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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
Pollard, Steve J. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine teachers' perceptions of the purposes and effectiveness of homework and effective and ineffective homework strategies at the elementary level. A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used to explore the lived experiences of six elementary teachers from one public school division in the southeast region…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Program Effectiveness, Homework, Educational Practices
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Yao Wu; Katie Gilligan-Lee; Terry Ng-Knight; Harriet R. Tenenbaum – Journal of Educational Research, 2024
Homework is a multifaceted process that involves a complex interplay of factors. However, the processes underlying homework behavior are not yet fully understood. In Study 1, we tested a model of homework processes by examining the influences and consequences of homework behavior based on 473 Chinese students. In Study 2 with 159 British students,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Expectation
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Planchard, Matthew; Daniel, Kristy L.; Maroo, Jill; Mishra, Chandrani; McLean, Tim – Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching, 2015
We conducted a mixed methods study in an upper-level genetics course exploring the relationships between student motivation, homework completion, and academic achievement at the college level. We used data from an open-ended questionnaire, homework grades and completion reports, and exam scores. We used these data sources to measure self-perceived…
Descriptors: Genetics, College Science, Homework, Student Motivation
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Xu, Jianzhong; Du, Jianxia – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background: Online learning is becoming a global phenomenon and has a steadily growing influence on how learning is delivered at universities worldwide. Motivation of students, however, has become one of the most serious problems in one important aspect of online learning--online collaborative groupwork or online group homework. It is surprising…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Homework
Chin-Fei, Huang; Chia-Ju, Liu – Online Submission, 2012
The purpose of this study is to explore the influences of students' learning motivation on Web-based collaborative learning. This study conducted learning materials of Web pages about science and collaborative learning, a motivation questionnaire and interviews were used for data collection. Eighty Grade 5 students and a science teacher were…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Homework, Internet, Experimental Groups
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Otto, Wayne – Journal of Reading, 1985
Reviews some of the existing data on the effects of homework on learning. (HOD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Environment, Homework
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education