Campus Location
Dallas Campus (Online)
Date of Award
11-2024
Document Type
Dissertation
Department
Organizational Leadership
Degree Name
Doctor of Education
Committee Chair or Primary Advisor
Timothy B. Jones
Second Committee Member or Secondary Advisor
Sandra Harris
Third Committee Member or Committee Reader
Leah Wickersham-Fish
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to gather teacher perceptions of the Texas Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) within a rural school district and provide information to stakeholders and administrators so that they may understand the buy-in of elementary, junior high, and high school teachers. Previous studies showed discrepancies in the extent to which elementary, junior high, and high school teachers accepted and were willing to support and participate in pay-for- performance initiatives; therefore, this case study provided data on the amount of support various levels of educators have in their local TIA program and their perceptions of their local policy for TIA. Through interviews with 10 participants, multiple themes emerged from the data. The researcher used member checking and peer debriefing to establish the accuracy of the transcripts and credibility. After the constant comparative method was used to determine what themes emerged, the study was compared with Lee et al.’s (2021) study on the same incentive program. An alignment was found that suggested lower-level teachers have a greater buy-in of the TIA program than their high school educator peers. Discussions of each theme related to the four research questions are presented. The motivation crowding theory was used to make sense of the data. Then, the perceptions and buy-in of the educators were used to give information to stakeholders and administrators to maximize the quality of implementation for their local TIA program.
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Recommended Citation
Moore, Kelli F., "The Conundrum of Buy-In for the Texas Teacher Incentive Allotment" (2024). Digital Commons @ ACU, Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 827.
https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/etd/827