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Direct linkBoskovic, 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
Oah, Shezeen; Lee, Jang-Han – Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 2011
The failures of previous studies to demonstrate productivity differences across different percentages of incentive pay may be partially due to insufficient simulation fidelity. The present study compared the effects of different percentages of incentive pay using a more advanced simulation method. Three payment methods were tested: hourly,…
Descriptors: Wages, Incentives, Productivity, Reinforcement
Download full textWeatherly, Jeffrey N.; Gudding, Jennifer; Derenne, Adam – Behavior Analyst Today, 2010
Research suggests that individuals prefer self-determined reinforcers over experimenter-determined ones. The present study had 518 college students complete a delay-discounting task in which the commodity was cigarettes, a grocery store gift card, casino tokens, cash, or the choice of the four. The least amount of delay discounting was observed…
Descriptors: Delay of Gratification, Incentives, Reinforcement, College Students
Lei, Simon A. – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2010
A growing body of literature has been examined and discussed the effects of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation on student learning at the college level. Intrinsically motivated individuals have been able to develop high regards for learning various types of course information without the inclusion of external rewards or reinforcements. In…
Descriptors: Evidence, Incentives, Student Motivation, Rewards
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
Tien, Flora F. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2007
This paper aims at exploring how faculty research behaviour changes before, during, and after promotion. Testing research hypotheses generated from behavioral reinforcement theory and an alternative claim on the learning effect of familiarity with publishing norms, the study collects career history data and longitudinal records on faculty research…
Descriptors: Incentives, Reinforcement, Behavior Change, Foreign Countries
