Then the students who scored under 70 the first time would have no incentive to do well, and might score worse on average the second time.

The students just over 70, on the other hand, would have a strong incentive to study and concentrate while taking the test.

Hinderaker's development of innovative programs in business administration and biomedical sciences created incentive for enough students to enroll at Riverside to keep the campus open.

Self-determination theory focuses on the degree to which an individual ’ s behaviour is self-motivated and self-determined .” Therefore, when students are given the opportunity to gauge their learning, learning becomes an incentive.

In 2003, the NC Legislature approved a bill granting tuition costs for any university in the University of North Carolina System to all graduates of NCSSM, starting with the class of 2004, as an incentive to encourage NCSSM's talented students to stay in North Carolina.

We have already experienced the effect of the financial incentive given to students in England in that the number of applicants have decreased this year.

Graduate students can get paid if they qualify for the incentive but competition is extremely fierce.

Moreover, a single-family home can be converted into several smaller rental units, or shared by a number of students whose combined resources exceed those of a typical single-family rental — a strong incentive for absentee landlords to cater to students.

The Foundation has sought to identify strategies to lift the performance of U. S. schools through its support of work on incentive programs for students and performance pay for teachers.

Merit-based aid even poses an incentive for students, especially those coming from low-income backgrounds, to achieve higher grades in school in order to be awarded the financial aid that they seek.

This created the incentive to let poorly performing students drop out, since this would increase a school's average test scores.

( 2011 ) found that the law created a perverse incentive for students to transfer to a high school with lower-achieving peers, in order to graduate in that school's top percent.

Moderate tuition fees were introduced in 2001, which are supposed to create a small incentive for students to graduate more quickly.

He further noted that when surveyed, " students opposed any practice that created incentive to compete for grades rather than for learning's sake.

The program is a major financial incentive for students who receive their commissions early and serve as officers while still attending college and gaining service time for promotions and retirement.

With the added incentive of a MOE subsidy of up to 40 % for its students introduced in 2008, UniSIM has seen a substantial jump in its enrolment.

Usually, there is some incentive to encourage students to reach the school goal, such as a day off or a shortened day.

* Commercial bias: A further controversy surrounds the fact that commercial legal practices are far more likely to be able to provide financial sponsorship for the LPC, this means that students from disadvantaged backgrounds have a strong financial incentive not to go into legal aid work such as crime, family and civil liberties-as legal aid firms cannot afford to sponsor the LPC.

This provided Cary with enough incentive to resign from the Nigerian service and he and Gertrude found a house in Oxford on Parks Road opposite the University Parks ( now with a blue plaque ) for their growing family.

This is an incentive for the student to perform well during the placement as it helps with two otherwise unwelcome stresses: the lack of money in the final year, and finding a job when the University course ends.

A defense attorney often receives a flat fee or in any event will not receive enough additional money if he goes to trial to cover the costs of doing so ; this can create an incentive to plea bargain, even at the expense of the defense attorney's client's interests.

" Physicians in geographic Health Professional Shortage Areas ( HPSAs ) and Physician Scarcity Areas ( PSAs ) can receive incentive payments from Medicare.

As firms do not receive the full benefit from reducing their prices their incentive to adjust prices in response to macroeconomic events is reduced.

Additionally, several measures were taken to increase the demand for EVs in Portugal: ( 1 ) EVs are fully exempt from both the Vehicle Tax due upon purchase ( Imposto Sobre Veículos ) and the annual Circulation Tax ( Imposto Único de Circulação ); ( 2 ) Personal Income Tax provides an allowance of EUR 803 upon the purchase of EVs ; ( 3 ) EVs are fully exempt from the 5 %- 10 % company car tax rates which are part of the Corporation Income Tax ; ( 4 ) The Budget Law provides for an increase of the depreciation costs related to the purchase of EVs for the purpose of Corporation Income Tax ; ( 5 ) the first 5, 000 EVs to be sold in Portugal will receive a 5, 000 € incentive fund, and the Cash-for-Clunkers program grants an additional 1, 500 € fund if an internal combustion engine vehicle built before 2000 is delivered when acquiring the new EV ; ( 6 ) The Portuguese State did also commit to play a pedagogic role and defined that EVs will have a 20 % share of the annual renewal of public car fleet, starting in 2011.

This is done to avoid creating incentive traps, where earning more might actually decrease your income ( e. g., if income up to 10, 000 is untaxed and after 10, 001 you pay 10 %, you will receive 9, 000. 90 if you make 10, 001 and 10, 000 if you make 10, 000 ).

Blue Crush was the first film to use Hawaii ’ s Act 221, a progressive local tax incentive that called for a 100 percent state tax credit for high-tech investments meeting the requirements for qualified high-tech business, while also allowing local investors to receive tax credits for investments in film or television productions.

Investors in these mutuals would receive shares in the new public companies, usually distributed at a flat rate, thus equally benefiting small and large investors, and providing a broad incentive for members to vote for conversion-advocating leadership candidates.

Thus, the person making the division has an incentive to divide as fairly as possible: for if they do not, they will likely receive an undesirable portion.

Courty and Marshke ( 1997 ) provide evidence on incentive contracts offered to agencies, which receive bonuses on reaching a quota of graduated trainees within a year.

Donors receive an incentive in form of a token present.

Nintendo also introduced a new incentive promotional offer that involves the registration of three Nintendo ( or Nintendo affiliated ) products through Nintendo. com to receive a free three issue trial subscription to Nintendo Power.

It also reported that Ore had, as of November 3, received only about half of the money and that she would receive the other half after the November 7 election, giving Ore " a powerful incentive for her to keep quiet until after Election Day.

Agents who sell Universal Life Insurance often receive commissions equal to the first year of target premiums providing an incentive to sell these policies over other less expensive term life insurance policies.

Conservation of Mpingo and its natural habitat can be achieved by ensuring that local people living in mpingo harvesting areas receive a fair share of the revenue created, thus providing them with an incentive to manage the habitat in an environmentally friendly manner.

Boston did not receive a clean water act waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency, leaving Boston with little incentive to increase water quality of the harbor.

Indirectly, since the Shield winner earns a CCL berth, this marked the first time in league history that the Supporters ' Shield winner would receive some type of financial incentive for winning the regular season title.

Thus, one incentive for banks to create securitized assets is to remove risky assets from their balance sheet by having another institution assume the credit risk, so that they ( the banks ) receive cash in return.

" nly pure, spontaneous do-gooders " can receive the medal ; parents, professional lifesavers or lifeguards, and others with an incentive to perform the rescue are ineligible.

Other countries, whose contributions into the budget are not affected by funds they receive back, have no incentive to moderate their requests for funds.

Critics of socialism have argued that in any society where everyone holds equal wealth there can be no material incentive to work, because one does not receive rewards for a work well done.

When previously the incentive was only to enjoy the task itself ( akin to play ), introducing a financial incentive causes the task's participants to shift to a different frame of mind in which they perceive that they are performing the task in order to receive the financial reward instead ( akin to work ).

Pluthero is expecting to receive a Bonus in excess of £ 10m as incentive from Shareholders in Summer 2009.