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I'm rarely extrinsically motivated so even though I had a cash incentive as a kid to get good grades it made no difference to me. Even if it had, the difference

• araneae 17y ago
  Not to nitpick, but they found that paying money for grades didn't work at all, probably because kids didn't actually know how to get better grades. When they paid money for reading books or good attendance, it worked well because kids knew how to accomplish those things. So you might not have gotten better grades because it wasn't clear how to do that. If your parents had paid you to do specific tasks, like completely your math homework, it might have worked better.
  • yummyfajitas 17y ago
    Actually, they paid kids to pass a reading comprehension test based on their comprehension of the books. This caused them to develop reading comprehension skills. The real difference between this and paying for standardized test scores is that the tests are smaller and more frequent. This suggests that paying for test scores might work better if the tests were smaller and more frequent. I.e., teach multiplication of 2 digit numbers and then pay students for passing a short test on multiplication.