Changing Teacher Compensation

The purpose of this five-year project (1996-2001) was to identify alternative teacher salary approaches that provide strong incentives for enhancing the individual capacity to teach students to high academic standards, and that reward groups of teachers for success. To accomplish this, case studies of such programs were conducted and then used to construct surveys that were sent to a larger number of teachers, schools, and districts.

For more information on this project, please see the Teacher Compensation page at our University of Wisconsin-Madison web site.

Products:
Enhancing Teacher Quality Through Knowledge- and Skills-based Pay. (Allan Odden, Carolyn Kelley, Herbert Heneman, and Anthony Milanowski, November 2001)

The Motivational Effects of School-based Performance Awards. (Carolyn Kelley, Allan Odden, Anthony Milanowski, and Herbert Heneman, February 2000))

Paying Teachers for What They Know and Do: New and Smarter Compensation Strategies to Improve Schools, Second Edition. (Allan Odden and Carolyn Kelley. Available from Corwin Press.)

School-based Performance Award Programs, Teacher Motivation, and School Performance: Findings from a Study of Three Programs. (Carolyn Kelley, Herbert Heneman, and Anthony Milanowski, April 2000, No. RR-044)