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  1. Maintaining a Positive Attitude Toward Homework

    Use a timer. Depending on the age of the child, 5 to 20 minutes of concerted effort and concentration might be all that is possible. Then take a short timed break of 3 to 5 minutes and return to work. A break is activity-based to replenish mental energy. Stretching, throwing a ball with the dog, walking to the kitchen for a drink of water or ...

  2. Homework

    Purpose, Public Attitudes toward Homework, The Positive and Negative Effects of Homework, Extensiveness of Homework. Homework is defined as tasks assigned to students by school teachers that are intended to be carried out during nonschool hours. This definition excludes in-school guided study (although homework is often worked on during school ...

  3. Personality, Homework Behavior and Academic Performance

    Personality predicted homework behavior (after controlling for things like cognitive ability, gender, and ethnicity). Conscientiousness and Agreeableness were positively related to homework time.

  4. Homework Myths Realities and Comments

    Homework Myths Realities and Comments. Purpose of this Document. Everyone is familiar with homework. By the time students arrive at college, they have adopted certain attitudes about homework and certain approaches to doing it. Unfortunately, these attitudes and approaches are likely to be carry-overs from high school or even earlier academic ...

  5. How to Do Homework: 15 Expert Tips and Tricks

    Here's how it works: first, set a timer for 25 minutes. This is going to be your work time. During this 25 minutes, all you can do is work on whatever homework assignment you have in front of you. No email, no text messaging, no phone calls—just homework. When that timer goes off, you get to take a 5 minute break.

  6. 15 Amazing Benefits of Homework: An Essential Guide

    Boosts Memory Retention. Homework provides practice time to recall concepts discussed in class, thereby enabling students to memorize facts and figures taught at school. One of the advantages of homework is that it sharpens memory power and concentration. 6. Enables Parents to Track a Student's Performance.

  7. Dear Parents, Homework Isn't All That Beneficial

    And it is stressful. Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman, clinical director of the New England Center for Pediatric Psychology and contributing editor to a study on homework, cites "a plethora of evidence that it's detrimental to their attitude about school, their grades, their self-confidence, their social skills, and their quality of life.".

  8. PDF Changing Homework Habits: Rethinking Attitudes

    homework. † 36 percent assign at least one exer-cise. Based on the observations I made be-fore collecting such information, I de-cided to change some of my attitudes to-wards homework: what, how, how much, when, and why when assigning homework. Here are some suggestions that you could try out with your students. 1. Don't condition your students

  9. Homework Attitude

    And we can have a significant influence on how our children approach those challenges through our own words and attitudes. An interesting study was done on mothers and children during homework time.(1) Researchers noted whether mothers' comments during homework completion were controlling or supporting autonomy and competence.

  10. What's Your Homework Attitude?

    However, too much homework can work the opposite of its intended purpose. According to a 2006 Duke University meta-analysis, there is a positive correlation between homework and grades. Simply put, students who did homework performed better in school. Learning Styles & Homework Attitudes. Not everyone learns the same way.

  11. Frontiers

    Introduction. In accordance with the proposal of Trautwein et al. (2006), we study herein the role of motivational variables as individual antecedents of student behavioral homework engagement and its impact on academic achievement.Assuming the principles of the theory of expectancy-value (Eccles, 1983; Pintrich and De Groot, 1990; Eccles and Wigfield, 2002), we focused this study on the role ...

  12. Relationships of attitudes toward homework and time spent on homework

    In previous studies of homework in core academic subjects, positive student attitudes toward homework were linked to higher achievement, whereas time spent on homework showed an inconsistent relationship with achievement. This study examined the generalizability of these findings to foreign language learning by analyzing 2,342 adult students' attitudes toward assigned homework, time spent on ...

  13. PDF Homework: At Home or at School?—Attitudes of Teachers, Parents ...

    (Kraus, 1995). Attitudes toward homework, however, are inconsistent. Over the last century, the public attitude toward homework has changed from positive to negative and back. Homework is noticeably a source of friction between teachers and students, children and parents, and teachers and parents. Many pediatricians and family

  14. How To Teach Your Child to Have a Good School Attitude

    Talk with your child about your own experience with school. Let them know what worked for you and what you would do differently. Your child will get to know you better and hear directly from you about the role education has played in your life. Keep the conversation focused on how doing well in school leads to success and increased ...

  15. PDF ATTITUDES ABOUT HOMEWORK

    ATTITUDES ABOUT HOMEWORK Families differ widely over how they deal with the issue of homework. In some homes, homework is an issue that precipitates heated arguments between parents and teenagers. In other homes, teenagers experience very few problems with their parents about homework. The following three case studies describe different family ...

  16. Relationships among attitudes about homework, amount of homework

    Students (n = 709), parents, and teachers (n = 82) completed a questionnaire concerning amount of homework assigned by teachers, portion of assignments completed by students, and attitudes about homework. Student achievement measures were also collected. Weak relations were found between the amount of homework assigned and student achievement. Positive relations were found between the amount ...

  17. Homework Battles and Power Struggles with Your Child

    7. Your simple message to your child. Be clear, concise and direct. Your simple message to your kids, which does not require lectures or big sit down conversations is, "Your job is to take care of your responsibilities, which includes getting your homework done and helping out in the house. That's my expectation for you.

  18. My Teenager Won't Do Homework and Gets Angry Over Grades

    Defiant Over Homework: ADDitude Answers. ADHD, ODD, and puberty are a tough combination. Work on one challenge at a time. First, handle the missing assignments. Set up a meeting with your son's teachers to find out which assignments are missing, and come up with a schedule for getting him caught up.

  19. PDF Student Attitudes and Approaches to Online Homework

    In the first we examine students' attitudes and practices related to online homework, including an exploration of the relationship between student characteristics, study behaviors, and perceived benefits of online systems. In the second phase we examine the relationship between homework attitudes, homework practices, and learning outcomes.

  20. Engaging Homework: Describing Words & Examples

    3. Repetitive: Some homework assignments may involve repetition or practice to reinforce learning. Consider these examples: "The spelling homework was repetitive, but it helped me memorize the words and improve my spelling skills.". "Practicing multiplication tables can be repetitive, but it strengthens my foundation in math.". 4.

  21. Attitudes toward Homework

    Roland F. Gray, Donald E. Allison An Experimental Study of the Relationship of Homework to Pupil Success in Computation with Fractions, School Science and Mathematics 71, no.4 4 (Mar 2010): 339-346.

  22. PDF Student'S Attitude Towards Homework a Thesis by Bijay Kumar Yadav in

    ii LETTER OF APPROVAL This Thesis entitled Student's Attitude Towards Homework submitted by Mr. Bijay Kumar Yadav in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master's in Math Education has been approved Viva-Voce Committee Singnature 1.

  23. ЕГЭ: упражнение 71 на высказывания и утверждения

    My attitude to homework has totally changed. 2. I wish I had done more homework at school. 3. Homework really annoys me. 4. I'm used to doing homework. 5. I wouldn't mind doing homework in certain subjects. 6. Homework isn't always necessary. 7. I consider homework useful. A - 3 B - 6 С - 2 D - 1