Stop The Stress: Research on the Negative Effects of Too Much Homework In today’s age, students consider homework more of an annoyance than school bullies and cafeteria mystery meat (Hancock 1). How much homework students receive each night is a topic that has been getting a great deal of attention lately. In a survey of 79 sophomores at Nerinx Hall High School on March 26th, 2015, fifty six percent of the participants’ responded saying they did two or more hours of homework the night before. It is also interesting to note that only six percent responded saying they completed an hour or less than one hour of homework the night before (Mannion). While doing two or more hours of homework each night seems like an achievable task, teachers need
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According to the article “The Motivational Benefits of Homework”, the reason homework is so essential is because it plays a key role in the development of a child’s motivation to achieve (Bempechat 2). Another reason homework is important for a child’s education is because homework assignments provide time and background teens need to establish study habits that are valuable for learning. Some of these important skills include teaching teenagers that it is acceptable to make mistakes and the importance of effort (Bempechat 3). Homework also gives students an opportunity to reinforce their knowledge of what they have learned in class (Hancock 1). Often when students pay attention to the class lesson they will find they do not truly understand the material until they have completed the homework assessment for …show more content…
The book, The Homework Myth, suggests that teachers should show or tell the advantages of the homework they are about to assign, before actually assigning it to the students (Khon 48). This “busy work” often takes away from the material that students actually enjoy learning about, and has little value in itself. It is essential for teachers to understand that students have lives outside school, therefore assigning homework that takes up more time than it is worth is an unproductive use of the students’ time. By reducing the length of assignments and prioritizing homework in specific subjects, such as Math, Science, and English, it gives student more time to learn (Bempechat 10). While it takes some students thirty minutes to complete assignments, it takes others over ninety minutes to complete the same assignments. Teachers should understand that each student is unique and therefore learns differently (Bempechat
According to the article “The Motivational Benefits of Homework”, the reason homework is so essential is because it plays a key role in the development of a child’s motivation to achieve (Bempechat 2). Another reason homework is important for a child’s education is because homework assignments provide time and background teens need to establish study habits that are valuable for learning. Some of these important skills include teaching teenagers that it is acceptable to make mistakes and the importance of effort (Bempechat 3). Homework also gives students an opportunity to reinforce their knowledge of what they have learned in class (Hancock 1). Often when students pay attention to the class lesson they will find they do not truly understand the material until they have completed the homework assessment for …show more content…
The book, The Homework Myth, suggests that teachers should show or tell the advantages of the homework they are about to assign, before actually assigning it to the students (Khon 48). This “busy work” often takes away from the material that students actually enjoy learning about, and has little value in itself. It is essential for teachers to understand that students have lives outside school, therefore assigning homework that takes up more time than it is worth is an unproductive use of the students’ time. By reducing the length of assignments and prioritizing homework in specific subjects, such as Math, Science, and English, it gives student more time to learn (Bempechat 10). While it takes some students thirty minutes to complete assignments, it takes others over ninety minutes to complete the same assignments. Teachers should understand that each student is unique and therefore learns differently (Bempechat