There's lots to be said for gamefied learning that garners the interest of the child-student; much of it is critical.

While the adult pupils might have felt infantilized at first, the sats system emboldened some of them to try where they hadn't been otherwise encouraged since they then clearly perceived themselves to be earning something tied indirectly to class benchmarks and expectations, which they are all there to fulfill anyway. Just as transgressions come with real, and now a clearly seen consequence, so is desired class conduct rewarded in kind.

You might be surprised as I was to find that, place enough adults in the same room to discuss a topic and many of them forget tenets of basic courtesy. The benefit to the facilitator using a rewards-based system is that, the enforcement of the class ethics becomes a game and not a pedantic truism.