Date of Award
2019
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Leadership Studies
Abstract
Achievementgaps between low-income and minority students and their counterparts are among the most pressing education policy issues today. Cash incentivization to students has gained momentum as a potential remedy to reduce disparities in studentachievementoutcomes. Grading incentive schemes function identically as objections to cash-incentives positioning both within the broader carrot-stick motivation model. Rather than eliminate the widely used grading scheme, however, I conclude that efforts should be redirected towards reducing the saliency of standardized evaluative benchmarks to which incentives are aimed as opposed to reforming the incentives themselves which I refer to as the Revisionary Proposal.
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Michael, "Re-imagining student achievement : the egalitarian failure of the carrot-stick model in K-12 public education" (2019). Honors Theses. 1422.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/honors-theses/1422