Yes, yes, yes! In many current societies & education systems, we spend years telling kids "no, no, no" to the things they want to do/are driven to do, and then express horror & dismay when, in their teens, kids have no idea what they want to do & seemingly no motivation to do anything.
Another meta-analysis found that rewards only decrease internal motivation if it is an activity that the child is already highly interested in or finds very enjoyable (Cameron, Banko, & Pierce, 2001).
Research suggests that rewards may even increase children’s intrinsic motivation. For example, one study found that college students show increased intrinsic motivation when given rewards based on their performance (Cameron, Pierce, Banko, & Gear, 2005). Another study found that children showed an increased intrinsic motivation to eat healthy after being given rewards for healthy eating (Loewenstein, Price, & Volpp, 2016).
In addition, parenting training programs that use rewards have been found to have significant positive and long-lasting impacts on child behavior (Long, Forehand, Wierson, & Morgan, 1994) and the parent-child relationship (Wiggins, Sofronoff, & Sanders, 2009).
School is all about extrinsic rewards (I call them bribes), but kids still hate school. Rewards cannot overcome their resistance to learning things they're not interested in.
This doesn't sound right to me at all. I've worked with kids for many years and in many contexts, and I know from their experience as well as mine as a kid that school is all about superficial rewards, and kids hate school! Obviously they hate it for many reasons, but my point is that the countless rewards school leans on (I call them bribes) don't manage to overcome any of this hate.
Yes, yes, yes! In many current societies & education systems, we spend years telling kids "no, no, no" to the things they want to do/are driven to do, and then express horror & dismay when, in their teens, kids have no idea what they want to do & seemingly no motivation to do anything.
Another meta-analysis found that rewards only decrease internal motivation if it is an activity that the child is already highly interested in or finds very enjoyable (Cameron, Banko, & Pierce, 2001).
Research suggests that rewards may even increase children’s intrinsic motivation. For example, one study found that college students show increased intrinsic motivation when given rewards based on their performance (Cameron, Pierce, Banko, & Gear, 2005). Another study found that children showed an increased intrinsic motivation to eat healthy after being given rewards for healthy eating (Loewenstein, Price, & Volpp, 2016).
In addition, parenting training programs that use rewards have been found to have significant positive and long-lasting impacts on child behavior (Long, Forehand, Wierson, & Morgan, 1994) and the parent-child relationship (Wiggins, Sofronoff, & Sanders, 2009).
School is all about extrinsic rewards (I call them bribes), but kids still hate school. Rewards cannot overcome their resistance to learning things they're not interested in.
This doesn't sound right to me at all. I've worked with kids for many years and in many contexts, and I know from their experience as well as mine as a kid that school is all about superficial rewards, and kids hate school! Obviously they hate it for many reasons, but my point is that the countless rewards school leans on (I call them bribes) don't manage to overcome any of this hate.