Jake+Fisher

Topic: Should students get paid for good grades?

Intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation
 * Intrinsic motivation is the motivation to do something out of sheer interest in an activity itself.
 * When students are intrinsically motivated, they find their studies more enjoyable.
 * Their learning is deeper and longer lasting.
 * When confronted with an open-ended task, they are more likely to come up with a creative idea or a creative solution.
 * When students approach a school assignment with extrinsic motivation, they are engaging in that activity for some goal outside of the task — a promised reward, an impending evaluation, etc.
 * Extrinsic motivation can ensure that work gets done and that it gets done on time, it is especially detrimental to creativity.
 * Paying students to attend school or to earn high grades is neither inherently good nor inherently bad.( according to Beth Hennessey, Wellesley College)
 * Only then can we (the teachers) work to help them slowly regain their intrinsic motivation and excitement about learning.
 * Research investigations show that for this group, the expectation of a reward is bound to kill both their creativity and their excitement about learning.