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Re:Student rating app penalizes fifth-graders who need bathr... by onion2k on Saturday September 28, 2019 @05:11PM (#21102900)
The 'benefit' is that it makes teachers jobs easier. If kids actively want to win points they'll conform to any behaviours defined to get them more points. There is no benefit to the kids or the parents.
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Re:Student rating app penalizes fifth-graders who need bathr... by reaperducer on Saturday September 28, 2019 @06:26PM (#21103341)
If kids actively want to win points they'll conform to any behaviours defined to get them more points.

I guess with no more erasers to clap, this is how we keep kids in line?

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Re:Student rating app penalizes fifth-graders who need bathr... by RHSeeger on Saturday September 28, 2019 @08:46PM (#21104183)
If it's aimed at kids behaving well in order to earn points (strive for a positive) rather than doing it in order to avoid punishment, than it sounds like a good idea to me. Everything I'd seen indicates that positive reinforcement works much better than negative.
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Re:Student rating app penalizes fifth-graders who need bathr... by droithomme on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @08:50PM (#21132479)
Quivering in fear of punishment, and thus being motivated by avoidance of punishment, is the very definition of negative reinforcement. Fear of punishment is not positive reinforcement as you are claiming in your comment. Motivation by fear of punishment is negative reinforcement. That's how negative reinforcement works.
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