Resumen de High-stakes accountability using teacher salary incentives in Brazil: An update
- español
En Brasil, las políticas de accountability, llamadas políticas de responsabilización, se basan fundamentalmente en la atribución de incentivos salariales y otros pagos de bonificaciones a maestros y escuelas. Para muchos autores, la ecuación entre la accountability educativa y los bonos salariales ha reducido la discusión del significado y las consecuencias de la responsabilización a una valoración del simbolismo y las injusticias de los incentivos salariales. Por otro lado, el concepto de accountabilityen Brasil se ha asociado con una sola medida de control gubernamental y la más fácilmente asociada con la gestión de recursos humanos.Si se van a continuar los incentivos salariales, como una entre varias opciones de política, sus costos deben ser
- English
In Brazil, accountability policies, called políticas de responsabilização, are fundamentally based on the attribution of salary incentives and other bonus payments to teachers and schools. For many authors, the equation between educational accountability and salary bonuses has reduced the discussion of the meaning and consequences of the accountability to an appraisal of the symbolism and injustices of salary incentives. And the other hand, the concept of accountability in Brazil has become associated with a single measure of government control and the one most easily associated with human resource management. If salary incentives are to be continued, as one amongst a number of policy options, their costs need to be calculated and compared to the benefits as measured by appropriate methods of public policy evaluation.
