What do you think of linking teacher compensation to student performance (based on results in standardized tests)?

Teacher compensation should be linked to student performance only when the performance is judged against well-defined standards.
In the absence of common core standards, imported standardized tests are unreliable.

linking teacher compensation to student performance (based on results in standardized tests) directly on the test time should be forbidden but feed back and reinstatement can be given after the test.
Teacher should have the fair judgment.

Having taught product development to a batch of 25 students at University level in Pakistan I speak only from personal experience.
During the course of my five month semester I don't think monetary benefits charmed me into delivering or for that matter ensuring that all 25 students were able to realise their strengths and were able to work on their weaknesses.
Good teachers are generally like good parents, and gloat in the success of their students improved performance.
However I do feel that institutions should be extremely careful while hand-picking their team of teachers, like in every other organisation its always about finding the right people for the job.

Question: What do you think of linking teacher compensation to student performance (based on results in standardized tests)? Answer: I think that the students' performance (P) on standadized test is directly related to to teacher compensation (C) as follows: C directly related to P Hence C = aP ( where a is a constant) There is need to conduct research to prove or reject this theory.
Hence a = C/P Dr.
Mian Yusuf May 5, 2013 USA Time: 6:10 am

Any compensation is highly praised for any work.
So teacher compensation is related to student result which standardized of a educational organization.

It is important to link compensation to results, otherwise the system would not be promoting excellence.
In business, usually results are material.
It becomes harder to identify improvement when tested on students.
To the extent the overall performance of a class can be identified, then definitely the compensation should be linked to performance.

They cannot be linked as student performance is not all the time related to the teacher , some student's personal issues might interfere and affect the performance to a great extent .

Personally, I think linking a teachers compensation to the performance of their students on standardized test is a slippery slope that will cause more harm than good.
Teachers today undergo much pressure from parents, school boards, and the government.
Their compensation (unless they have tenure) is nothing to brag about, and in the United States is much too low for the number of hours that they put in, plus their own money they use for supplies.
Teachers are in the profession for the love of teaching children.
However, if it were to be passed that the teacher's compensation would be directly linked to standardized scores, then there would be a negative ripple effect across the nation.
Many things that would not be directly tested would be thrown out of the curriculum, even if it was important.
Examples of this would be: arts and crafts, silent reading time, music, theater, band, physical education, etc.
No longer would there be a desire for collaboration, creative thinking or imagination.
The students would be drilled on questions from the test.
The fun would be sucked out of the schools, as the focus would change to rote memorization.
Just because a child can memorize, it does not mean they are able to apply it to themselves, or that they will remember it.
This would also change the way the children learn.
There are three learning styles: visual, auditory, and kinetics (hands on).
It would become dominated by auditory.
The children that use the other two types of learning would struggle trying to make the concepts concrete and create a connection to the content.
There is also the role of children with disabilities or children that are part of the ESL population.
If compensation were linked to the test, teachers would be negatively affected because their students have personal hindrances.
This could create a begrudging attitude towards this particular population of students, where the teacher is unwilling to have them in their class.
It would not promote understanding of differences or diversity in the classroom.
The final factor that I will discuss is the corruption that directly linking standardized scores to teachers compensation would create.
Teachers might go to desperate lengths to ensure that their students have good test scores, like cheating.
This has been known to happen in high stress environments.
When a person's livelihood is at stake, a teacher might be tempted to do things that they might normally consider immoral.
This is not beneficial to the teachers, but more importantly, the students.
In essence, the students would be robbed of a fun, creative, and exciting learning experience, all for the sake of a test.

In the ever changing world of education, linking financial incentives to student performance can be an option however, setting key performance indicators across the teachers role would be more representative.
Students around the world already anticipate good marks from their teachers and therefore if teachers know that, they will inevitably increase the marks to receive their reward.
Adding KPI's such as, delivering PD sessions, lesson planning/materials etc, the use of technology for both teacher and students (what's used, how it's used, when etc) and supporting the community/parent participation are just suggestions.
As a manager these simple options would be where I'd start so then I can begin to improve the overall work of the teaching staff, then you have evidence of achievements to support the teachers in a legitimate claim for a wage increase.

I am sorry to disagree with you on linking teacher compensation to student performance.

Education has always been a very complicated process with so many factors involved. Research has proved that student performance is related to factors such as the socioeconomic status, parents' educational background, social attitudes, psychological state and mental state of mind, biological condition, personal abilities and interests, etc...Even though teachers are the most important factor in learning, but it is not the only one and we can not judge a teacher by how students perform on a span of months, when students carry with them a heavy baggage that motivate or challange a student from over many years.