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Boskovic, Irena – Educational Psychology, 2020
The educational system today often relies on incentives in order to motivate students. However, it might also encourage students to engage in deceptive behaviour (e.g. malingering) in order to reach certain benefits. Hereby, we investigated whether students would intentionally fabricate symptoms (i.e. malinger) when confronted with a…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Behavior, Deception, Physical Health
Gardiner, Steve – Phi Delta Kappan, 2014
While it may seem almost intuitive that offering rewards to students will yield better results, that is not how it works; the result often is the opposite. The paradox of rewards is that their effect often has a limited impact on students, who then will lose curiosity; it also makes them feel as if they are being controlled--a negative motivating…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Motivation Techniques, Rewards, Incentives
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Docan, Tony N. – Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2006
This study examined how particular grading systems motivate students. Since competency-based grading and point systems are most prevalent (Hendrickson and Gable, 1999), the current study is modeled around these systems. The grading systems used for this study were divided into two categories and defined as those students who earned their grades…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Student Motivation, Grading, Rewards