Alfie Kohn
Impact in
- Education top 0.5%
- Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- Student Assessment and Feedback
- Parental Involvement in Education
- School Choice and Performance
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- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
Papers in
- Education 20
- Values and Moral Education 6
- Diverse Education Studies and Reforms 5
- Education Methods and Practices 4
- Parental Involvement in Education 3
- Student Assessment and Feedback 3
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- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports 3
Alfie Kohn
68 papers receiving 2.8k citations
Alfie Kohn's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 136
- Education 1.8k
- Developmental and Educational Psychology 622
- Safety Research 333
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 371
- Social Psychology 692
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All Works
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| # | Work | ||
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| 1 | Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A'S, Praise, and Other Bribes Hit paper breakdown → | 1999 | 706 |
| 2 | No Contest: The Case against Competition Hit paper breakdown → | 1988 | 679 |
| 3 | Why incentive plans cannot work | 1993 | 408 |
| 4 | Punished by Rewards | 1993 | 268 |
| 5 | The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools | 2000 | 217 |
| 6 | The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards" | 1999 | 167 |
| 7 | 2001 | 132 | |
| 8 | How Not to Teach Values A Critical Look at Character Education | 1997 | 90 |
| 9 | Choices for Children: Why and How to Let Students Decide. | 1993 | 90 |
| 10 | Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment | 2006 | 62 |
| 11 | 1996 | 60 | |
| 12 | 1998 | 57 | |
| 13 | Fighting the Tests: A Practical Guide to Rescuing Our Schools. | 2001 | 56 |
| 14 | Caring Kids: The Role of the School. | 1991 | 55 |
| 15 | The Truth about Self-Esteem. | 1994 | 54 |
| 16 | 2006 | 50 | |
| 17 | 1994 | 45 | |
| 18 | The Trouble with Rubrics | 2006 | 42 |
| 19 | The Brighter Side of Human Nature | 1990 | 42 |
| 20 | 1992 | 41 |
About Alfie Kohn
Alfie Kohn is a scholar working on Education, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Safety Research, having authored 77 papers that have together received 3.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Values and Moral Education (6 papers), Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (5 papers), Education Methods and Practices (4 papers), Diverse Educational Innovations Studies (3 papers), Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports (3 papers), Parental Involvement in Education (3 papers), Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (3 papers) and Student Assessment and Feedback (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Education (1.8k citations), Developmental and Educational Psychology (622 citations), Safety Research (333 citations), Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (371 citations) and Social Psychology (692 citations). Alfie Kohn has collaborated with scholars based in United States. Frequent co-authors include J. Scott Armstrong and Jeffrey Pfeffer. Their work appears in journals such as Phi Delta Kappan, Educational leadership, Review of Educational Research, Harvard business review and Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education.
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