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ERIC ED106467: Incentive Motivation Techniques Evaluation in Air Fo... |
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The report describes an 18-month research project at |
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Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois, designed to evaluate |
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the effectiveness of inceptive motivation techniques in |
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Air Force technical training. The first phase of the |
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research identified incentives. The findings were used in |
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the second phase of the research which made these |
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incentives contingent on performance in two of the |
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resident training courses at the base. The first system |
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gave performance based incentives in the courses. The |
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second utilized a system that attempted to give effort |
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based incentives, while the third used financially based |
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incentives. Research results indicated that while |
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secondary performance measures such as amount of remedial |
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instruction, frequency of probations, and frequency of |
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course failures decreased under the incentive program, |
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the primary performance measures of exam scores and speed |
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of course completion did not generally show much |
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improvement. Yet, from a cost-effectiveness viewpoint, |
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even the relatively small (i.e., 8 percent) increase in |
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speed of course completion was meaningful. Attitudes to |
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the program generally improved or stayed the same. The |
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financially based incentive system was found to be the |
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most cost-effective for Air Force technical training. A |
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150-page appendix provides background information, |
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incentive attractiveness data, questionnaires, manuals, |
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and item statistics. (Author/MW) |
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Date Published: 2015-05-24 10:54:11 |
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Identifier: ERIC_ED106467 |
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Item Size: 219118079 |
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Language: english |
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Media Type: texts |
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