Comment on Defeating Ugh Fields In Practice

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:28:22 GMT

Reward grades more and students will respond. The fact that we are so worried about small amounts of money causing large distortions in behavior is a sign of how powerful we expect this incentive to be. If maximizing your grades is not a good way to learn then that is a sign we need to be evaluating students on a different metric, presumably one that rewards difficulty.

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