Homework is useless?
The only thing that comes to my mind is that homework is busy work, is perhaps not related to learning that counts, or is not “effective time on task.” Another possibility is that the homework, being spread over a variety of subjects, means that the amount of extra time on a particular subject is not significant enough to aid achievement in that subject or overall. With just these few possibilities, it seems that we need to know more to understand the effect, or non-effect, of homework on school achievement. The homework is a topic not common in the students because always is associated with hard working or something boring. But many professors think that homework is good for learn. So, exist many arguments for against or in favor about that. For example some people believe in the homework because is a way for force the students to make the extra work others think that this let practice that lessons in home and this allow that student memorize that matter.
In the other hand people think that homework is useless because maybe the students don’t make the homework yourself on the contrary, your friends or parents make it. Also think that homework produce stress in the students so doesn’t facilitates learning.
Harold Jarche (2006) said a point that is important to consider:
The only thing that comes to my mind is that homework is busy work, is perhaps not related to learning that counts, or is not “effective time on task.” Another possibility is that the homework, being spread over a variety of subjects, means that the amount of extra time on a particular subject is not significant enough to aid achievement in that subject or overall. With just these few possibilities, it seems that we need to know more to understand the effect, or non-effect, of homework on school achievement.[1]
This argument evidence that homework should be useful depends or the people because many students can’t advantage the homework because in your house’s have sounds and this distraction that don’t allow use the time for learn. And the school achievement is important because depends of the person the homework don’t is a good strategy for lean.
Finally we think in the homework like a strategy for the learn but actually exists other ways more effective for all types of learning and the world change and this means the education have to change for adapt to the environment.
[1] Is Homework Useless (2006). Recuperado el 11 de abril de 2011 de, http://secondlanguagewriting.com/explorations/Archives/2006/Nov/IsHomeworkUseless.html
It´s true in many cases the task is not being used with the better, but the children should practice and their parents ought to be searching for the future benefits.
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