Professor Springer’s research interests involve educational policy issues, with a particular focus on the impact of policy on resource allocation decisions and student outcomes. His current research includes studies of the impact of performance-based incentives on student achievement and teacher turnover, mobility, and quality; the impact of educator evaluation systems on educator outcomes; and the strategic resource allocation decision-making of schools in response to school accountability programs. Professor Springer previously served as principal investigator for the Project on Incentives in Teaching (POINT) experiment in Metro Nashville Public Schools (TN), the Team Performance Incentives (TPI) experiment in Round Rock (TX), and Director of Tennessee Consortium on Research, Evaluation, and Development.