Assertion: homework's time | /r/HasProperty | spent on homework
Facets:
value: during school months
type: TEMPORAL
value: during weekdays
type: TEMPORAL
value: in cooper’s initial research review
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: For all three of the correlations, higher values represent a higher correlation between time spent on homework and poor conduct.
text: Time spent on homework should be appropriate to the child’s grade level.
text: In the upper grades, the more time spent on homework the greater the achievement gains.
text: Currently, the United States has the second-highest disparity between time spent on homework by students of low socioeconomic status and time spent by their more-affluent peers out of the 34 OECD-member nations participating in the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) (see Figure 2).
text: (Then help your child keep track of the time actually spent on homework.)
text: For high school students, the benefits of homework increased as the time spent on homework increased, up to about two hours of homework a day, but any time spent beyond that showed decreased benefits.
text: For junior high school students, the benefits of homework increased as the time spent on homework increased, up to 1 to 2 hours of homework a night, and then decreased.
text: There was no relationship whatsoever between time spent on homework and course grade, and “no substantive difference in grades between students who complete homework and those who do not.
text: What’s more, he says, time spent on homework is time not spent doing important activities like play, rest, and family time.
text: For students in primary grades, the correlation between time spent on homework and achievement is near zero.
text: Also, there was no relationship between the time spent on homework and how much the student enjoyed it.
text: Time spent on homework should align with the student’s age – a short time spent in elementary school, up to 90 minutes for middle school or junior high aged students and between 1½ and 2 ½ hours per night (not per subject!)
text: Previous research, including a 2006 analysis of homework studies, found a link between time spent on homework and achievement but also found it was much stronger in secondary school versus elementary school.
text: Another study, this one in 2012, found no relationship between time spent on homework and grades but did find a positive link between homework and performance on standardized tests.
text: When Cooper and his associates looked at recent studies in which the time spent on homework was reported by students, and then compared them with studies in which that estimate was provided by their parents, the results were quite different.
text: If the raw correlation between achievement (test scores or grades) and time spent on homework in Cooper’s initial research review is “nearly nonexistent” for grades 3 through 5, it remains extremely low for grades 6 through 9.
text: For any number of reasons, one might expect to find a reasonably strong association between time spent on homework and test scores.
text: In some countries more time spent on homework was associated with higher scores; in others, it was not.
text: When Cooper and his colleagues reviewed a new batch of studies in 2006, they once again found that “the mean correlation between time spent on homework and achievement was not significantly different from zero for elementary school students
text: Other studies have looked at the relationship between holding a job and student’s time use in discretionary activities, like sleep, media consumption, and time spent on homework.
text: We began with a general sample of 2,575 full-time high school students between the ages of 15 and 18 from the ATUS, restricting the sample to their answers about time spent on homework during weekdays and school months (September to May).
text: Our analysis of ATUS could not fully explain this gap in time spent on homework, especially among racial groups.
text: A review of research by Duke University Professor Harris Cooper found that for elementary school students, "the average correlation between time spent on homework and achievement … hovered around zero.
text: Optimal time per night spent on homework varies with grade level.
text: For the students in the middle age range (11-13 years), more time spent on homework was associated with higher levels of achievement only up to one to two hours; more than this didn't lead to any more improvement.
text: As Finland is regularly used as a positive example for its outstanding educational standards and practices, this highlights a failed link between time spent on homework and academic achievement.
text: Also, there was no relationship between the time spent on homework and how much the student enjoyed it.