(PDF) Investigating the Effects of Homework on Student ...
Homework has long been a topic of social research, but rela-tively few studies have focused on the teacher's role in the homework process. Most research examines what students do, and whether and ...
Key Lessons: What Research Says About the Value of Homework
Too much homework may diminish its effectiveness. While research on the optimum amount of time students should spend on homework is limited, there are indications that for high school students, 1½ to 2½ hours per night is optimum. Middle school students appear to benefit from smaller amounts (less than 1 hour per night).
Does Homework Really Help Students Learn?
Yes, and the stories we hear of kids being stressed out from too much homework—four or five hours of homework a night—are real. That's problematic for physical and mental health and overall well-being. But the research shows that higher-income students get a lot more homework than lower-income kids.
PDF What the research says about HOMEWORK
What the research says about HOMEWORK WHAT IS HOMEWORK? "Tasks assigned to students by school teachers that are meant to be carried out during non-school hours" (Cooper, 1989, p.7 as cited in Hattie, 2009, p. 234). ... Review of Educational Research , 76 (1), 1-62. Corno, L. (1996, November). Homework is a Complicated Thing. Educational ...
Does Homework Work?
Cooper conducted a review of the existing research on homework in the mid-2000s, and found that, up to a point, the amount of homework students reported doing correlates with their performance on ...
Does Homework Improve Academic Achievement? A Synthesis of Research
HARRIS COOPER is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Program in Education, Box 90739, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0739; e-mail [email protected] His research interests include how academic activities outside the school day (such as homework, after school programs, and summer school) affect the achievement of children and adolescents; he also studies techniques for improving ...
Does Homework Improve Academic Achievement? A Synthesis of Research
The Importance of Homework and Homework Research Homework is an important part of most school-aged children's daily routine. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (Campbell et al., 1996), over two-thirds of all 9-year-olds and three-quarters of all 13- and 17-year-olds reported doing some homework every day.
Homework: Facts and Fiction
Despite homework's secondary position in the hierarchy of factors associated with educational success, homework research has always been a prolific field and will continue to be of interest in the future due to its unique characteristics. It is the only teaching strategy that occurs outside the school, fundamentally thought of to be done at ...
PDF Homework: Facts and Fiction
"mystery" of homework, Trautwein, Schnyder et al. (2009) later branded homework as "chameleon-like," and Flunger et al. (2015) considered it "Janus-faced." The status of homework in educational research is truly paradoxical, in the sense that the researchers' efforts are not proportional to the benefits of homework in terms of
Key findings about online learning and the homework ...
Here is what Pew Research Center surveys found about the students most likely to be affected by the homework gap and their experiences learning from home. Around nine-in-ten U.S. parents with K-12 children at home (93%) said their children have had some online instruction since the coronavirus outbreak began in February 2020, and 30% of these ...
Does Homework Matter? An Investigation of Teacher Perceptions About
Synthesis of research on homework . Educational Leadership, 47(3), 85-91 . Google Scholar. Cooper, H. (1989b). Homework. New York: Longman . ... a national research center funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) of the U.S. Department of Education, under Cooperative Agreement No. R306A60001-96 (July 1, 1996-June 30 ...
Is Homework Good for Kids? Here's What the Research Says
The research. The most comprehensive research on homework to date comes from a 2006 meta-analysis by Duke University psychology professor Harris Cooper, who found evidence of a positive ...
Research Trends: Why Homework Should Be Balanced
Why Homework Should Be Balanced. Homework can boost learning, but doing too much can be detrimental. The National PTA and National Education Association support the "10-minute homework rule," which recommends 10 minutes of homework per grade level, per night (10 minutes for first grade, 20 minutes for second grade, and so on, up to two ...
Should We Get Rid of Homework?
Calarco, Horn and Chen write, "Research has highlighted inequalities in students' homework production and linked those inequalities to differences in students' home lives and in the support ...
Full article: Variations of homework amount assigned in elementary
A FEW YEARS ago, the APA's Monitor in Psychology featured a front-page article that examined the questionable effects of homework on students' academic achievement and its potential detrimental effect on their well-being (Weir, Citation 2016).The debate around the utility of homework is one of the oldest and most controversial debates in education (Cooper, Citation 2007), and recently ...
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The purpose of the homework assignment should be articulated to the students, including the fact that a certain task might be a challenge. Research shows that when children know why they are doing the homework, they are more engaged and inspired. Tasks should be personally relevant to students and should allow for choices.
Effects of homework creativity on academic achievement and creativity
Third, the education researchers have observed homework creativity for many years and been manipulating them in educational practice. Kaiipob (1951) described that homework is a semi-guide learning process in which homework such as composition, ... To address the gap in the previous research on homework creativity, this study examined the ...
Homework in America
Responses indicating no homework on the "usual" question in 2004 were: 2% for age 9-year-olds, 5% for 13 year olds, and 12% for 17-year-olds. These figures are much less than the ones reported ...
What's the Right Amount of Homework?
The National PTA and the National Education Association support the " 10-minute homework guideline "—a nightly 10 minutes of homework per grade level. But many teachers and parents are quick to point out that what matters is the quality of the homework assigned and how well it meets students' needs, not the amount of time spent on it.
Homework
When implementing homework, the evidence suggests a wide variation in impact. Therefore, schools should consider the ' active' ingredients to the approach, which may include: Considering the quality of homework over the quantity. Using well-designed tasks that are linked to classroom learning. Clearly setting out the aims of homework to pupils.
Parent Involvement in Homework: A Research Synthesis
New emphasis is being placed on the importance of parent involvement in children's education. In a synthesis of research on the effects of parent involvement in homework, a meta-analysis of 14 studies that manipulated parent training for homework involvement reveals that training parents to be involved in their child's homework results in (a) higher rates of homework completion, (b) fewer ...
What does the research say about homework policies and practices?
Homework, when designed and implemented properly, is a valuable tool for reinforcing learning. This essay provides a summary of educational research on homework, discusses the elements of effective homework, and suggests practical classroom applications for teachers.
Does Homework Help? A Review of Research
Huiyong Fan, Jianzhong Xu, Zhihui Cai, Jinbo He, Xitao Fan Homework and students' achievement in math and science: A 30-year meta-analysis, 1986-2015, Educational Research Review 20 (Feb 2017): 35-54.
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Homework has long been a topic of social research, but rela-tively few studies have focused on the teacher's role in the homework process. Most research examines what students do, and whether and ...
Too much homework may diminish its effectiveness. While research on the optimum amount of time students should spend on homework is limited, there are indications that for high school students, 1½ to 2½ hours per night is optimum. Middle school students appear to benefit from smaller amounts (less than 1 hour per night).
Yes, and the stories we hear of kids being stressed out from too much homework—four or five hours of homework a night—are real. That's problematic for physical and mental health and overall well-being. But the research shows that higher-income students get a lot more homework than lower-income kids.
What the research says about HOMEWORK WHAT IS HOMEWORK? "Tasks assigned to students by school teachers that are meant to be carried out during non-school hours" (Cooper, 1989, p.7 as cited in Hattie, 2009, p. 234). ... Review of Educational Research , 76 (1), 1-62. Corno, L. (1996, November). Homework is a Complicated Thing. Educational ...
Cooper conducted a review of the existing research on homework in the mid-2000s, and found that, up to a point, the amount of homework students reported doing correlates with their performance on ...
HARRIS COOPER is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Program in Education, Box 90739, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0739; e-mail [email protected] His research interests include how academic activities outside the school day (such as homework, after school programs, and summer school) affect the achievement of children and adolescents; he also studies techniques for improving ...
The Importance of Homework and Homework Research Homework is an important part of most school-aged children's daily routine. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (Campbell et al., 1996), over two-thirds of all 9-year-olds and three-quarters of all 13- and 17-year-olds reported doing some homework every day.
Despite homework's secondary position in the hierarchy of factors associated with educational success, homework research has always been a prolific field and will continue to be of interest in the future due to its unique characteristics. It is the only teaching strategy that occurs outside the school, fundamentally thought of to be done at ...
"mystery" of homework, Trautwein, Schnyder et al. (2009) later branded homework as "chameleon-like," and Flunger et al. (2015) considered it "Janus-faced." The status of homework in educational research is truly paradoxical, in the sense that the researchers' efforts are not proportional to the benefits of homework in terms of
Here is what Pew Research Center surveys found about the students most likely to be affected by the homework gap and their experiences learning from home. Around nine-in-ten U.S. parents with K-12 children at home (93%) said their children have had some online instruction since the coronavirus outbreak began in February 2020, and 30% of these ...
Synthesis of research on homework . Educational Leadership, 47(3), 85-91 . Google Scholar. Cooper, H. (1989b). Homework. New York: Longman . ... a national research center funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) of the U.S. Department of Education, under Cooperative Agreement No. R306A60001-96 (July 1, 1996-June 30 ...
The research. The most comprehensive research on homework to date comes from a 2006 meta-analysis by Duke University psychology professor Harris Cooper, who found evidence of a positive ...
Why Homework Should Be Balanced. Homework can boost learning, but doing too much can be detrimental. The National PTA and National Education Association support the "10-minute homework rule," which recommends 10 minutes of homework per grade level, per night (10 minutes for first grade, 20 minutes for second grade, and so on, up to two ...
Calarco, Horn and Chen write, "Research has highlighted inequalities in students' homework production and linked those inequalities to differences in students' home lives and in the support ...
A FEW YEARS ago, the APA's Monitor in Psychology featured a front-page article that examined the questionable effects of homework on students' academic achievement and its potential detrimental effect on their well-being (Weir, Citation 2016).The debate around the utility of homework is one of the oldest and most controversial debates in education (Cooper, Citation 2007), and recently ...
The purpose of the homework assignment should be articulated to the students, including the fact that a certain task might be a challenge. Research shows that when children know why they are doing the homework, they are more engaged and inspired. Tasks should be personally relevant to students and should allow for choices.
Third, the education researchers have observed homework creativity for many years and been manipulating them in educational practice. Kaiipob (1951) described that homework is a semi-guide learning process in which homework such as composition, ... To address the gap in the previous research on homework creativity, this study examined the ...
Responses indicating no homework on the "usual" question in 2004 were: 2% for age 9-year-olds, 5% for 13 year olds, and 12% for 17-year-olds. These figures are much less than the ones reported ...
The National PTA and the National Education Association support the " 10-minute homework guideline "—a nightly 10 minutes of homework per grade level. But many teachers and parents are quick to point out that what matters is the quality of the homework assigned and how well it meets students' needs, not the amount of time spent on it.
When implementing homework, the evidence suggests a wide variation in impact. Therefore, schools should consider the ' active' ingredients to the approach, which may include: Considering the quality of homework over the quantity. Using well-designed tasks that are linked to classroom learning. Clearly setting out the aims of homework to pupils.
New emphasis is being placed on the importance of parent involvement in children's education. In a synthesis of research on the effects of parent involvement in homework, a meta-analysis of 14 studies that manipulated parent training for homework involvement reveals that training parents to be involved in their child's homework results in (a) higher rates of homework completion, (b) fewer ...
Homework, when designed and implemented properly, is a valuable tool for reinforcing learning. This essay provides a summary of educational research on homework, discusses the elements of effective homework, and suggests practical classroom applications for teachers.
Huiyong Fan, Jianzhong Xu, Zhihui Cai, Jinbo He, Xitao Fan Homework and students' achievement in math and science: A 30-year meta-analysis, 1986-2015, Educational Research Review 20 (Feb 2017): 35-54.