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  1. PDF Increasing the Effectiveness of Homework for All Learners in the ...

    The purpose of this article is to provide a summary of homework research, out - line the elements of effective homework, and provide practical suggestions for classroom applications. Increasing the effectiveness of homework is a multifaceted goal. Accom-modations, organization, structure of assignments, technology, home-school

  2. 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).

  3. (PDF) Investigating the Effects of Homework on Student Learning and

    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 ...

  4. Does homework still have value? A Johns Hopkins education expert weighs

    The necessity of homework has been a subject of debate since at least as far back as the 1890s, according to Joyce L. Epstein, co-director of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University. "It's always been the case that parents, kids—and sometimes teachers, too—wonder if this is just busy work ...

  5. Is Homework Good for Kids? Here's What the Research Says

    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 correlation between ...

  6. 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.

  7. PDF What the research says about HOMEWORK

    Homework opponents may have a point, as not all homework is "good" homework Marzano and Pickering (2007). The case against homework cites that "homework is not assigned in appropriate ways, may cause boredom, gets parents too involved, too much pressure, interferes with quality family time," (Cooper 2010).

  8. Research Trends: Why Homework Should Be Balanced

    Here's what the research says: In general, homework has substantial benefits at the high school level, with decreased benefits for middle school students and few benefits for elementary students (Cooper, 1989; Cooper et al., 2006). While assigning homework may have academic benefits, it can also cut into important personal and family time ...

  9. 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 ...

  10. Does homework really work?

    After two hours, however, achievement doesn't improve. For high schoolers, Cooper's research suggests that two hours per night is optimal. If teens have more than two hours of homework a night, their academic success flatlines. But less is not better. The average high school student doing homework outperformed 69 percent of the students in ...

  11. Full article: The Creation and Implementation of Effective Homework

    2. THE CREATION OF HOMEWORK. In this first volume, we focus on the creation of effective homework. Our motivation in exploring the design aspects of homework first is perhaps best captured by the writings of Joyce Epstein and Frances Van Voorhis who observe: "Most research examines what students do, and whether and how the completion of homework or time spent affects student achievement or ...

  12. Full article: The Creation and Implementation of Effective Homework

    1. EFFECTIVE HOMEWORK PRACTICES. This issue of PRIMUS is the second of a two-part special issue on The Creation and Implementation of Effective Homework Assignments. Part 1 of the special issue focused on the creation of effective homework and featured papers that discussed elements of effective homework design and presented innovative homework systems targeting specific learning goals.

  13. 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.

  14. Homework

    The studies reviewed with the highest impacts set homework twice a week in a particular subject. Evidence also suggests that how homework relates to learning during normal school time is important. In the most effective examples homework was an integral part of learning, rather than an add-on.

  15. 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 ...

  16. Homework: What Does the Evidence Say?

    Cathy Vatterott (2010) identified five fundamental characteristics of good homework: purpose, efficiency, ownership, competence, and aesthetic appeal. Purpose: all homework assignments are mean­ingful & students must also understand the purpose of the assignment and why it is important in the context of their academic experience (Xu, 2011).

  17. Should Kids Get Homework?

    Too much, however, is harmful. And homework has a greater positive effect on students in secondary school (grades 7-12) than those in elementary. "Every child should be doing homework, but the ...

  18. Effective Practices for Homework

    Effective Practices for Homework. By: Kathy Ruhl, Charles Hughes. A review of the research on the effective use of homework for students with learning disabilities suggests that there are three big ideas for teachers to remember: (1) the best use of homework is to build proficiency in recently acquired skills or to maintain skills previously ...

  19. Stanford research shows pitfalls of homework

    They cite prior research indicating that homework benefits plateau at about two hours per night, and that 90 minutes to two and a half hours is optimal for high school. Their study found that too ...

  20. Positive Affect Variability is Associated with Homework ...

    Academic underachievement is one of the most pervasive problems for children with ADHD (Frazier et al., 2007; Polderman et al., 2010; Visser et al., 2020).One important measure of academic achievement is homework (Cooper et al., 2006; Valle et al., 2016).In fact, teacher-rated homework completion is a better predictor of students' grades than students' past grades, intelligence quotient ...

  21. How technology is reinventing K-12 education

    In 2023 K-12 schools experienced a rise in cyberattacks, underscoring the need to implement strong systems to safeguard student data. Technology is "requiring people to check their assumptions ...

  22. How to write a discussion text

    Set them the challenge of writing their own discussion piece on a topic using all the techniques outlined by Leah. You could also use the detailed explanation of writing in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd ...

  23. Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

    Find information on symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, data, research, and free resources. Find information on symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, data, research, and free resources. Skip directly to site content Skip directly to search. An official website of the United States government.

  24. Acknowledgments

    A quarter of U.S. teachers say AI tools do more harm than good in K-12 education. report May 9, 2024. Teens and Video Games Today. report Apr 29, 2024. Americans' Views of Technology Companies. ... ABOUT PEW RESEARCH CENTER Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping ...

  25. The Problem With America's Protest Feedback Loop

    In a new working paper at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Amory Gethin of the Paris School of Economics and Vincent Pons of Harvard Business School analyzed the effect of 14 social ...

  26. PowerSchool Schoology Learning

    PowerBuddy for Learning. PowerBuddy for Learning is the personal assistant for teaching and learning. PowerBuddy makes educators' lives easier by helping them easily create high-quality assignments and instructional content. Students benefit from an always-available personalized assistant to support them in the way they choose to learn.