{"id":672,"date":"2007-06-08T21:42:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T05:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/ross\/2007\/06\/08\/bribes-for-tests-scores\/"},"modified":"2007-06-08T21:42:53","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T05:42:53","slug":"bribes-for-tests-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2007\/06\/bribes-for-tests-scores\/","title":{"rendered":"Bribes for Tests Scores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sandra Mathison critiqued the &#8220;bribes for tests&#8221; strategies in US schools a couple of years back in <a href=\"http:\/\/zmagsite.zmag.org\/Aug2003\/mathison0803.html\"><em>Z Magazine<\/em><\/a> where she wrote: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It remains common nonsense that extrinsic rewards lead to internal motivation. Indeed much research has demonstrated the deleterious effects of extrinsic rewards on motivation. Over the years, psychologists Edward Deci and Richard Ryan have repeatedly demonstrated this and recently their work points to the likelihood that using state tests for motivational purposes will likely lead to poorer education overall. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, unfortunately, it looks like the bribes for test strategy is gaining some serious traction in New York City as the Mayor Bloomberg and the school chancellor Joel Klein are considering a plan that would <a href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/mem\/tnt.html?emc=tnt&amp;tntget=2007\/06\/09\/nyregion\/09schools.html&amp;tntemail1=y\">pay students cash for high scores on standardized tests.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandra Mathison critiqued the &#8220;bribes for tests&#8221; strategies in US schools a couple of years back in Z Magazine where she wrote: It remains common nonsense that extrinsic rewards lead to internal motivation. Indeed much research has demonstrated the deleterious effects of extrinsic rewards on motivation. Over the years, psychologists Edward Deci and Richard Ryan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}