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The Effects Of A Performance-Management Procedure On High School Students With Poor Academic Achievement, Thomas R. Harwood
The Effects Of A Performance-Management Procedure On High School Students With Poor Academic Achievement, Thomas R. Harwood
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This study evaluated the effectiveness of contracting for all classes and the contigent presentation of incentives for school work completed. fifteen high school students who earned a grade point average below 1.5 (on a 4.0 scale) volunteered for the contracting classroom. The subjects were ranked and randomly assigned to the first experimental group, the second experimental group, or the control group. The first experimental group had incentives contingent upon contracts completed, the second experimental group received the incentive noncontigent upon contract completion, and the control group did not attend the contract completion, and the control group did not attend the …