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Alfie Kohn: “It’s bad news if students are motivated to get A’s”
Author: Alfie Kohn
Year: 2009
This is a clip from Alfie Kohn's DVD: "NO GRADES + NO HOMEWORK = BETTER LEARNING" (http://www.alfiekohn.org). In this short clip, Kohn discusses the grave implications of rewarding students for getting good grades. Research and analysis shows definitively that rewarding students for good grades stifles students' intrinsic desires to learn, and motivates their desires to get good grades for the sake of being rewarded.
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