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Tuckman, Bruce W. – 1996
This report compares two approaches to incentive motivation in 82 college juniors and seniors, average age 21 years. One method uses will as a motivator; the other method focuses on skill or effective strategy use for enhancing recall and understanding of a particular body of information. In the first approach, a semiweekly test or spotquiz was…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Goal Orientation, Higher Education, Incentives