In: Journal of Educational Research, 2015, vol. 108, no. 5, p. 417-431
Parental involvement research has greatly expanded over the past decade, but findings are mixed, reflecting in part the conceptual and methodological limitations of many studies. On the basis of longitudinal questionnaire data from 1,685 sixth-grade students, the authors studied parental help with homework because it is the most common and most controversial type of parental involvement....
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In: Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie, 2008, vol. 22, no. 3-4, p. 233-246
This article presents a theoretical conceptualization of homework quality and distinguishes three perspectives on the evaluation of homework quality (students, teachers, observers). In the empirical part of the study, 1382 students from three Swiss cantons were administered achievement tests and questionnaires at the beginning and end of grade 8. The students’ teachers were also surveyed. A...
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In: Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006, vol. 98, no. 2, p. 448 – 456
To date, homework research has been only loosely tied to theories of educational psychology and has relied mainly on time-on-task measures. The two studies (414 and 1,501 eighth graders) presented in this paper provide support for a domain-specific, multilevel model that includes an expanded effort measure, motivational predictors (expectancy and value components), learning environment variables,...
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In: Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009, vol. 101, no. 1, p. 176-189
The study examines whether teachers’ homework objectives, implementation practices, and attitudes towards parental involvement are associated with the development of students’ homework effort, homework emotions, and achievement during grade 8. A total of 63 teachers (40 male, 23 female; mean teaching experience M = 17.5 years) of French as a second language and their 1,299 grade 8 students...
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In: Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2009, vol. 34, no. 1, p. 77-88
Using a data set specifically tailored to homework research, with a sample of 1,275 students from 70 classes in Switzerland, the association between homework and achievement in French as a second language was tested at three levels (class level, between-student level, within-student level). The strength and direction of the homework-achievement association depended on the homework indicator...
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In: Empirische Pädagogik, 2010, vol. 24, no. 1, p. 42-54
This article examines the availability of empirical findings that cast light on the teacher’s role in the context of homework. The determinants of homework behavior are considered in terms of teacher beliefs, on the one hand, and students’ individual abilities and characteristics, on the other. Gaps in the research are identified with respect to the potential influences of teacher training,...
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In: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Bildungswissenschaften, 2006, vol. 28, no. 2, p. 295-314
Students’ achievement gains have been linked to homework assignments (teacher level) and students’ conscientious homework behavior (student level). However, there are no empirical studies that empirically investigated the differences in homework behavior among students in different classes and the impact of structural features (e.g., course level, class size, region) on students’ homework...
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