AEFA 2008 Presentations by CRPE Staff

Several CRPE staffers are presenting at the 2008 AEFA conference. A list of those presentations and related papers is below.

Teacher Preferences and Attitudes About Pay and Compensation Reforms: Implications for Reform Implementation

This paper describes research designed to shed additional light on how teachers feel about different pay and incentive reforms.

• DATE: Friday 4/11/08 Time: 8:30am Session: 2.05 Beyond Salary – What Else Matters to Teachers and What Difference Does it Make? Room: CONTINENTAL A
• Dan Goldhaber, PRESENTER, Michael DeArmond, Scott DeBurgomaster,presented at AEFA April 2008

Improving the Selection of Teachers: Is Decentralization Enough? (PDF)

This presentation reports findings from a qualitative field study that describes recruitment and interview practices in 10 elementary schools in a large, decentralized urban school district.

• DATE: Friday 4/11/08 Time: 8:30am Session: 2.06 Teacher Hiring Practices Room: LAWRENCE B
• Bethany Gross, PRESENTER, Dan Goldhaber, Michael DeArmond, presented at AEFA April 2008

Measuring School Productivity: Educational Return on Investment (PDF)

In this poster session, we are incorporating a cost component into school performance measurement in order to measure school productivity, and are doing this by using a return on investment tool.

• DATE: Saturday 4/12/08 Time: 8:00 - 9:30 am Session: Poster Sessions Rooms: LAWRENCE A, B, and LAWRENCE FOYER
• Mike Foote PRESENTER, Marguerite Roza, presented at AEFA April 2008