Express your views either for or against the statement prizes give a pupil the incentive to improve his grades. In 350 - 400 words...pls
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Explanation:
Success in school, university and the labor market is still closely associated with one’s parents’ education and income. So the education system plays a central role in promoting equality of opportunity and social mobility.
But what difference do incentives make? How can we encourage students from a disadvantaged background to work harder, so that they can improve their grades and have a better chance of going to college, or of completing high-quality vocational training that will open the door to a promising future? Can money motivate students to do better in school?
A team of British and American researchers recently found some answers to these questions. To investigate the impact of monetary as well as non-monetary incentives, Simon Burgess of the University of Bristol, Robert Metcalfe of the University of Chicago and Sally Sadoff of UC San Diego conducted a study of some 10,000 students in the final year of their schooling. The study included a total of 63 English schools, all of which were located in disadvantaged districts. The researchers’ findings were published in 2016 in a paper entitled “Understanding the Response to Financial and Non-Financial Incentives in Education: Field Experiment Evidence Using High-Stakes Assessment.”