As those who push for education "reform" continually talk about the need for merit pay for teachers, there are always questions as to whether or not those schemes work. Esther Quintero writes about it on the Shanker Blog and looks at some of the studies around merit pay. Quintero writes:
"In 1999, Deci and his colleagues published a meta-analysis of 128 studies (see here), again concluding that when people do things in exchange for external rewards, their intrinsic motivation tends to diminish. Once a certain activity is associated with a tangible reward, such as money, people will be less inclined to participate in the task when the reward is not present. Deci concluded that extrinsic rewards make it harder for people to sustain self-motivation."This is also illustrated (literally) in this video:
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Motivate? Yes, I'll create a time machine so I can add more hours to the day.
Then I'll go visit all my students in my transporter to make sure they get to class.
Then I'll go take psych classes so I have great understanding of all the kids that come in
Then I'll give the parents counciling to make sure they help their own kids out.
Merit pay? Really? I don't think there is anything more I can do that would be worthy of merit.
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