IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/mnt/wpaper/2306.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

The Use of Innovative Incentives in the Classroom to Explore the Impact of Peer Monitoring on Academic Achievements

Author

Listed:
  • Alejandro Cid

  • José María Cabrera

Abstract

In a population of undergraduate students, we examined the impact of reciprocal peer monitoring of educational behaviors on academic performance. Reciprocal peer monitoring is a novel design of incentives that promotes peer-observing and checking the behavior of others. To distinguish the pure effect of peer monitoring from self-motivation, we also examined the effects of individual incentives on academic performance. Using a randomized controlled trial, this study showed that a jointliability incentives arrangement was more effective than the individual incentives approach to increase students’ academic performance. The results also showed that participants reported negative views of aspects of the joint-liability incentives intervention. The current procedures entailed a novel system of incentives for students that does not require tangible reinforcers and requires them to exert more effort to succeed in a course. These procedures may be characterized as an innovative insight for the design of grading policies in the classroom and other social settings.

Suggested Citation

  • Alejandro Cid & José María Cabrera, 2023. "The Use of Innovative Incentives in the Classroom to Explore the Impact of Peer Monitoring on Academic Achievements," Documentos de Trabajo/Working Papers 2306, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economia. Universidad de Montevideo..
    • Handle: RePEc:mnt:wpaper:2306
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www2.um.edu.uy/fcee_papers/2020/The_Use_of_Innovative_Incentives_in_the_Classroom_to_Explore_the_Impact_of_Peer_Monitoring_on_Academic_Achievements.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:mnt:wpaper:2306. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Juan Briozzo (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/fceumuy.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.