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Jianzhong Xu – Teachers College Record, 2023
Teachers College Record (TCR) has nurtured scholarly voice through an esteemed editorial board, thematic special issues, and support for emerging scholars. The author's personal journal illustrates this nurturing process, from a formative co-authored TCR article with mentor Lyn Corno, to becoming a TCR reviewer, learning constructive feedback, and…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Periodicals, Editing, Writing for Publication
Jianzhong 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
Jianzhong Xu – Educational Psychology, 2025
This study classified profiles of homework approaches involving eighth graders in China, regarding the likely combinations of surface and deep approaches to homework. Latent profile analysis (LPA) identified five distinct homework approach profiles: "High Deep/Low Surface", "Low Deep/Low Surface", "Moderate Deep/Moderate…
Descriptors: Homework, Middle School Students, Academic Achievement, Grade 8
Süleyman Avci; Jianzhong Xu; Mustafa Özgenel – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Homework is a widely used educational practice, but the ways in which students approach it vary considerably and influence its effectiveness. Understanding these behavioral differences is crucial to designing effective and appropriate homework practices. The purpose of this study was to examine students' homework behavior and determine its…
Descriptors: Homework, Student Behavior, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation
Gokhan Bas; Jianzhong Xu – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
The purpose of the present research was to examine the interplay between teacher feedback, parental involvement and peer support and on homework engagement of students. The research adopted correlation research model, and the participants of the research were students (n = 450) in the central region of Turkey. In the research, 'Teacher Feedback in…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Parent Participation, Teacher Influence, Peer Influence
Jianzhong Xu; Ruiping Yuan; Chuang Wang; Fuyi Yang; Daina Zhu – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
Applying a three-level meta-analysis, the goal of our investigation was to examine the relationship between parental homework involvement and students' achievement, and to study whether certain study features could have resulted in the inconsistent results regarding this relationship across primary studies. We identified a total of 28 studies (32…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent Child Relationship, Homework, Research Reports
Jianzhong Xu; Süleyman Avci; Mustafa Özgenel; José Carlos Núñez – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2025
Drawn from expectancy-value, self-regulated learning, self-determination, and growth mindset theories, our investigation explored multilevel models of homework management among middle school students in Türkiye. At the student level, homework management was positively related to homework interest, homework effort, self-regulatory purpose, parent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homework, Self Management, Middle School Students
Chuang Wang; Jianzhong Xu; José Carlos Núñez; Susana Rodríguez Martínez – Educational Psychology, 2023
The aim of this investigation is to identify different profiles of undergraduates based on online homework management strategies: arranging the environment, managing time, monitoring motivation, cognitive reappraisal, emotion management, and handling distraction. Latent profile analysis (LPA) was applied to investigate online homework management…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Homework, Undergraduate Students, Profiles
Jianzhong Xu – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
This study investigated multilevel models of homework time management involving Chinese middle school students. At the individual level, homework time management was positively associated with arranging the environment, monitoring motivation, time on homework, and teacher and parent autonomy support. Additionally, homework time management was…
Descriptors: Homework, Parent Child Relationship, Learning Motivation, Time Management
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
Jianzhong Xu – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
The present study investigated multilevel models posited to predict student approaches to homework. Participants were 1,072 middle school students in China. Results revealed that deep and surface approaches were positively associated with performance-approach. Furthermore, deep approach to homework was associated negatively with homework cost, yet…
Descriptors: Homework, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Predictor Variables, Middle School Students
Jianzhong Xu – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
This study aimed to examine multilevel models posited to predict student perceptions of teacher feedback quality. A cross-sectional survey design was used, involving 1072 middle school students. We incorporated two clusters of variables: (a) student characteristics (gender, prior knowledge, parent education, homework expectancy, homework value,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Educational Quality, Homework
Jianzhong Xu – Metacognition and Learning, 2024
The current investigation examined multilevel models aimed at predicting two dimensions of homework emotion regulation: emotion management and cognitive reappraisal. Our models integrated key components from self-determination, expectancy-value, achievement goal, learning approaches, and self-regulatory or volitional perspectives. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Homework, Emotional Problems
Fuyi Yang; Jianzhong Xu; José Carlos Núñez; Chuang Wang; Luxi Pu – Journal of Educational Research, 2024
Informed by multiple theoretical perspectives pertaining to academic procrastination, this investigation examined multilevel models aimed to predict homework procrastination using the data from 1,072 middle schoolers in China. Our model incorporated student gender, homework motivation, homework approach, homework behavior, and time allocated to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Grade 8
Jianzhong Xu – Journal of Educational Research, 2011
The author aimed to test empirical models of variables posited to predict homework completion at the secondary school level. Student- and class-level predictors of homework completion were analyzed in a survey of 1,046 8th-grade students from 63 classes and of 849 11th-grade students from 48 classes. Most of the variance in homework completion…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Homework, Parent Education, Secondary School Students

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