Homework, the greatest tool for success!

Homework, The tool for success.

“The typical student, even in high school does not spend more than an hour per day on homework” (Loveless NP). However, there is an ongoing dispute between critics on whether a lot of homework has more negative effects than positive effects, and vice versa. Homework is the greatest tool for student success, whether they realize it or not, homework is the key to success, it may not be to fun, but it has many positive effects. Homework improves academic success, it develops non-school skills, and it helps involve parents.

Homework attributes to student success. According to Harris Cooper, a comparison of homework with no homework shows that the average student in a class with homework assigned would score 23 percentile scores higher on tests of the knowledge assessed than students in classes with no homework assigned (4). Cooper’s meta analysis concluded in the early elementary grades, there wasn’t a clear-cut agreement on the benefits of homework. However, in grades 7-9, the percentile gain doubled to twelve from a percentile gain of 6 in grades 4-6. Homework had the greatest effect on high school students grades tenth through twelfth with a percentile gain of 24. The study suggest that as homework’s difficulty and amount increased,, students percentile gains increased(5). The longer it takes to complete homework, the more the benefits increase. Another positive effect of homework is that it leads to better retention of knowledge learned in the school day. This means that if a student is assigned quality homework, it will help the student remember what he or she learned during school. ”Students in the U.S spend less time studying content than other students in different countries (Marzano and Pi...

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...chool day. There are many skills you will learn from doing homework, thoses skills are, developing self-discipline and good habits like self-study, student responsibility, perseverance, time management, self-confidence, feeling of accomplishment, raising of one’s self worth. Homework extends learning beyond the school day which is a very important characteristic. By now you should realize that large amounts of homework has more pros than cons. Sure it may deny you of some leisure-time and community practices but you will learn to manage your time and in the end you will thank yourself for going through hours of grueling work. We just need to pay attention on improving it’s design and content! ( Gill and Schlossman N.P). What's fours years of homework compared to a whole lifetime? Not much at all. So do your homework and reap the benefits!