11.15.06
More homework lowers performance
Check out this article that suggests more homework actually hurts students. The article states that more work strains strains a students limited time (homework, athletics, extracurricular activities, chores), and creates more tension in the home (Decreases the amount of quality family time).
Undue focus on homework as a national quick-fix, rather than a focus on issues of instructional quality and equity of access to opportunity to learn, may lead a country into wasted expenditures of time and energy,” LeTendre says.
But suprisingly, this article suggests that testing improves memory. There is a fine line here. The article states that the when students are actively retrieving a concept they boost their recollection of related issues. But too much homework is bad because it becomes repetitious. The conclusion I’m reading out of all this is practical application helps translate information into knowledge. So having homework is good, but if it becomes overly repetitious the brain shuts off, or overly difficult, then perhaps the student may shut down.