Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence From Field Experiments

Will college students who set goals work harder and perform better? We report two field experiments that involved four thousand college students. One experiment asked treated students to set goals for performance in the course; the other asked treated students to set goals for a particular task (com...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The review of economics and statistics 2020-10, Vol.102 (4), p.648-663
Hauptverfasser:	Clark, Damon, Gill, David, Prowse, Victoria, Rush, Mark
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	College students Objectives Task completion Tests
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