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Peer reviewedRosswork, Sandra G. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977
In a sentence-completion task, eighty sixth-grade students were assigned specific difficult goals or general goals ("do your best"). Subjects received one of four levels of monetary incentive. Specific difficult goals produced higher performance than nonspecific across various incentive conditions, and maintained those levels when previously…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Goal Orientation, Intermediate Grades, Learning Motivation
