In a review of studies published from 1987 to 2003, Cooper and his colleagues found that homework was linked to better test scores in high school and, to a lesser degree, in middle school.
Homework can indeed produce academic benefits, such as increased understanding and retention of the material, says Duke University social psychologist Harris Cooper, PhD, one of the nation's leading homework researchers. Spend more time practicing multiplication or studying Spanish vocabulary and you should get better at math or Spanish. In many ways, homework seems like common sense. Now, as schools are shifting to the new (and hotly debated) Common Core curriculum standards, educators, administrators and researchers are turning a fresh eye toward the question of homework's value.īut when it comes to deciphering the research literature on the subject, homework is anything but an open book. Meanwhile many teachers argue that take-home lessons are key to helping students learn. For as long as kids have been whining about doing their homework, parents and education reformers have complained that homework's benefits are dubious.
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