Enhancing and Undermining Intrinsic Motivation: The Effects of Task-Involving and Ego-Involving Evaluation on Interest and Performance.

Butler, Ruth

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Publication Date: 1988

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Enhancing and Undermining Intrinsic Motivation: The Effects of Task-Involving and Ego-Involving Evaluation on Interest and Performance.

Butler, Ruth

British Journal of Educational Psychology, v58 pt1 p1-14 Feb 1988

Describes study of fifth and sixth grade Jewish Israeli students that tested the hypothesis that intrinsic motivation will be differentially affected by task-involving and ego-involving evaluation. Three feedback conditions involving grades and individual comments are explained, and results are discussed in terms of student interest and performance. (30 references) (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Developed Nations, Feedback, Foreign Countries, Grades (Scholastic), Hypothesis Testing, Intermediate Grades, Learning Processes, Pretests Posttests, Psychological Studies, Questionnaires, Rewards, Student Attitudes, Student Evaluation

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Israel

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