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Improving Sixth-Grade Students Perceptions of High-Effort Assignments by Assigning More Work: Interaction of Additive Interspersal and Assignment Effort on Assignment Choice
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Billington, Eric J.; Skinner, Christopher H.; Cruchon, Natalie M. – Journal of School Psychology, 2004
Sixth-grade students were exposed to two pairs of mathematics assignments. Assignment Pair A included a high-effort and a moderate-effort assignment, each containing 18 three-digit by two-digit (3x2) problems. Assignment Pair B was similar except the high-effort assignment contained six additional one-digit by one-digit (1x1) problems interspersed…
Descriptors: Homework, Student Attitudes, Grade 6, Mathematics Activities