Allison McKie has expertise in evaluating educational interventions, including teacher incentive programs, and conducting systematic research reviews.
McKie has conducted research on teacher pay-for-performance programs and other topics in educational reform. She was the project director for an evaluation of the Teacher Advancement Program in the Chicago Public Schools, a whole-school reform that combined teacher performance incentives and promotion opportunities with mentoring and professional development. She currently provides technical assistance to grantees under the Teacher Incentive Fund, which promotes performance-based teacher and principal compensation systems in high-need schools. McKie is principal investigator for the an effort to help educators use data strategically to improve teachers’ effectiveness and increase students’ college readiness, and plays a lead role in the national evaluation of teacher residency programs.
McKie presents at conferences of professional organizations, including the American Educational Research Association, Association for Education Finance and Policy, and Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. The author of a chapter on dropout rates in the Encyclopedia of Education Economics & Finance, she holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
This study examined the impacts of structured relationship-building teacher home visits conducted in grades 1–5 as part of a family engagement program in the District of Columbia Public Schools.
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