Giving University Students Incentives to Do Homework Improves Their Performance

Autor/inn/en	Radhakrishnan, Phanikiran; Lam, Dianne; Ho, Geoffrey
Titel	Giving University Students Incentives to Do Homework Improves Their Performance
Quelle	In: Journal of Instructional Psychology, 36 (2009) 3, S.219-225 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0094-1956
Schlagwörter	Homework; Academic Achievement; Incentives; College Students; Student Motivation; Psychology; Measures (Individuals) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hausaufgabe; Schulleistung; Anreiz; Collegestudent; Schulische Motivation; Psychologie; Messdaten
Abstract	Past research has focused on either the positive influence of incentives on homework completion (Cullen, Cullen, Hayhow, & Plouffe, 1975) or the positive influence of homework completion on academic performance (Cooper, Robinson, & Patall, 2006). Our study is one of the first to integrate these two streams of research to examine whether higher amounts of incentives to do homework increases academic performance. In a quasi-experimental field study, we show that university students who had a higher incentive to complete homework (n = 66) performed significantly better than those who had a lower incentive to do so (n = 135). We highlight how important it is to use incentives to do homework as a motivational tool to encourage university students to complete their homework (i.e., out-of-class practice) to improve their performance. (Contains 1 endnote and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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