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How do student prior achievement and homework behaviors relate to perceived par...
Nunez, Jose C.; Epstein, Joyce L.; Suarez, Natalia; Rosário, Pedro; Vallejo, Guillermo; Valle, AntonioThis study investigated how students' prior achievement is related to their homework behaviors (i.e., time spent on homework, homework time management, and amount of homework), and to their perceptions of parental involvement in homework (i.e., parental control and parental support). A total of 1250 secondary students from 7 to 10th grade participated in the study. Structural equation models were fitted to the ...
Parents' conceptions of their homework involvement in elementary school
Cunha, Jennifer; Rosário, Pedro; Macedo, Lucia; Nunes, Ana Rita; Fuentes, Sonia; Pinto, Ricardo; Suarez, NataliaBackground: Homework is a universal practice used in schools, and is commonly related to academic achievement. According to literature, parental homework involvement has positive and negative aspects, depending on parents' behaviors. Method: Assuming a phenomenographic perspective, this study examined 4th graders' parents' conceptions of their involvement in homework. With the purpose of mapping the parents' va...
Teachers' feedback on homework, homework-related behaviors, and academic achiev...
Carlos Nunez, Jose; Suarez, Natalia; Rosário, Pedro; Vallejo, Guillermo; Cerezo, Rebeca; Valle, AntonioThe authors intended to (a) identify the association between gender or grade level and teachers' homework (HW) feedback and (b) examine the relationship between teachers' HW feedback, HW-related behaviors (e.g., amount of HW completed), and academic achievement. Four hundred fifty-four students (Grades 5-12) participated in this study. The results showed that (a) at higher grade levels, there is a lower perceiv...
Homework motivation and engagement throughout compulsory education
Regueiro, Bibiana; Suarez, Natalia; Valle, Antonio; Nunez, Jose C.; Rosário, PedroThe present investigation examines changes in students' homework engagement and motivation as they advance to higher grade levels in Spanish compulsory education. The study takes into account the possible effect of prior academic achievement on students' homework engagement and motivation. Participants included 1257 students (ranging in age from 9 to 16 years) from four regions in northern Spain. Results show t...
The effects of teachers' homework follow-up practices on students' EFL performa...
Rosário, Pedro; Nunez, Jose C.; Vallejo, Guillermo; Cunha, Jennifer; Nunes, Tania; Suarez, Natalia; Fuentes, Sonia; Moreira, TaniaThis study analyzed the effects of five types of homework follow-up practices (i.e., checking homework completion; answering questions about homework; checking homework orally; checking homework on the board; and collecting and grading homework) used in class by 26 teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) using a randomized-group design. Once a week, for 6 weeks, the EFL teachers used a particular type o...