MIT study shows bonuses don't work when cognitive skills involved.

Posted by madfloridian in Political Videos
democraticunderground.com
Sun May 30th 2010, 01:09 PM  

In fact the (MIT) study shows that as long as the task involved only mechanical skills, bonuses worked as expected.

But once the task called for even rudimentary cognitive skills, a "larger reward led to poorer performance."

This study was not done about education, so I am just pointing out that it could so easily apply at this time when our new Secretary of Education is all about merit pay and bonuses. In fact he is so much into the merit stuff that he is for allowing private corporations to pay the teachers who can perform in the dog and pony atmosphere. 

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