Teacher Effort Allocation Simulator

A teacher has a fixed budget of instructional effort (e.g., hours of individualized attention per week) to allocate across students. Each student has a prior-year test score and a marginal product of effort that determines how much their score improves per unit of effort received. How should the teacher allocate effort?

The answer depends on the accountability regime. Different metrics — fraction proficient, average score, and student growth — create very different incentives for where to direct effort. Select a regime below to explore.