Summary: This article focuses on the topic of extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation. Several schools are used as examples where the rewards system was changed to an intrinsic system and the resulting benefits that this provided to the schools in terms of character education.
Source: Linda Flanagan, KQED News, August 29, 2017
“Handing out colored bracelets and upbeat stickers when students behave well seems like an effective strategy for encouraging civility. Little prizes and public praise would seem to encourage honesty, generosity and other marks of good character, and for years schools have relied on such rewards to elicit the behavior they desire in their students….But a substantial body of social science research going back decades has concluded that giving rewards for certain types of behavior is not only futile but harmful.”
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