Katherine M. Banko
Katherine Banko is the co-author, with Judy Cameron and W. David Pierce, of "Pervasive negative effects of rewards on intrinsic motivation: the myth continues", published in The Behavior Analyst in 2001. The paper lists her with the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta.
Who they are
This site draws on the 2001 paper only.
This page records only what the papers and their published records state. Biography beyond the cited work is not given here.
Key papers
Pervasive negative effects of rewards on intrinsic motivation: the myth continues (2001), with Cameron and Pierce. Rewards for low-interest tasks increased free-choice intrinsic motivation. On high-interest tasks, negative effects appeared when rewards were tangible, expected and loosely tied to level of performance.
Key ideas
The central idea is that whether a reward helps or harms depends on the task and the reward. A stamp card for a routine purchase is the low-interest case, where reward helps. Payment for something people already enjoy, given regardless of how well they do it, is the case where harm appears.
Sources
- Cameron, J., Banko, K. M., & Pierce, W. D. (2001). Pervasive negative effects of rewards on intrinsic motivation: the myth continues. The Behavior Analyst, 24(1), 1-44. doi:10.1007/BF03392017