This paper studies the effect of providing feedback to college students on their position in the grade distribution by … absence of treatment, students' underestimate their position in the grade distribution. The treatment significantly improves … the students' self-assessment. We find that treated students experience a significant decrease in their educational …

three tasks, from boring to interesting. In addition, for half of the students, mission motivation is present: their effort …. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly more effort than mission …-based motivation. Moreover, in the presence of significant task motivation, mission motivation has no additional effect on effort. The …