Principals as Agents? Investigating Accountability in the Compensation and Performance of School Principals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3337091 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sherrilyn M Billger (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 90-107 |
| Publication date | 2007-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001979390706100105 |
| OpenAlex | W3122174159 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
Although school accountability incentives and standards, such as district-mandated goals and state sanctions for poor performance, are increasingly common, few studies have investigated their effectiveness. The author of this paper seeks evidence on whether such policies affect public secondary principal pay and school performance. An analysis of cross-sectional variation in data from the 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey indicates that accountability policies coincided with lower college matriculation rates and lower principal pay, particularly for the best principals. On the other hand, the policies were associated with higher student retention rates at the worst schools. Though principals at those schools may not have been directly rewarded through accountability policies, these principals appear to have acted as agents for students in danger of dropping out
Accountability · Business · Compensation (psychology · Econometrics · Economics · Incentive · Mathematics education · Matriculation · Microeconomics · Pay for performance · Political science · Principal (computer security · Public economics · Quantile regression · Sanctions · Staffing · Statistics · Survey data collection · Variation (astronomy · Computer Science · Psychology · School Choice and Performance · Social Psychology
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Regression Quantiles
Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of School Resources
Public management and organizational performance
Performance Pay and Top-Management Incentives
Labor Unions and the Distribution of Wages and Employment in South Africa
Quantile Regression
Relative Performance Evaluation for Chief Executive Officers
Politics, Markets, and the Organization of Schools
Determinants of the Compensation and Mobility of School Superintendents
School Leadership and Performance
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |