Spring 2008 Teacher Survey
TEEG Cycle 1 ONLY

Dear Teacher,

The National Center on Performance Incentives (NCPI), under contract with the Texas Education Agency (TEA), is conducting an on-going evaluation of the Texas Educator Excellence Grant (TEEG) program. This survey will collect information from full-time instructional personnel about their attitudes toward performance-based incentives, their school environment, and their teaching practices.

We recognize that you are employed in a school that participated in TEEG during the 2006-07 school year (Cycle 1) and, therefore, you may have filled out a similar survey during the spring 2007. We ask that you again participate in this spring 2008 survey. Gathering teacher feedback over time will enable us to better understand teachers' experiences more fully. Please note that it is okay if your answers have changed from last school year. We ask that you not try to remember how you responded last time in order to answer the same way again; rather, please indicate how you feel now. If this is your first opportunity to participate in this survey effort, we encourage you to respond at this time.

We want to survey all staff who are directly involved in delivering instruction, such as classroom teachers, instructional aides, instructional specialists, and instructional coaches. Therefore, when we state that this survey should be completed by all "full-time instructional personnel", we say so with the following definition in mind.

(1) A classroom teacher who teaches an average of four or more hours per day in an academic or career and technology setting focusing on the delivery of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).
(2) The term also includes teachers' assistants/instructional aides, instructional coaches and specialists directly involved in delivering instruction.
(3) Permanent substitutes can be included as survey respondents if they meet the above requirements of four or more hours per day of instructional work in an academic or career and technology setting focusing on the delivery of the TEKS.

We appreciate your contribution to this study and believe your feedback will provide important insight regarding the issues addressed by this survey. We remind you that this survey is voluntary and that all information collected from and about campus personnel will remain confidential. No identifying information will be included in published reports on this project.

For general questions about TEEG or the overall evaluation,
Andrew Moellmer (TEA)
(512) 936-6503
programeval@tea.state.tx.us

Jessica Lewis (NCPI)
(615) 322-5622
jessica.l.lewis@vanderbilt.edu

For questions about technical problems completing this survey,
Omar Lopez (NCPI)
teeg@cpse-k16.com

Our estimate for completing the survey is approximately 20 minutes. Please note that there is no online option to save your responses and resume later where you left off. Therefore, we have provided a copy of the survey questions for your use as worksheets to facilitate the online survey process. To view or print the survey worksheets, click on the following link: TEEGTSCY1_Spr2008.

To begin the survey, proceed by pressing the “Next” button shown below.