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PRX » Piece » The End of Homework - 0 views

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    Podcast on homework. You probably have to join the site to access the podcast. Myths about homework. Does HW lead to Academic Achievement. In ES it's counter productive.  Kids who do more HW get higher grades.  Patterns of behavior
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Homework: An Unnecessary Evil? | Psychology Today - 2 views

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  • First, no research has ever found a benefit to assigning homework (of any kind or in any amount) in elementary school.
  • Second, even at the high school level, the research supporting homework hasn’t been particularly persuasive.  There does seem to be a correlation between homework and standardized test scores, but (a) it isn’t strong, meaning that homework doesn’t explain much of the variance in scores,
  • Third, when homework is related to test scores, the connection tends to be strongest -- or, actually, least tenuous -- with math.  If homework turns out to be unnecessary for students to succeed in that subject, it’s probably unnecessary everywhere.
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  •  Even assuming the existence of a causal relationship, which is by no means clear, one or two hours’ worth of homework every day buys you two or three points on a test.
  • And the result of this fine-tuned investigation?  There was no relationship whatsoever between time spent on homework and course grade, and “no substantive difference in grades between students who complete homework and those who do not.”
  • Even if homework were a complete waste of time, how could it not be positively related to course grades?
  • The better the research, the less likely one is to find any benefits from homework.  
  • The assumption that teachers are just assigning homework badly, that we’d start to see meaningful results if only it were improved, is harder and harder to justify with each study that’s published.
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