Homework and academic achievement across Spanish Compulsory Education
By José Carlos Núñez, Natalia Suarez, Rebeca Cerezo, J. Gonzalez-pienda, Pedro Rosário, R. Mourão, Antonio Valle. 2015
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Homework (HW) is one of the most common school-related activities among parents, students and teachers. However, the need to assign HW to students has been extensively debated. The present investigation examines the relationship between specific HW variables (i.e. amount of HW completed, time spent on HW and perceived quality of HW time management) and academic achievement, while controlling for students’ gender and grade level. Participants included 454 students (ranging from 10 to 16 years of age) from three schools in northern Spain. A multivariate analyses of variance and path analyses showed that the amount of HW completed decreased with increased schooling, as did students’ perceived quality of HW time management. Data from hierarchical regression analyses completed by path analyses provided evidence that time spent on HW conjointly with perceived quality of HW time management explains how academic achievement is mediated by the amount of HW completed. These findings deepen the understanding of the complex impact of time spent on HW and on academic achievement.
Subfields: Education
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- José Carlos Núñez
- Pedro Rosário
- Antonio Valle
- Guillermo Vallejo
- Natalia Suarez
- J. Epstein
- Frances L. Van Voorhis
- Steven B. Sheldon
Citations in the corpus
- Relationships between perceived parental involvement in homework, student homework behaviors, and academic achievement: differences among elementary, junior high, and high school students (2015, methodology): “Homework time management is expected to show a positive and significant relationship with amount of homework completed and academic achievement (e.g., Núñez et al. 2013a, b; Xu 2010; Xu and Wu 2013).”