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Writing intervention with elementary students struggling with writing: examinin...
Hogemann, Julia; Cunha, Jennifer; Nunez, Jose Carlos; Vallejo, Guillermo; Rodriguez, Celestino; Rosário, PedroMany young students experience difficulties mastering writing, and are designated as students struggling with writing. Teacher feedback on writing is an educational tool suited to address this challenge, playing a pivotal role in promoting student proficiency in writing. The current study tests a writing intervention plus teacher feedback, over the course of 12 weeks. A quasi-experimental design with repeated m...
Online Homework Distraction Scale: A validation study
Xu, Jianzhong; Nunez, Jose Carlos; Cunha, Jennifer; Rosário, PedroBackground: Increasingly, postsecondary students enroll in distance learning courses and complete homework online, which extends their learning opportunities regardless of where they are. Online homework requires self-control from students to cope with conventional and tech-related distractors, however research on this topic is scarce. There is a need to develop an instrument to assess online homework distracti...
Does homework design matter? The role of homework's purpose in student mathemat...
Rosário, Pedro; Nunez, Jose Carlos; Vallejo, Guillermo; Cunha, Jennifer; Nunes, Tania; Mourao, Rosa; Pinto, RicardoThis study used a randomized pretest-posttest clustered design to examine the effect of 3 homework purposes (i.e., practice, preparation, and extension) on 6th graders' mathematics achievement and how this relationship was modulated by the amount of completed homework. A total of 27 mathematics teachers and their 638 students participated in this study. Once a week for six weeks, the teachers assigned tasks tha...