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Liping Guo; Jieyun Li; Zheng Xu; Xiaoling Hu; Chunyan Liu; Xin Xing; Xiuxia Li; Howard White; Kehu Yang – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2024
Homework is a common activity among K-12 students, and numerous observational meta-analyses have confirmed the positive relationship between homework and academic performance. However, considering children's limited energy and attention, several researchers have proposed an optimum time to spend on homework. This Campbell review examines the…
Descriptors: Homework, Time on Task, Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education
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Guo, Liping; Li, Jieyun; Xu, Zheng; Hu, Xiaoling; Liu, Chunyan; Xing, Xin; Li, Xiuxia; White, Howard; Yang, Kehu – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2021
This review will synthesize the results from publications focused on homework time and academic performance, and estimate the relationship between the two. Our objectives are: (1) to identify the extent of the relationship between homework time and students' academic performance; (2) to analyze the differences in the effectiveness of homework time…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Homework, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students
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Cadigan, Francoise Jane; Wei, Yichun; Clifton, Rodney A. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2013
Very little Canadian research has examined the academic achievement of private school students. Data from The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003 were used to examine the achievement of private school students. The study found that private school students outperformed their public school peers. In addition, the students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Mathematics Achievement, Private Schools
Ginsburg, Alan; Chudowsky, Naomi – National Assessment Governing Board, 2012
This report uses NAEP background data to track time and learning since the mid-1990s in three areas: student absenteeism; classroom instructional time in mathematics, reading, music and the visual arts; and homework time expected by teachers. Key report findings are: (1) Students with higher rates of "monthly absenteeism" score…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Collection, Educational Assessment, Alignment (Education)
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Hyde, Janet S.; Else-Quest, Nicole M.; Alibali, Martha W.; Knuth, Eric; Romberg, Thomas – Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 2006
Parents are a largely untapped resource for improving the mathematics performance of American children, which lags behind the performance of children from other nations. The purpose of the research reported here was to assess homework practices in the home, and to examine interactions between mothers and their 5th grade children as they worked…
Descriptors: Homework, Mothers, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 5
Walker, Karen – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2004
The research that has been conducted on single-sex schools and classes, has for the most part, been done in the private school and college realm, primarily because very few public schools established single-sex programs. One of the consistent findings has been that with so much emphasis having been placed on the development of girls, that boys are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Females, Time on Task, Homework