Team Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence From the Round Rock Pilot Project on Team Incentives

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 367-390

  Springer, Matthew G ^a   Pane, John F ^b   Le, Vi Nhuan ^b   McCaffrey, Daniel F ^b   Burns, Susan Freeman ^a   Hamilton, Laura S ^b   Stecher, Brian ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

education performance incentives; group incentives; teacher pay for performance; team incentives

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869156828     PISSN: 01623737     EISSN: 19351062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0162373712439094     Document Type: Article

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