[Lmresearch] New RAND report--Breaking Ground: Analysis of the Assessment System and Impact of Mexico's Teacher Incentive Program "Carrera Magisterial"

[Russell W. Rumberger]

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           Breaking Ground: Analysis of the Assessment System and Impact of Mexico's Teacher Incentive Program "Carrera Magisterial" 

            by Lucrecia Santibáñez, José Felipe Martínez, Ashlesha Datar, Patrick J. McEwan, Claude Messan Setodji, Ricardo Basurto-Dávila

            Mexico's Carrera Magisterial is one of the pioneer teacher incentive programs in the world. It was instituted in 1992 and designed jointly by the federal and state education authorities and the teachers' union as a horizontal promotion system that rewards teachers with salary bonuses based on their performance. Teacher performance is evaluated based on a number of criteria, such as seniority, educational attainment, professional development, teacher performance, and student achievement.

            The findings from this study are consistent with the literature on teacher incentives,which offers mixed evidence on the effects of salary incentives offered to teachers to improve student achievement. Most of the programs we reviewed in this study showed only modest improvements in student test scores, and these improvements (when they were observed) were often short-lived. Moreover, there was evidence that teachers devoted extra time to test preparation and this extra attention might have been partly responsible for the positive effects observed in some programs.

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