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  • Helping Your Students With Homework: A Guide for Teachers. 1998. This 40-page booklet from the U.S. Department of Education, organized around 18 tips from getting homework done, is filled with ideas from teachers for helping to make homework effective.
  • The Great Homework Debate. 2004. This article by American Federation of Teachers President Sandra Feldman offers guidelines to help maximize the benefit students received from the homework policies and practices that teachers set.
  • Do Students Have Too Much Homework? (Part II of the Brown Center Report on American Education.) 2003. This report reviews research on students’ homework practices. The report does not support media stories that children are doing too much homework.
  • Helping Your Student Get the Most Out of Homework. 2002-2004. This brochure from the NEA and the national PTA includes answers to frequently asked questions about homework, as well as specific advice for helping a child with homework.
  • Put an End to Homework Horror! 2003. This curriculum article from Education World offers advice for teachers who want to make the most out of schoolwork done at home.
  • Homework Perspectives: A Toolkit for Reflection. A professional development tool--complete with personal assessment and reflection, vignettes and selected readings, small group discussion questions, and thoughtful extension suggestions--to stimulate strategic consideration of what role you want homework to play in your own classroom.
  • Benefits of Homework. 2002. Written by a school psychologist, this article from Teachers.net Gazette examines the subject of homework: its purposes and benefits, and consider it from the perspectives of teachers, parents and students.
  • Homework for Students with Learning Disabilities: Guidelines for Teachers and Parents. This article from the Training and Technical Assistance Center at the College of William and Mary suggests guidelines to help make homework a productive experience for students with disabilities and their teachers and parents.

 

 

WEBSITES and ARTICLES posted by Deerfield High School

 

Homework for All - In Moderation The author discusses the positive and negative effects of homework. Also provides guidelines for homework policy. He concludes that giving homework benefits the learner as long as teachers use their own knowledge of developmental levels to guide policies and expectations.
More Than Minutes: Teachers' Roles in Designing Homework Discusses the role of teachers in designing homework, the purposes of homework, parental involvement, and homework design. The research suggests that when teachers design homework to meet specific purposes and goals, more students complete their homework and benefit.
The Forgotten Voices in Homework: Views of Students Discusses student perceptions of homework. Research gaps are identified that show the lack of the student voice in homeworks' effectiveness. Encourages educators to continue to investigate homework through the student lens in terms of learning autonomy and meaning.
Parental Involvement in Homework Reviews research on parental involvement in homework. Shows that parental involvement influence student outcomes favorably through modeling, reinforcement, and instruction. Suggestions are offered to schools to help increase the role of parents in homework.
Homework Not On Rise Most American students spend less than an hour a day on homework, according to a pair of national studies. However, "there is this view in the popular media that there has been this terrible burden of homework on children, and that the homework is increasing," said Tom Loveless, the director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution. This article disputes that notion. (note: next link is related to this story).
Do Students Have Too Much Homework From the Brookings Institution. Detailed study that contradicts the view in the popular press that students have much more homework than in the past. According to data analyzed by the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings, the great majority of students at all grade levels now spend less than one hour studying on a typical day—an amount that has not changed substantially in at least twenty years. The research suggests that rather than having too much homework, children are not doing enough—a cause for concern because homework is correlated with school success.
Using Research to Answer Practical Questions About Homework More of a historical piece that provides background information about the definition of homework, public attitudes toward homework, and a listing of positive and negative aspects of homework. There is a strong correlation between the amount of homework older students complete and achievement.
Making Homework Matter Written by an English instructor, who notes that educators should re-examine their methodology and allow for students to be fully engaged in the learning process, including that of doing homework. Examples for activities are provided that she says will help prepare students for college.
Toward a 24/7 Learning Community This is part of a special section on teaching the digital community. Article includes information about school web sites, teacher-parent emails, use of the Internet to inform parents about grades and attendance, homework assignments, and webquests.
Practical Tips for Using Web-based Assessment Systems Article discusses a computer-based homework system. WebAssign, a web-based homework delivery, collection, grading, and recording system, can be used to enhance teaching and learning. Several faculty members discuss the ways in which they use the system.
Do I Have to Do My Homework: Using Technology to Create Meaningful Homework Assignments, Activities and Projects Discusses ways in which teachers can use technology to improve the quality of homework assignments. Includes are technology-based practice assignments, technology-based preparation assignments, technology-based extension assignments, and management of technology-based homework.
The Role of School Counselors in Homework Intervention Discusses the role of school counselors in homework intervention. Calls for counselors to take a prominent role in enhancing attitudes and skills that contribute to effective learning through homework. Advocates for adding a homework intervention component to the existing school counseling program.

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December 2003