Should teachers' salary be based on students' academic performance?
Salaries are the result of a complex and intricate system of incentives. It is universally accepted that those who work harder should be better compensated than those who choose to provide less effort. As such, some have suggested that in order for teachers to be incentivized to work harder they should be compensated based on their students’ academic performance. This, however, is undesirable, as students academic performance is often times not indicative of teacher’s efforts, and since such practice my lend themselves to expediency and effectively disadvantage low-income students.
The role of a teacher is not a simple one. We entrust teachers with society’s most valuable assets, its youth. We expect teachers to educate them on topics we deem important, such as mathematics of English, but more importantly we expect them to educate our children. Education encompasses a myriad of topics which extend far beyond the realm of academics. They include values, morals and principles which we wish our kids would abide by. It is a testament to this near ubiquitous consensus that most parents would take umbrage at the notion of a convicted felon teaching their children, despite any potential expertise they may have at physics or chemistry. Nevertheless, our education system is geared to only evaluate teachers on the basis of students’ academic performance. Therefore, linking their salaries to student’s performance would seem to act as a poor indicator of their quality as teachers.
Furthermore, making teacher’s salaries contingent on student performance may prove counter-productive as it may incentivize expediency on the part of the teachers. A teacher knowing their wages depend on their student’s performance may be inclined to purposefully design easy examination or provide their students with answers to external evaluations.
Additionally it is a well documented phenomenon that students coming from lower-income households tend to underperform in school compared to their more affluent peers. This may result from a myriad of reasons, such as decreased access to extracurricular tutoring as well as less support at home. If such a wage-differentiated system were to be implemented it would likely disincentive teachers from teaching in lower-income neighbourhoods as they would likely receive lower compensation than that they could garner at richer boroughs.
One may nonetheless argue that performance-based wage-differentiation is favourable, as surely good teachers should be compensated accordingly. After all, a salesmen who sales a million dollars worth of goods should not have to share the same salary as that which has yet to made a sale. Such argument is completely reasonable, however, it rests on the mistaken assumption that students performance is an indicator of the quality of their teachers. Consequently, alternative schemes could be devised; such as paying teachers for the amount of time they spend preparing their lessons prior to teaching.
All in all, it is imperative to keep in mind that teacher’s roles are not solely academic. Perhaps that is the role of the university lecturer, however, a school teacher is first and foremost an educator. Therefore, it would due a great disservice, not to mention harm, if we were to induce our teachers as we do salesmen. Teachers must therefore not be paid on the basis of an unreliable proxy of their true quality.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 33.0505617978 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2936.0 2235.4752809 131% => OK
No of words: 533.0 442.535393258 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.50844277674 5.05705443957 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80487177365 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.40791867941 2.79657885939 122% => OK
Unique words: 274.0 215.323595506 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514071294559 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 921.6 704.065955056 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.0182659832 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.44 118.986275619 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.32 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.92 5.21951772744 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 7.80617977528 115% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.271266489838 0.243740707755 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.080388571431 0.0831039109588 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0676074860308 0.0758088955206 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158731887775 0.150359130593 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0786893802418 0.0667264976115 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.1392134831 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 12.1639044944 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.42 8.38706741573 112% => OK
difficult_words: 160.0 100.480337079 159% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.