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Pupils' progress: how children's perceptions influence their efforts

Amine Ouazad and Lionel Page


What is the impact of a pupil's perceptions of how their teachers will treat them on their motivation, efforts and educational achievements? To explore this question, Amine Ouazad and Lionel Page have conducted an experiment in which school children could use pocket money to place small bets on their performance in an exam.


16 February 2012     Paper Number CEPCP359

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This CentrePiece article is published under the centre's Education programme.