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Direct linkSüleyman 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
Martin, Andrew J.; Ginns, Paul; Anderson, Michael; Gibson, Robyn; Bishop, Michelle – Educational Psychology, 2021
Among a sample of 472 Indigenous high school students, juxtaposed with 15,884 non-Indigenous students from the same 54 schools, we investigated variation in motivation and engagement from school to school, and the role of motivation and engagement in predicting various academic outcomes (aspirations, buoyancy, homework completion, and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Indigenous Populations, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement
Schroth, Stephen T.; Helfer, Jason A. – Educational Research Quarterly, 2020
Public schools often offer arts opportunities to certain students. Educator assessments of which students should receive services are of great importance in such circumstances as teacher referrals often play a major role in such decisions. Little is known, however, about educator beliefs regarding which gifted children should receive arts…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Teacher Attitudes, Academically Gifted, Student Needs
Download full textBurriss, Kathleen G.; Snead, Donald – School Community Journal, 2017
The purpose of this study was to understand students' perspectives on the role of homework. Middle school students (N = 506) volunteered to complete open-ended surveys describing their perceptions regarding the effectiveness of homework. Qualitative analysis revealed that students identified several instructional and noninstructional reasons for…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Motivation, Program Effectiveness, Homework
Xu, Jianzhong – American Educational Research Journal, 2008
This aim of this study was to test empirical models of variables posited to predict homework interest at the secondary school level. Student- and class-level predictors of homework interest were analyzed in a survey of 1,046 8th graders from 63 classes and of 849 11th graders from 48 classes. Most of the variance in homework interest occurred at…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Homework, Grade 8, Grade 11
Xu, Jianzhong – Educational Psychology, 2007
The article links student and family characteristics, along with homework characteristics and homework purposes, to homework management as reported by 194 middle-school students in Grades 5-6. The results revealed that homework management was not related to grade level, amount of parental education, time spent on homework, or extrinsic reasons for…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Family Involvement, Homework, Middle School Students
Trautwein, Ulrich; Ludtke, Oliver; Kastens, Claudia; Koller, Olaf – Child Development, 2006
In 2 studies, an expectancy-value framework was applied to investigate effort expended on mathematics homework. In Study 1 (2,712 students in grades 5, 7, and 9; mean age=13.37 years), lower homework effort was found in higher grades. The effects of intrinsic value on homework effort were higher in the older cohorts, whereas the effects of the…
Descriptors: Homework, Grade 5, Grade 7, Grade 8
