Aligning Learning Incentives of Students and Teachers

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1、IncompleteAligningLearningIncentivesofStudentsandTeachers:ResultsfromaSocialExperimentinMexicanHighSchools****JereR.BehrmanSusanParkerPetraE.Todd*KennethI.WolpinAndEstimatingaCoordinationGamewithintheClassroom**PetraE.ToddandKennethI.Wolpin*UniversityofPennsylvania**CIDE

2、I.Introduction1Thispaperevaluatestheimpactofalarge-scalesocialexperiment(theAligningLearningIncentives,orALI,program),involving88MexicanFederalhighschools,designedtopromotemathematicsachievementthroughperformance-basedmonetaryincentives.Highschoolswererandomlyallocatedto

3、threetreatmentgroupsandacontrolgroup.Treatmentone(T1)providesindividualincentivestostudentsonlyandtreatmenttwo(T2)toteachersonly.Treatmentthree(T3)o¤ersbothindividualandgroupincentivestostudents,teachersandschooladministrators,thusrewardingcooperationamongalloftheeducati

4、onactorsintheschool.Animportantrationaleforutilizingmonetaryincentivesratherthaninterveningintheeducationalprocessdirectlyisthatpolicymakersarenotlikelytoknowthebestmeansofimprovingeducationgiventheheterogeneousattributesofstudents,teachersandadministra-torsacrossschools

5、.Theproductionprocessbywhichschool,studentandfamilyinputsaretransformedintoeducationaloutcomesisasyetnotwellunderstood.2Providingmonetaryincentivestiedtostudentperformanceallowsstudents,teachersandprincipalstochoosethebestmeanstoimproveperformancegiventheirspeci…ccircums

6、tances.TheALIprogramwasdesignedtoevaluatethee¢cacyofalternativeperformance-basedincentiveschemesappliedtoacommonpopulation.Researchontheimpactande¢cacyofperformance-basedmonetaryincentivesinedu-cationisrelativelysparse.Webrie‡yreviewsomeexamplesfromthatliterature,includi

7、ngstudiesofteacherincentives,studentincentivesandcombinedteacherandstudentincen-tives.Werestrictattentiontorandomizedcontroltrials(withoneexception)and,within1TheauthorsworkedonthisstudywiththesupportoftheInter-AmericanDevelopmentBankandthesupportandcollaborationoftheMex

8、icanMinistryofEducation.Wethanktheseorganizationsformakingthisstudypossible.WeareespeciallyindebtedtoMi