Volume 3, Edition 9 – Crafting Effective Incentives

Welcome to this edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing best practices for creating incentives.

Many teachers use external incentives as a regular part of their classrooms, in conjunction with promoting intrinsic motivation. In an working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a group of researchers report on a series of experiments designed to look into what makes incentives the most effective at increasing student motivation.

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