Student choice leads to better performance.
Mizner and Williams from the University of Tennessee published an article in Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions where they have investigated 29 experiments within 26 publications of the effect of student choices on academic performance.
They found that these studies showed that where the students could influence and make choices on performance goals and standards, the nature of assignments, instructional support within assignments and/or rewards for academic performance they showed better academic performance. These results is for students with significant cognitive or behavioral problems where 80% of the participants showed better performance, but for general education students in only 12 % of the experiments.
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