RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Teachers’ Labor Market Responses to Performance Evaluation Reform: Experimental Evidence from Chicago Public Schools
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 615
OP 655
DO 10.3368/jhr.51.3.0514-6390R1
VO 51
IS 3
A1 Lauren Sartain
A1 Matthew P. Steinberg
YR 2016
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/51/3/615.abstract
AB Traditional teacher evaluation systems have come under scrutiny for not identifying, supporting, and, if necessary, removing low-performing teachers from the classroom. Leveraging the experimental rollout of a pilot evaluation system in Chicago, we find that, while there was no main effect of the pilot on teacher exit, the pilot system increased exit for low-rated and nontenured teachers. Furthermore, teachers who exited were lower performing than those who stayed and those who replaced them. These findings suggest that reformed evaluation systems can induce low-performing teachers to exit schools and may also improve the overall quality of the teacher labor force.