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A SURVEY OF TEACHER MERIT RATING IN SELECTED MIDWEST STATES
Abstract
To provide competent teachers for the schools some have suggested that it is necessary to include some measure of competency in the salary system; yet the single salary schedule, currently in wide use, contains no such measure. The practice of using a competency or merit factor has been employed for more than fifty years with about half of the larger schools using it in the mid-twenties. Merit as a salary factor declined through the depression thirties and the inflation forties until less than 5 per cent of the schools included it in their salary systems.Since World War II, with the rapid rise in teacher salaries there has been a renewed interest in the use of merit rating, further heightened by Sputnik and the demand for more quality in our educational system.Opposition to the use of merit rating has been expressed by teachers since the mid-twenties. Increased interest in the practice by state legislatures, boards of education, and school administrators has produced increased opposition by teacher organizations--American Federa- tion of Teachers and the National Education Association, especially the Department of Classroom Teachers.
Subject Area
Educational administration
Recommended Citation
MILLER, JUD LESTER, "A SURVEY OF TEACHER MERIT RATING IN SELECTED MIDWEST STATES" (1964). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI6412238.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI6412238