Homework! Oh, Homework!I hate you! You stink!I wish I could wash you away in the sink,if only a bombwould explode you to bits.Homework! Oh, homework!You're giving me fits.
I'd rather take bathswith a man-eating shark,or wrestle a lionalone in the dark,eat spinach and liver,pet ten porcupines,than tackle the homework,my teacher assigns.
Homework! Oh, homework!you're last on my list,I simple can't seewhy you even exist,if you just disappearedit would tickle me pink.Homework! Oh, homework!I hate you! You stink!
Jack Prelutsky
When I started to read Cooper's article on the effeciacy of homework, somehow the only thing that came to my mind was that Prelutsky poem. Again, thank you mom for making me read. You and Dad made me literate enough to understand the difference between correlation and causation that lines like "The more homework high school students do, the higher their achievement levels" conveniently ignore. Students who do homework are, in my experience, the highest achievers. The three young ladies who consistently turn in their assignments first block every morning certainly are.
Furthermore, although some of the studies quoted by Cooper compare students who were given homework with those who were not, this does not solve the correlation vs. causation demo. Schools or teachers that assign more homework are those that would expect students to do it. Teachers who meet with an almost empty homework bin every morning and a gradebook filled with zeros every night may sooner or later become fed up and stop assigning homework, as even many of the most dedicated MTCs have done.
Not that I disagree with their findings, but I just enjoy playing the devil’s advocate a bit. In fact, I agree wholeheartedly that homework, especially during high school, will only increase achievement of those students motivated to actually do it. However, I am still curious about the negative effects of homework that the study fails to mention, specifically, I wonder how much homework serves to alienate those without strong work habits or support systems at home from school. What is the effect of homework on those who are assigned it, but never do it. Because that, right now, is the majority of my students.
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Your last point is an excellent one. Homework for those that never complete it has to be a negative thing. Does the consistent row of zeros in the gradebook deter these students from completing other work? Does it have an impact on motivation, work ethic, self-esteem? Is it better to reinforce the learning in class instead of relying on homework that is not going to be doen anyway?
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