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Direct linkJianzhong Xu – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2025
This study aims to explore longitudinal associations among homework expectancy, mastery-approach, homework effort, and mathematics achievement involving middle school students over one school year. Results indicated that there was support for a positive reciprocal influence of mastery-approach and effort; greater initial mastery-approach resulted…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Learning Processes, Mastery Learning, Expectation
Kexin Qin; Yehui Wang – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
Homework is a self-regulated activity that constitutes a large proportion of learning time. In mathematics, how long is the optimal homework time for achievement development and how to improve homework time efficiency have long been questions. The study examined how mathematics homework time was related to mathematics achievement among Chinese…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Homework, Guidance, Metacognition
Yuhuan Zhang; Tian Li; Jianzhong Xu; Shuang Chen; Liping Lu; Lidong Wang – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: Mathematics homework is highly prevalent in East Asia. Teachers and parents expect mathematics homework to improve students' performance; however, studies have not clearly defined the effectiveness of the assignment of different amounts of homework. Aims: This study analyses the differential effect of homework amount on various facets…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Homework, Mathematics Achievement, Longitudinal Studies
Anna Hawrot; Lena Nusser – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This study investigated whether various aspects of the home learning environment -- that is, learning-related processes, parental perceptions of their child, and structural characteristics -- predicted private tutoring attendance in Grade 8. We used the data of 7393 students from the German National Educational Panel Study. Seventeen percent of…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Educational Environment, Tutoring, Private Education
Cunha, Jennifer; Rosário, Pedro; Núñez, José Carlos; Vallejo, Guilherme; Martins, Juliana; Högemann, Julia – Metacognition and Learning, 2019
The effectiveness of homework on improving student academic achievement depends on several factors; for example, feedback provided by the teacher (i.e. grading) and student engagement are important moderators in this process. However, the relationships between the types of homework feedback commonly used by teachers and student school engagement…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Homework, Academic Achievement, Feedback (Response)
Download full textSnead, Donald; Burris, Kathleen G. – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to understand middle school teachers' perspectives on the role of homework. Approximately 118 middle school teachers volunteered to complete open-ended surveys describing their perceptions regarding the effectiveness of homework. Qualitative analysis revealed teachers identified several instructional and…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Homework, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Motivation
Norton, Stephen; Zhang, Qingiong – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2013
Over the past decade it has been frequently reported that East Asian students are outperforming their Western counterparts in international tests of mathematics at middle-school level. This paper probes classroom discourse in an attempt to shed some light on this phenomenon. Data were collected from a sample of Chinese Year 8 students in a normal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Learner Engagement, Grade 8
Fang, Yanping – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2010
This study examines the mediating role of homework in the daily practice of a middle-school mathematics teacher and her colleagues in Shanghai. It aims to explore how a system of homework activities mediates and engenders a cultural pedagogy characterized by transforming errors into resources for teaching and learning. The transformation itself…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Homework, Learning Processes, Geometric Concepts
Stamper, John, Ed.; Pardos, Zachary, Ed.; Mavrikis, Manolis, Ed.; McLaren, Bruce M., Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2014
The 7th International Conference on Education Data Mining held on July 4th-7th, 2014, at the Institute of Education, London, UK is the leading international forum for high-quality research that mines large data sets in order to answer educational research questions that shed light on the learning process. These data sets may come from the traces…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Data Collection
