2010 Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) Grantees After Three Years (Study Snapshot)Aug 24, 2016
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.
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Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After Three Years (Executive Summary)Aug 24, 2016
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.
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Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After Three Years (Final Report)Aug 24, 2016
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.
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Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After Two Years (Executive Summary)Sep 24, 2015
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.
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Bridging the Gap in Workforce and Education Services: Career Coaching in the Virginia RETHINKS Health Sciences Education TAACCCT ProgramSep 21, 2015
As part of its TAACCCT grant, Virginia community colleges hired career coaches. This outcomes study examined the characteristics of coaching participants, estimated associations between participation and student outcomes, and compared participant outcomes with the outcomes of other students.
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Pay for Performance: Evaluating the Teacher Incentive Fund (In Focus Brief)Sep 16, 2014
Provides an early look at the experiences of districts implementing the Teacher Incentive Fund in 2010.
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Early Implementation Experiences of the 2010 Teacher Incentive Fund Grantees (Snapshot)Sep 16, 2014
The Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) provides grants to support performance-based compensation systems for teachers and principals in high-need schools. This snapshot of the program looks at the early implementation experiences of the 2010 TIF grantees.
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Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Early Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After One YearSep 16, 2014
This is the first of four planned reports from a multiyear study focusing on the TIF grants awarded in 2010.
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Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Early Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After One Year: Executive SummarySep 16, 2014
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...