Assertion: homework | /r/HasProperty | assigned
Facets:
value: maybe
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: If a teacher who is assigning the homework can’t provide a clear rationale behind this question, then maybe the homework shouldn’t be assigned.
text: Homework can also be assigned even if therapists are not physically present with the patients being treated.
text: In grades six through eight, for example, homework is capped at an hour a night and can only be assigned two to three nights a week.
text: Compared to other parents, these parents are more likely to say too much homework is assigned (39% vs. 9%), that what is assigned is just busywork (57% vs. 36%), and that homework gets in the way of their family spending time together (51% vs. 15%).
text: It sounds relatively simple, until you consider the way homework is assigned.
text: Pressman admits that homework is less about the way homework is assigned and more about the way parents administer it.
text: Data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress suggests that in both 1984 and 1994, about one-third of nine-year-olds and one-quarter of thirteen-and seventeen-year-olds reported being assigned no homework at all, with an additional 5 percent to 10 percent admitting they did not do homework that was assigned.
text: A national survey of parents conducted by the polling agency Public Agenda, in October, 2000, revealed that 64 percent of parents felt their child was getting "about the right amount" of homework, 25 percent felt their child was getting "too little" homework, and only 10 percent felt "too much homework" was being assigned.
text: Homework continues to be assigned – in ever greater quantities – despite the absence of evidence that it’s necessary or even helpful in most cases.
text: It isn’t hard to think of other explanations for why successful students might be in classrooms where more homework is assigned – or why they might spend more time on it than their peers do.
text: If homework is assigned, there is a reliance on the student, their parents, or their guardians to locate resources that can help them understand the content.
text: And how much homework should be assigned?
text: There are almost always other explanations for why successful students might be in classrooms where more homework is assigned – let alone why these students might take more time with their homework than their peers do.
text: In still other cases, a third variable – for example, being born into a more affluent and highly educated family – might be associated with getting higher test scores and with doing more homework (or attending the kind of school where more homework is assigned).
text: and also when students and teachers are asked to estimate how much homework was assigned.
text: In addition to assessing what homework practices are beneficial, they have been able to describe how and when homework is assigned.
text: So why does homework continue to be assigned and accepted?
text: The idea that homework must be assigned is the premise, not the conclusion -- and it's a premise that's rarely examined by educators.
text: These little details should be given much attention when deciding what homework should be assigned to make sure that all efforts will be worth the prize.