The term incentive is used in education to describe both the incentive device and the attitude produced by it. Incentives are artificial devices introduced into methods of teaching for the purpose of stimulating and directing the activity of the learner. Incentives are the means employed to evoke attitudes conducive to learning. The stimulus that gives rise to a motive is called incentive. While motives are internal urges to reaction, incentives are external. They are essentially the environment arrangements of stimuli designed to cause pupils to react more vigorously than they would without these additional stimuli. Incentives vary according to the sex, brightness, and dullness, and age of the learner. Devices used to stimulate first graders will not appeal to high school students. Similarly, bright and dull pupils, for example, differ in their response to praise and blame.

By: Dorothy D. Pingol | Teacher I | Capitangan Elementary School