A recent study by Carly D. Robinson, Jana Gallus, Monica G. Lee, and Todd Rogers seeks to understand the effects of awards on the attendance of individual students in the classroom setting. It is often common for organizations to offer awards as encouraging participation or attendance in a specific context, such as the classroom or a workplace. However there is little empirical data supporting the validity that these strategies effectively serve to increase participation among members of the organization. Over the past twenty years researchers and educational professionals alike have voiced…