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Do Countries Paying Teachers Higher Relative Salaries Have Higher Student Mathematics Achievement?

Martin Carnoy Iliana Brodziak Thomas Luschei

Stanford University School of Education Carnoy@stanford.edu

Tara Beteille Prashant Loyalka

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teacher pay and student mathematics achievement

Copyright ? 2009 International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)

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ISBN/EAN: 978-90-79549-05-4

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This report was prepared for the TEDS-M project under the auspices of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) and supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and funding from IEA. The research for seven of the countries included in this report (Bulgaria, Chinese Taipei, England, Germany, Korea, Mexico, and the United States) was prepared under an earlier NSF grant and as part of a still ongoing project at Michigan State University (P-TEDS). Those seven countries were the subject of an earlier paper, "How Much Would It Cost to Attract Individuals with More Mathematics Knowledge into Middle School (Lower Secondary) Teaching? A Seven-Country Comparison" (Michigan State University: mimeo, January 2006). We would like to thank MSU, IEA, and the NSF for all their support.

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A Note on the Authors

Martin Carnoy is Vida Jacks Professor of Education and Economics, Stanford University. Tara Beteille is a post-doctoral student at the School of Education, Stanford. Prashant Loyalka is an assistant professor at Peking University's China Institute for Education Finance Research. Iliana Brodziak is a researcher at the American Institutes for Research in Palo Alto. Thomas Luschei is Assistant Professor of Education at Florida State University.

Acknowledgments

This study would not have been possible without the help of many people in the countries we studied. Some of these, such as Thabo Mzwinila, from Botswana, Kiril Bankov from Bulgaria, Beatrice Avalos from Chile, Sigrid Bl?meke from Germany, Evangeline Golla from the Philippines, Khoon Yoong Wong from Singapore, Jesus Dominguez from Spain, and Fritz Oser from Switzerland, are either part of the P-TEDS or TEDS-M projects or took an active role in helping us get salary data from their countries. Others provided varied forms of assistance. Claude Th?lot and our colleagues at the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), France, helped us with the French data, Yue-Ping Chung, Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Stanford graduate, conducted the Hong Kong estimates for us, Young-sook Nam (a Stanford graduate) and Seung-bok Kang were instrumental in getting us the Korean data, Zhi Hui Tang helped us obtain the Singapore data, and Kent Chang helped us in Chinese Taipei. The statistics bureaus in various countries--Australia, Chinese Taipei, Finland, Germany (German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) and Cornell University), Norway, the Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, and Thailand--were very cooperative in working with us to obtain accurate data for our estimates. Special thanks to Torbjorn Haegeland and Lars Kirkeboen of the research department of Statistics Norway for undertaking the complex estimates for Norway. We also appreciate the comments from those representatives of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) General Assembly who were able to provide feedback on the country studies. We are, of course, indebted to William Schmidt, Maria Teresa Tatto, Barbara Malak, and Hans Wagemaker for their ongoing support of the project.

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