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Bookmark or Share- Punished by Rewards - (Book) - Alfie KohnDrawing from hundreds of studies, Kohn demonstrates that people actually do inferior work when they are enticed with money, grades, or other incentives. Programs that use rewards to change people’s behavior are similarly ineffective over the long run.
- Kohn, Alfie 1957– | Encyclopedia.comSIDELIGHTS: Author, educator, and journalist Alfie Kohn is an educational reformer whose ideas on how to change and improve the American system of education and rewards is contained in his many books on schooling, incentives, discipline, and parenting.
- Home - Alfie KohnAlfie Kohn. Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. The author of fourteen books and hundreds of articles, he lectures at education conferences and universities as well as to parent groups and corporations. Kohn’s criticisms of competition and rewards have been widely discussed and debated, and he has ...
- Alfie Kohn - WikipediaAlfie Kohn (born October 15, 1957) is an American author and lecturer in the areas of education, parenting, and human behavior. He is a proponent of progressive education and has offered critiques of many traditional aspects of parenting, managing, and American society more generally, drawing in each case from social science research.
- The Case Against Grades (##) - Alfie KohnAs I’ve reported elsewhere (Kohn, 1999a, 1999b, 1999c), when students from elementary school to college who are led to focus on grades are compared with those who aren’t, the results support three robust conclusions: * Grades tend to diminish students’ interest in whatever they’re learning.
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