Reward contingencies and the development of children's skills and self-efficacy.
Reward contingencies and the development of children's skills and self-efficacy.
This experiment tested the hypothesis that rewards offered for performance attainments during competency development promote children's arithmetic skills and percepts of self-efficacy.Children received didactic instruction in division operations and were offered rewards contingent on their actual performance, rewards for simply participating, or no rewards.Results showed that performance-contingent rewards led to …