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THIS STUDY examined the effects of reward structures on the ability of students to evaluate the correctness of their responses to open-ended questions in a Computer-Based Instruction (CBI) lesson. Students’ ability to evaluate responses was influenced, to some extent, by their incentive to achieve. In most instances, the evaluations of expert evaluators and students were found to correspond. However, differences between evaluations occurred when students perceive their responses as correct and evaluators evaluate them as incorrect. It was also found that the order in which the assessment items were presented affected evaluation performance.
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William J. Gibbs is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Services at Eastern Illinois University. He has worked with individuals from various academic disciplines as part of instructional design teams in the development of technology-based learning programs. His research interests include knowledge acquisition and hypermedia, learner perceptions toward multimedia applications, and instructional design.
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Gibbs, W.J. The effects of reward structure on student evaluation in a CAI lesson. J. Comput. High. Educ. 8, 29–45 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02948601
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