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Sherman, Lawrence W.; Zimmerman, Deborah – 1986
The reward structure of a classroom refers to the means by which a teacher motivates students to perform school tasks. This document reports on a study in which academic achievement in competitive and reward-structured environments was examined in two high school sophomore level biology classes of equal academic ability. Each class was pretested…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, Cognitive Style, Competition