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The Effects Of Two Motivational Factors On Accuracy And Persistence For Second Graders, Jesse D. Baker
The Effects Of Two Motivational Factors On Accuracy And Persistence For Second Graders, Jesse D. Baker
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Promoting and maintaining motivation in elementary students is an ongoing problem. This study hypothesized that (a) feedback has a greater motivational effect on persistence and on accuracy for second graders than does no feedback, and (b) knowledge of results feedback has a greater motivational effect than does pleasant feeling tone feedback. Evidence from the study showed mixed support for the hypotheses.
The study compared two forms of feedback and the absence of feedback. One group received praise in the form of general, positive statements—classified as feeling tone—about their work while completing mathematics computational portions of the second grade 1989 Stanford …