Teacher Performance Management as Inducement, Incentive, Judgment, and Obligated Procedure

• In Event: Roundtable Session 57
  In Roundtable Session: Evaluation, Professional Growth, and Use of Data of Educators

Abstract

Performance management systems bank on the power of performance evaluations and extrinsic rewards that together are to motivate educators to change their practices. In the US, the federal Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) initiative has recently spawned experimentation with performance management systems in the field of education. The focus of this paper is on a specific slice of the management system: evaluations of instruction based on video submissions of lessons, externally scored according to a clinical observation tool widely shared among faculty, internal quarterly formative conferences between teachers and their supervisors, and attendant yearly bonuses. Findings reveal the importance of the system was not in its incentive function, but in obligating procedures and technologies that in time influenced teacher learning.

Authors

• Laura Pryor, University of California - Berkeley

• Rick Mintrop, University of California - Berkeley

• Miguel Ordenes, University of California - Berkeley

• Erin Coghlan, University of California - Berkeley

• Cristóbal Madero, University of California - Berkeley