Thesis: High school students should not be rewarded because rewards cannot improve students’ attitude and performance, the rewards systems are unfair, and rewards cannot motivate students in long term. Topic sentences : Receiving rewards will not improve students’ attitude because rewards reduce the enthusiasm of the learning. A. Jennifer Medina is the author of “Next Question: Can Students Be Paid to Excel? “, she talk about teachers noticed students have better attitude when they rewarded for studying.
She states on her article, “During the school’s recent winter break, dozens of students showed up for extra tutoring to prepare” (Medina 126). Rewards can motivate some students, they look for some extra resources to help them get the rewards easily. B. Amanda Ripley wrote “Should Kids be Bribed to do Well in School? “, she Introduces several deferent Incentive programs. The students who received rewards in New York City were excited, when the researcher interview them, their answers are not what we expected.
Fryer says, ” No one said they were going to stay after class and talk to the teacher” (Ripley 133). Rewards may motivate students to go to school more, but cannot to control students’ grades. Rewards cannot teach students how to solving problems and any thought about learning. C. Lisa Guernsey wrote an article “Rewards for Students under a Microscope”, she points out the Journal “Literacy Research and Instruction” which published by Dry. Marinas and Linda B. Gambler’, “A number of the kids who received tokens didn’t even return to reading at all”(Guernsey 138). Wards can only motivate students read book in a short term, but can not make reading as a habit. Topic sentences: Students should not be rewarded since rewards do not improve students’ performance. A. Psychologists are disagree rewarding students, she states, “Psychologists warn that money can actually make kids perform worse by cheapening the act of learning” (Ripley 129). Adults always want students do everything what they want, and they use rewards to motivate students.
The adult pressure make students lose the interest In learning. Nevertheless, according to Fryer’s results, Kilos Witt a nelsons AT serious Demoniacal problems saw the biggest gains in test scores overall, the equivalent of five additional months of schooling” (134) c. According to Ripley, “they can control their attendance; they cannot necessarily control their test scores”(134). Rewards may motivate some students to show up in school, but rewards can not teach students how to improve their grades and study skills.
Topic sentences: Since the rewards systems are unfair, students should not be awarded. A. Dry. Decide defined, “When they go home with a smaller payout while seeing other students receive checks for $500, Dry. Decide said, they may feel unfairly punished and even less excited to go to school” (139). Some students with learning disabilities got less back money back home, they may feel self-abased because they are not as well as other students, and they may not want to go to school school anymore.
It is unfair for students who have learning disabilities got less money than other people, they pent more time and energy than other students, so I think they should get more money. B. “And at least one think-tank scholar has denounced the strategy as racist” (129) Topic sentences: Students should not be rewarded for they do not motivated by rewards in long term. A. Example of Ethan. B. Example of kids’ drawing. C. “Decide has found that money -like other tangible rewards-?does not work very well to motivate people over the long term, particularly for tasks that involve creativity’ (131)
