Advanced Placement Incentive Program

Financial Incentives is a formal scheme used to promote or encourage specific actions or behaviors with cash rewards, also known as pay for performance. Even though It will make this generation greedy, The reward you get for your hard work is great because It’s a great source of motivation and It is highly liked by students, teachers and parents. These programs are also called advanced placement Incentive Programs which only gives rewards to those taking and passing AP classes.
The Advanced Placement Incentive Program is thought to make kids greedy as said by those who oppose it and in this research There has been have multiple sources that tell me otherwise. As said by Kirabo Jackson “the incentive program produce meaningful increases in participation
Do this so they can learn to appreciate the hard work they do and start to build a good work ethic and will strive to have a good work ethic the rest of their working lives. The cash rewards will be offered to 11th and 12th graders because of their maturity and they have more of a use for cash than 9th and 10th graders. The teachers even get rewarded for their kids passing and having good grades while enrolled with the APIP program. This encourages the teacher and their students to have good connections which will lead to better behavior problems and better communication skills. As said by Kirabo Jackson “Establishment of APIP results in 30 percent increase in the number of students scoring above 1100 on the SAT and above 24 on the ACT.”(Jackson). Jackson just said that this program does increase our kids intelligence levels.
Sometimes cash rewards are not the only reward to be used for cash incentives. There are multiple ideas out there that does not involve money or trophies as a reward. And it does not have to be in an Advanced Placement program to get
As found by Lisa Guernsey, “If we're using gimmicks like rewards to try to improve achievement without regard to how they affect kids desire to learn...we kill the goose that laid the golden egg.”(Guernsey). What Lisa was trying to say is that rewards will only ruin the work ethic of students and it would be doing more harm than good just to see a grade improvement in high school.
What little these people know is that the program and getting this kids to stay on the right track is actually the connections the students make with their parents, friends, family and most importantly teachers. As said by William Harms, “The failure to recognize this connection potentially leads to dramatic under investment.”(Harms). He further elaborates that if students fail to apply themselves then the administrators will fail to see their full potential unless administrators can get kids to want to work and build the proper work